Old Mystic News

Our Civil War was a momentous period in history. Small maritime villages like Mystic felt an economic boom, providing vessels for national defense.

Holidays are often occasions for redecorating, but the last space you'd expect to get a makeover, especially for winter holidays, is the garage.

Police Chief J. Darren Stewart told some of the town's fire chiefs and ambulance company officials Thursday night that he would like to hire a dispatch supervisor and explore improvements in technology that could solve many of the dispatch problems they have complained about.

Sometimes in this day and age people just do not express appreciation. But I would like to.

Mystic - Peter D. Knight, 69, of Mystic, beloved husband of 25 years to Mary Knight, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, Oct.

Tom Passero, of New London, unloads a new shipment of apples, as Dom Leal shows his son, Ben 3, how the apples are unloaded off the truck, and into the mill.

Under the devote leadership of Chief Kenneth Richards, Jr., the Old Mystic Fire Department is known asA always being prepared.

By Bethe and Marcel DufresneKennedy Odede stood in the walled courtyard of the community center he founded on the outskirts of Nairobi's infamous Kibera slum and said the last thing that we, as journalists, wanted to hear.

Pigs still don't fly, Hell hasn't frozen over, but dessert could be good for you.

Poquonnock Bridge firefighters rescued screaming victims from the upper floors of an apartment building on Meridian Street Tuesday afternoon during a two-alarm fire at the Country Glen Apartments.

Police arrested an Old Mystic man early Wednesday morning after they say he threatened two friends with a 12-gauge shotgun and then refused to come out of his house and surrender to police.

Bethe and Marcel Dufresne of Old Mystic are reporting for The Courant on a journey to Kenya by some 40 doctors, nurses, teachers, librarians, business people and others working with American Friends of Kenya, a nonprofit organization based in Norwich with a chapter in Chicago.

Norwich - During the hottest days of the summer, the Society of the Founders is asking residents throughout the region to open their closets and storage chests and shelves and pull out blankets they haven't unfolded in months or even years.The Leffingwell House Museum on Washington Street hopes to collect 350 blankets, afghans and throws during the ...

Someone forced entry into a Lantern Hill Road home Monday while the residents were out, Ledyard police said in press release Tuesday.

Genealogy makes a great hobby. As soon as I retired from teaching, I decided to try my hand at tracing my family roots.