Mystic News

A passenger who was seriously hurt in last week's train crash on the Bridgeport-Fairfield border filed a lawsuit Friday against Metro-North Railroad, The Hartford Courant reported .

Mystic A "March Against Monsanto" will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday to express support for a bill pending in the General Assembly that would require labeling of genetically engineered foods.

Some members of the Planning and Zoning Commission raised concerns about a proposal Tuesday night that would expand the permitted uses allowed in the town's manufacturing zones in an attempt to reuse vacant mill space.

Thames Valley Communications announced this week that it has finished upgrades that will bring faster Internet service to its coverage area including Gales Ferry, Groton, Mystic, Stonington and Pawcatuck.

Aaren Simoncini started small when he opened Beer'd Brewing in Stonington in late 2012.

The Mystic Moonrun will be held at the Harp & Hound on May 26th at 7:00. Registration at 6:15 to start.

James Repass of Boston, MA, president of National Corridors Initiative, a group dedicated to the modernization of our country's rail service, surveys the site of Friday's derailment and collision in Bridgeport, Conn.

Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic Village of Stonington. Open daily: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission: $24, seniors and college students $22, youth $15; age 5 and younger, free.

Three nursing homes in southeastern Connecticut face state fines of more than $1,000 for lapses in care cited by the Department of Public Health.

The Mystic teenager charged last week with causing as much as $100,000 of damage to an unoccupied Pawcatuck home, has been arrested again, this time for allegedly breaking into a Mystic garage and stealing beer.

The state's first Civil War Naval Encampment re-enactment will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 1-2 at Mystic Seaport.

Children at a storytelling workshop wear what they imagine would be the expression on their characters' faces during the most exciting moment of their story, for a picture being taken by Ann Shapiro, director of the Connecticut Storytelling Center at Connecticut College.

This month, we've been touring easy-to-get-to destinations in Connecticut as part of our One Tank Trips series .

The beer industry in Connecticut is booming. You don't have to actually hit the Connecticut Beer trail to get a taste of some local brew.

Go ahead. Sit down in Mystic's Oyster Club and slurp down a few on the half-shell with your newest pal, the world-famous author.

Lisa Tepper Bates of Stonington, the executive director of the Mystic Area Shelter & Hospitality Inc., has been named the new executive director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.

Patch reader Donna McHenry found a shark, which she said appeared to be dead, washed up on the far south west side of Sachuset Point Sunday.

The proposal calls for a two-story addition on the building's northwest corner that would provide 11 more residential units and expand the facility from 48,000 to 54,000 square feet.

On Wednesday June 12, opening night of Hill-Stead Museum's prestigious Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, winners and selected readers from eight Connecticut poetry programs will gather for the annual Fresh Voices reading in the historic Sunken Garden.

In the back, Sofia Priebe - at 4 feet, 8 inches - is the second-tallest girl in her class at Mystic Ballet.