Bridgewater News

Connecticut's centuries-old fierce defense of home rule influences many aspects of state life, from the variable quality of towns' schools to our equally variable forms of town government.

The Brookfield Museum and Historical Society will host a family-oriented open house at the Gurski Farmstead on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Activities will include blacksmithing demonstrations, a working exhibit of antique farm machinery, and a tour of the Merwin Brook Cemetery.

People are taking notice of one former Avon Old Farms School pitcher this season at Wheaton College.

Voters in Bridgewater, Roxbury and Washington will go to the polls Tuesday, May 8, to decide on Region 12's proposed $21.35 million education budget for fiscal year 2012-13. The proposed budget would represent a 0.46 percent increase, or $97,703 more than the $21.26 million budget for this year.

Bridgewater Connecticut , Connecticut Crime , Elizabeth Gough , Elizabeth Gough Heath , Elizabeth Heath , Elizabeth Heath Murder , John Heath , John Heath Arrested , John Heath Charged , Newtown Connecticut , A 68-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife, who vanished days after he filed for divorce three decades ago.

Police in western Connecticut have charged a 68-year-old man with murdering his wife in 1984.