Layton News

Making music for a good cause can become habit forming. And the Somers Dream Orchestra has gotten into the good habit of performing in Newton every Christmas season for the benefit of the Karen Ann Quinlan Foundation and the SCCC Foundation.

John S. "Jack" Fountain, left, his brother Charles H. and their friend J. Martin "Sparky" Couse Jr.

When Brian and Jackie Waldron purchased the Layton Hotel bar and restaurant seven years ago, they were reaching for the brass ring in the American Dream.

A freshman Republican lawmaker resigned because his wife sent 'an offensive and racist' email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, a GOP official acknowledged Monday.