Middletown News

Opposition to the Army Corps of Engineers' selection of an 88-acre parcel at Middle Street and Boardman Lane, near the Cromwell line, is stiffening with each passing week.

Historic Main Street will be the backdrop for a motion picture this weekend. Two scenes from "Once More with Feeling," a production by PHC Productions LLC, will be filmed Saturday.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro sent a letter to Pete Geren, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Army, expressing residents' trepidation with putting a military base on a property with an active farm and several ...

Monday evening about 15 residents met on Warwick Street to discuss the "jewel of the waterfront," otherwise known as Harbor Park.

The owner of a Middletown -based company has bought the WFSB-Channel 3 Broadcast House at the heart of Hartford's Constitution Plaza and says he plans to demolish the now-vacant structure and erect a ...

Visiting Simsbury got the better of Post 75 in a 4-1 win at Palmer Field. Middletown's Kevin Brostek gets the loss, but coach Tim D'Aquila said Brostek did well on the mound.

Clockwise from bottom, co-owner Joe Geremia, co-owner Phil Banning and greenhouse manager Paul Barnes at Geremia Farms in Wallingford.

A fire in a vacant house interrupted city firefighters during contract discussions in City Hall Wednesday.

He crept into young women's apartments while they slept and would wake them, brandishing a handgun.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell announces Thursday at the Community Health Center in Middletown that the state has received more than 10,000 calls and 3,000 applications since the Charter Oak Health Plan opened July 1. The ...

A jeep struck a pedestrian crossing Main Street to John Square Tuesday, city police said.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell announces Thursday at the Community Health Center in Middletown that the state has received more than 10,000 calls and 3,000 applications since the Charter Oak Health Plan opened July 1. The ...

In recent years, the downtown area of Middletown, Connecticut has come a very long way.

The common council late Wednesday approved a new five-year contract for city firefighters - in a vote that was delayed as department members rushed to fight a two-alarm blaze in a vacant house.

The new pact for Middletown firefighters and fire officers will increase wages by 17.7 percent over five years, promote four firefighters to lieutenant and bring in four new firefighters. The latter was an economic sticking point for some council members.

The raises would cost an estimated $1.05 million over the five years. The cost would decrease if several veteran firefighters retire, as expected.

By News Channel 8's Jamie Muro Posted July 16, 2008 10:30 PM Middletown _ There is opposition to the project because some say it would disrupt a residential area.

A head-on collision between a minivan and a four-door sedan on Route 66 seriously injured both drivers, a fire official said.

Gas pangs at the pumps, coupled with Utah's move to put most of its state workers on a four-day week, are driving more Connecticut cities and towns to reconsider whether a similar schedule makes sense for them.

Wharfside Commons was this city's most anticipated housing development when it opened a year ago on Ferry Street in the North End, the poorest street in the poorest section of Middletown.

Local officials in several towns are considering a switch to a four-day workweek to cut down on rising fuel costs that are eating into municipal budgets.

There must be something the air in Durham and Middlefield, because three young residents of these quiet New England towns were among the top fundraisers for this year's March of Dimes walk.