Groton News

Two weeks after Lavon Pemberton exchanged gunfire with another man in Groton, he was shot in the stomach while walking down a Springfield, Mass.

James D. Trapp, 36, of 8 Larch Road was charged Tuesday with violation of a protective order and tampering with a witness.

New London police officers protest planned layoffs outside City Hall before the city council meeting Tues.

His predecessor cut state government's tourism promotion account down to nothing, but despite a huge state budget deficit Gov.

Dwight Mitchell, 33, of 11 Bragaw St., New London, was charged Saturday with first-degree failure to appear in court.

Cindy Morrison has been named the new executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Southeastern Connecticut, which has its offices at the Thames River Apartments on Crystal Avenue in New London.

Town police have announced several road closures and traffic delays on Monday as a result of the Memorial Day parades in Noank and downtown Mystic.

The 377-foot Virginia-class submarine arrived just before 11 a.m. Friday. It will be commissioned on June 2. Ship commissioning is an act that places a ship into active service.

KITTERY, Maine -- Navy officials said this morning that it is too early to tell whether the nuclear submarine USS Miami, which burned for more than eight hours before being extinguished this morning, will ever sail again.

2.A The Groton Base U.S. Submarine Veterans will hold a Memorial Day Service and USS Scorpion remembrance from 11 a.m. until noon on Monday at the National Submarine Veterans Memorial East in Groton.

Seventeen people with ties to the military are becoming U.S. citizens in a special naturalization ceremony at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton.

Collins, a consultant at the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and the former superintendent of the Waterford Public Schools, is also the husband of a retired Groton teacher who has met many members of the staff at social and professional functions over the years.

Charter Oak Federal Credit Union has received final approval from Waterford officials to build a nearly 65,000-square-foot branch office and headquarters complex on Route 85.

The Board of Education tonight will again vote on the transfer and consolidation of the school district's finance department to the city's. On April 26, school board members voted 5-2 - without discussion and against it's own finance committee's recommendation- to transfer the district's finance department to the city.

Words from a Ray Charles hit song summed up the sentiment expressed by the Groton Utilities Commission Wednesday morning when it considered a letter from Ledyard Mayor John Rodolico on behalf of the Bluff Point to Preston trail committee.

Kittery, Maine - The Groton-based USS Miami nuclear-powered attack submarine caught fire at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard late Wednesday afternoon and four firefighters were injured trying to extinguish the blaze, according to the Portsmouth Herald.

A The Groton Board of Education voted Wednesday to name former Waterford Superintendent Randall Collins as interim superintendent in Groton.

Groton Acting Superintendent Mary Anne Butler has been hired to be the new assistant superintendent of instructional services, Windsor Public Schools announced Wednesday.

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care Serves as Host to Third Annual Memorial Day Remembrance Event at Naval Submarine Base in Groton, CT WHAT: A A For a third consecutive year, VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, the nation's leading end-of-life care provider, will serve as host to a Memorial Day Remembrance event at the Naval Submarine Base New London in ... (more)

A Eastern Connecticut State University has announced that 23 Groton and Mystic residents have graduated.