Manchester News

Submitted by Tana Parseliti , Downtown Manchester Special Services District, on 2009-11-23.   Tana Parseliti Students from the Manchester High School Honor Society appear as costumed characters during the Holiday on Main Downtown Celebration.

An Essex architectural firm will host four workshops on the possible expansion of the Mary Cheney Library.

A Hartford man has accepted a plea deal that will send him to prison for 20 years for shooting another man to death during a road rage incident last year.

A former Manchester man - who a judge said grew up in a "sexually dysfunctional" family - was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl from the time she was 9 until she was 16.

Religious Life Submitted by Unitarian Universalist Society: East, Pamela Fine, on 2009-11-20.   On Sunday, Dec.

Don't forget to give blood to the American Red Cross' blood bank on Friday, Nov.

A year after finding a Middletown man mortally injured and unresponsive after being struck by car in a motel parking lot, police on Saturday arrested the man's girlfriend.

The town has been named one of the top digital communities in the nation, in large part because of the wide range of online services that connect residents to local government.

It began with a scene that plays out dozens of times a day across the capital city.

Biz Buzz Submitted by Kathi Sanborn on 2009-11-16.   Mack's Wine and Liquors celebrated its grand opening and ribbon cutting on Wednesday, Nov.

Police are looking for two men who held up a gas station at gunpoint Sunday. Police said the two men entered the Getty Gas Station at 886 Hartford Road at about 6:40 p.m. and demanded money from the cash register.

The Connecticut Army National Guard is deploying 700 soldiers this weekend to the Middle East in the largest single deployment of its troops since the Korean War.

Health Notes Submitted by Rosemary Martocchio, Eastern Connecticut Health Network, on 2009-11-13.   Johanna Heidtman, MMH Auxiliary Scholarship chairwoman, accepts a $15,000 donation from Auxiliary President Harriet Haslett for the Auxiliary's traditional scholarship fund.

Lured by kin who had crossed the sea before them and the promise of a better life, textile workers from Northern Ireland flowed into this silk-making center from about 1890 to 1930.

Health Notes Submitted by Amy Lantaigne, Eastern Connecticut Health Network, on 2009-11-13.   Eastern Connecticut Health Network's new, state-of-the-art cancer center, expected to be completed by the summer of 2010, will be named in honor of the late John A. DeQuattro.

Police charged two men with gun crimes over the weekend. About 2 a.m. Sunday, witnesses contacted police and reported seeing a man brandishing a sawed-off shotgun.

A woman was seriously injured when she was struck by a car while crossing Buckland Street Tuesday night, police said.

A local man who was hurt in a collision with a police cruiser has sued the town and the former officer who was driving the cruiser.

A box of antique firefighting equipment that a Manchester resident took to fire headquarters on Center Street Sunday afternoon ended up containing another kind of antique that caused a bit of a stir.

Town residents may bring electronic devices and paperwork to West Hartford 's town yard on Saturday for recycling and shredding.