Branford News

Putting The "Thanks!" In Thanksgiving Religious Life Submitted by Nadine Jerbi, Event Organizer, on 2009-11-24.   Valley Shore Assembly of God's Paul Olearnick Fundraiser raised over $28,500, which included raffle prize money, in the weeks before Thanksgiving.

Branford College Dean Daniel Tauss will resign at the end of the year, he announced in an e-mail to all Branford students Tuesday afternoon.

A Connecticut man who owns several bars and strip clubs has pleaded guilty to failing to pay federal income taxes for more than a decade.

In 2001, six eastern Connecticut artists joined forces to do a little promotion, opening their studios to the public on the same weekend.

First Selectman Anthony "Unk" DaRos took the oath of office today at 8:15 a.m., saying he wants to start early - because there remains a great deal of work to be done in Branford.

Meals. Bedtime. Discipline. The reasons parents clash over the kids are endless, especially now that more unemployed dads are filling in for back-to-work moms as the bad economy grinds through a second year.

The Connecticut Army National Guard is deploying 700 soldiers this weekend to the Middle East in the largest single deployment of its troops since the Korean War.

" I really love WNPR and I want to make sure that none of my favorite programs are cut due to our recent economic climate.

Ted Kennedy Jr. , son of the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, is used to being in the spotlight and under the microscope as a member of one of the world's most famous families.

Nearly two dozen vehicles, a 20-foot sailboat, a piano, computer equipment, and odds and ends will go to the highest bidders during an auction Saturday.

The old 1920s standard "Nobody knows you when You're Down and Out" is Dave and Kim Fry's theme song these days.

A man that led police on a tri-town pursuit chase in a stolen vehicle was finally arrested in New Haven.

Meals. Bedtime. Discipline. The reasons parents clash over the kids are endless, especially now that more unemployed dads are filling in for back-to-work moms as the bad economy grinds through a second year.

North Branford political leaders say they've solved the mystery of all the campaign signs in town that disappeared.

Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRUCE VETRE, 45, of Guilford, a former Business Manager at Shoreline Mitsubishi in Branford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, ...

Every day is the Day of the Dead and Halloween for Cathee Shultz and J.D. Healy.

Branford fifth-grader Marshall Borrus is home with a fever. He goes to the the Francis Walsh Intermediate School which is reporting an elevated level of absences due to illness but the school remains open.

Beyond the lip of Branford's Stony Creek Quarry, with its sheer rock walls stepped in angular terraces several stories high, eons of geologic history are visible.

The latest numbers show that one in five American children has had a flu-like illness this month alone.

At 7:11 p.m. Thursday, firefighters were called to Branford College to put out a fire.