Colchester News

The Commercial Record reported this week that contruction has begun on a new tractor retail store at a 23-acre site.

A Connecticut man who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $730,000 from a Washington law firm has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Over the past week, you've flooded the inbox with pictures of flooding. You showed us roads that looked more like rivers, and you found parks that resembled ponds.

Shiesha I. Small, 24, of 93 State Pier Road was charged Tuesday with second-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor, interfering with an emergency call and disorderly conduct.

Raymond Freemer, 42, 10 Georgianna St. was charged Thursday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and failure to drive right.

Evangelia Leo Mcilrath, 65, of 22 Benham Road was charged Sunday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and making an improper turn.

State Police Troopers from Troop C in Tolland, Troop D in Danielson, Troop E. in Montville and Troop K in Colchester received awards for service during a ceremony June 3, 2013, at the Connecticut State Police Training Academy in Meriden.

A Colchester couple tried to buy a house with a fake check! It's so crazy! They showed up on closing day at the attorney's office with a check that was literally peeling apart.

An early morning blaze on May 26 destroyed a two-story home in East Haddam . The Haddam Volunteer Fire Company responded mutual aid to a fully involved structure fire on Stony Brook Drive shortly after 4 a.m. The homeowners escaped without injury but the house was a complete loss.

Liskow is an award-winning novelist who will appear at Books & Boos in Colchester this Saturday afternoon, June 1st, to discuss his latest release, The Night Has 1000 Eyes .

Teachers' Memorial Middle School music teacher Elisha Millerd Lewis was named Thursday, May 30, 2013, as the Norwich Public Schools' Teacher of the Year.

A team of five students from Edwin O. Smith High School in Storrs won the 22nd annual Connecticut High School Geography Challenge on Tuesday, May 21, at The University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Nancy Stula is leaving her job as director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum to become executive director of the William Benton Museum of Art in Storrs.

State police are in the final stages of a move to consolidate eastern Connecticut emergency dispatchers into a newly revamped facility at the Troop C police barracks in Tolland.

Officials say the tree toppled on a group of people during a Memorial Day outing Monday near Day Pond State Park.

One person is dead and one had to be airlifted by Lifestar to the hospital after a tree fell on a group of people in a wooded area near Day Pond State Park in Colchester.