Easton News

The upcoming town meeting is going to the animals. Literally. Although a meeting was originally scheduled for Monday to consider whether to build a memorial on the Easton Library Green to the Sept.

Cohen and her husband Rick Levin finally finished building their dream home at 46 Compo Mill Cove.

Fifth-grade schoolteacher Maria Corti bid farewell to her 76-foot Norway Spruce on Tuesday in Easton, Connecticut.

The 76-foot-tall Norway spruce that was set up early Thursday morning in New York City's Rockefeller Center has hometown roots.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 1998. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas? You might not think so, considering it's only November.

Two wallets were reported stolen from shopping carts at Stop and Shop, 1160 Kings Highway Cutoff, in separate incidences this past week police said.

Earlier this year, the public was invited to Bridgeport's nonprofit City Lights Gallery to get to know the artists who are ensconced at the city's old American Fabrics Co.

While IRS agents were interviewing James Botti in his Shelton office on July 14, 2006, the developer's nimble but elderly father deftly moved $1 million in cash out of the building and into the roof overhang at his home.

Voter turnout isn't setting any records here today. With four hours left in balloting, Democratic Registrar of Voters Nick Soares said about 4 p.m. that turnout was around the 1,500 mark out of 5,227 registered, and said of the final total that he "would be shocked if it were over 40 percent." The headline race for first selectman features two ...

From left, Jenna Linn of Monroe, Betty Ann Pjura and her sister Kim DiCicco, both of Shelton, ride the trails behind Pee Wee Horse Farm in Easton.

With his generous spirit, maybe Peter Hanson would understand the standoff between the Planning and Zoning Commission and the 9/11 Memorial Committee, which for two years has planned a lasting tribute in town to all the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks -- and, most particularly, Hanson himself, his wife, Sue Kim, and their 2-year-old daughter, ...

Priority groups for the first batch of H1N1 vaccine have been changed, according to the town's Health Department, and two more days to pre-register have been added.

About 350 people made appointments for the town's first H1N1 vaccine clinic Friday, but that didn't mean a long wait.

Assistant Fire Chief Christopher Tracy pressed a pike-edged crowbar into the tiny crack along the frame of a metal door.

A Stratford man has been charged with driving drunk with his two young children in the car after an accident on Route 59 here.

Candidates for first and second selectmen faced off Wednesday at the Easton Public Library in the first of two debates scheduled before the Nov.

After a six-month search for a new superintendent, the Region 9 Board of Education unanimously appointed Michael Cicchetti to the position.

A Connecticut man whose son died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is criticizing officials in his hometown for taking too long in deciding on a site for a proposed 9/11 memorial.

See who's got their eye on a plump one, from Hugh Jackman and his family to Christina Aguilera and son Max! 1 of 7 Next EASY THERE! During a recent trip to Silverman's Farm in Easton, Conn., the Wolverine Hugh Jackman put on a show of strength and expertly juggled two pumpkins while enjoying a day off with his family, including son Oscar ...

P eople frequently ask me to recommend horse barns that offer trail rides. You'd think in a state as horse-centric as Connecticut, there'd be lots of such places.