North Stonington News

Lyme and North Stonington will participate in National Trails Day and Connecticut Trails Day on Saturday with hikes in those towns that are among 193 being held statewide this weekend.

Nakiranda Percy, 12, a member of the Destiny Africa Children's Choir, performs Thursday with 19 other members for students at North Stonington Elementary School.

North Stonington William Hixson will lead a hike Saturday through the 75-acre Fowler Grindstone preserve as part of the state Forest and Park Trails Day celebration.

North Stonington The town will hold its annual meeting tonight in the North Stonington Elementary School multi-purpose room, but will not vote or approve next fiscal year's budget.

Main Street and Route 2 was dotted with spectators, some sitting in beach chairs while others were standing and waving the American flag.

A little more than two years ago, Kerry Cochran of North Stonington left Wheeler High School halfway through her junior year.

The races for the open 47th District state House of Representatives seat being vacated by incumbent Republican Chris Coutu and the 43rd District House seat held by six-term Democratic incumbent Diana Urban of North Stonington are now set.

Please accept this letter in response to the May 16 letter, " Board of Ed a fiasco in North Stonington ." It read: "It seems that every time a controversy happens, the name of one board member appears." He's right.

North Stonington - A 25-foot copper beech honoring the life and contributions of Bill Hescock now shades the side lawn of the Wheeler Library.

Groton-based Charter Oak Federal Credit Union and John Fuller, owner of Full Power Radio based in Ledyard, will be given awards June 20 by the Connecticut Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

North Stonington The town's resident state trooper arrested a New Haven man Friday who allegedly tried to break into a car parked in a day care center parking lot on Route 2. Police said a witness heard her alarm sounding and saw Daniel Velazquez, 36, walking away from her car in the Pollywogs Day Care Center parking lot.

North Stonington Board of Education Chairman Darren Robert resigned from the post Friday, just days after he publicly berated a fellow board member following a meeting.

A Stonington Superintendent of Schools Leanne Masterjoseph announced her resignation last week and already questions are coming up about who will take her place and the process of finding that person.A Some S tonington residents feel community members should be included in the search committee, others are not so sure.

It's taken him 20 years to learn it, but Dennis McGee said he now understands business is all about networking.

It's a pretty bad situation when a student in the school has to chide the "Honorable Board of Education" in regards to their responsibilities.

More than 175 parishioners of St. Michael Church in Pawcatuck gathered Tuesday night to begin discussing how they should address the closure of their church building.

It should not be the state's job to deny a business the opportunity to operate in Connecticut because of a "lack of proof ... as to public need for its service." Yet that is the reason the state Department of Transportation provided a Rhode Island furniture company when it denied its application to open an operation in North Stonington.

North Stonington - A student, a parent and a teacher publicly admonished the Board of Education Wednesday for being "dysfunctional" and "embarrassing." The comments came during the public comment portion of a meeting that included yelling among board members.

Francisco Andino, 33, of 66 Jefferson Ave., Apt. 3, was charged Tuesday with disorderly conduct, third-degree strangulation, third-degree assault, carrying a dangerous weapon and second-degree threatening.

A preliminary forensic audit of the school district's budget is under way, results of which may lead to a full audit of school finances.