East Lyme News

East Lyme - A federal stimulus grant intended to help the sagging economy could give a boost to sagging herring populations at the same time.

A reader has asked me to write about the legendary Golden Spur. This amusement park was in its heyday when trolleys were the last word in public transportation in early years of the 20th century.

Old Lyme - The Old Lyme Board of Selectmen has decided to volunteer to consolidate its probate court with East Lyme and Montville's rather than with towns in the Lower Connecticut Valley Selectmen's Association.First Selectman Timothy Griswold said the association's nine- or 10-town court consolidation would create too large a ...

Felia Williams, 24, of 5 Kenyon Drive, Waterford, was charged Saturday with breach of peace and third-degree assault.

State Sen. Andrea L. Stillman conducted a live chat on theday.com Tuesday. Here are a some excerpts from that conversation: Question: Recently the attorney general indicated he was investigating the rise in gasoline prices while there is a glut of both crude and gasoline and a decline in demand.

As people at East Lyme High School's commencement ceremony huddled under umbrellas and graduates wiped water from their seats, Superintendent Paul Smotas said there was a fitting theme for the Class of 2009: water.

Stonington - A McDonald's restaurant is coming to the new Stop & Shop development on Route 2 in Pawcatuck.On Monday, representatives of McDonald's and the developer of the site, READCO of Old Lyme, met with town officials to talk about the 3,839-square foot restaurant.Wayne Fraser, the development manager for READCO, said Tuesday that plans are ...

A former employee of the Microtel Inn & Suites in Montville was arraigned Friday on charges that he embezzled $39,363 from the hotel's weekly deposits.

In the long hours of speechifying this month that marked the end of the Connecticut legislature's regular session - in which the General Assembly failed to pass a budget in the face of an $8.7 billion deficit - one theme continually appeared.

Dillon Moltz had a decision to make Friday, one he said he was pretty easy. The choices? Attend his high school graduation ceremony at Waterford High School or go racing at Stafford Motor Speedway.

A woman puts oil in her car as she gases up at a Chevron station in Beaverton, Ore., last Friday.

A Stratford man accused of twice robbing the Dime Bank in the New London Shopping mall last year was charged today with a third bank robbery in East Lyme.

A Bridgeport man was charged today with robbing the Citizens Bank at Flanders Plaza last year.

A highway cut on I-95 shows a hillside composed of metamorphic rock with an "instrusion," the lighter band of rock created when molten material flowed into a fissure in the base rock.

A typical day for Jennifer Rogers starts at 3 a.m. While most of her fellow seniors at the Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Regional Vocational-Technical High School are still sleeping, Rogers is on her way to her job at the Flanders Bakeshop in East Lyme.

Though New Orleans is more than a thousand miles away from Union Baptist Church, Robert James, the church's youth director, believes a mission trip there will help people realize that they can help their community as well.

Submitted by Dana Rogers on 2009-06-08.   Girl Scouts of Connecticut's Camp Pattagansett in East Lyme will offer girls of all ages the chance to learn and grow this summer! Come see what all the excitement is about at an Open House Event on Thursday, June 11 from 5:30-7:30 pm.

As municipalities scramble to best position themselves for the coming overhaul of the probate court system, towns such as Old Lyme are shopping for allies.

On or about, May 1, 2009, the Connecticut State Police Statewide Fugitive Task Force began an arrest warrant roundup initiative focusing on arrest warrants being held by the Troop E Barracks in Montville .

A quiet shoreline town known for its safety is on alert for some thieves behind at least 50 burglaries.