North Stonington News

North Stonington A former Wheeler Middle/High School student is due in court Thursday to answer to charges that he threatened and was verbally abusive to the school principal after being told to leave school grounds.

State Attorney General George Jepsen issued a statement Monday afternoon in response to a flier circulated by Firefly Farms owner Van Brown that implies Jepsen is supporting Brown in a land dispute.

The Connecticut House has approved a bill that would block towns and cities from enacting breed-specific bans on dogs.

The Highway Department and its subcontractors are scheduled to begin the first phase of the town's $3.5 million paving and road repair project next week.

Richard Marsh of Belchertown, Mass., grooms Alex, his West Highland white terrier, for competition Friday at the St.

Lori St. Jean, 46, of 368 Grindstone Hill Road, North Stonington, was charged Wednesday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and driving with a suspended license.

The Connecticut House has approved a bill that would block towns and cities from enacting breed-specific bans on dogs.

City police seized nearly 4 pounds of marijuana, packaging material and a shotgun, and arrested two men Thursday on drug-related charges.

Maintenance workers at the Norwich Municipal Ice Rink sent an anonymous complaint to the state Department of Labor April 8 predicting a second cooling system failure, saying they had not been trained to handle ammonia and that a new ammonia alarm had not been installed.

Connecticut students who object to dissecting frogs, fetal pigs and other dead animals in science classes may soon be able to opt out.

Four days after the town officially filed a lawsuit against Van Brown, more than 100 residents at a special town meeting Tuesday night took just over two hours to make their case for what should happen next to the land at 96 Button Road.

Firefighters from several area departments battle a brush fire spanning several acres in a wooded area off Pendleton Hill Road in North Stonington on Tuesday.

It was almost dj vu at the town budget public hearing Monday night, which took place not seven months after voters approved this year's spending plan.

On the evening of its self-imposed deadline, the Board of Finance worked late into the night Wednesday to finalize the 2013-14 town budget.

Town police charged two teens, ages 15 and 14, with reckless burning Wednesday in connection with a brush fire Sunday in a wooded area off Captain Amos Stanton Road.

The board voted just last week to take the long-running land dispute over the former Norwich YMCA property at 96 Button Road to a town meeting to give the public an opportunity to air its views and take a vote.

Ledyard police have joined the fire marshal in the investigation of a brush fire Sunday that police say may have been intentionally set.

Jeremy Perry, second from left, and Brenda Perry, right, of North Stonington talk Sunday with David McConnell, left, of Griswold and Kelsie Culotta of Hopkinton, R.I., at the employee parking lot at Foxwoods Resort and Casino next to some of the trucks that participated in the Convoy for Care for the Perrys that started at the Washington County ... (more)

Lesliann N. Lane, 22, of 11 McCulley Place, Uncasville, was charged Wednesday with evading responsibility, failure to drive right and possession of a controlled substance.

The Connecticut State Police is participating in a Drug Take Back Program across the State on Saturday, April 27, 2012.