Portland News

After scoring just two points in the first quarter, Cromwell guard Pat Sirois said, "I wasn't settled and rushed my shots." Sirois scored 17 of his career-high 33 points in the third quarter to power Cromwell past Valley Regional 68-60 Friday night at Jake Salafia Gymnasium.

The city will upgrade technology in the council chambers at city hall to replace the failing system which broadcasts meetings on cable TV.

A 144-year-old, town-owned building at 5 Main St., which was once home to a local lumber company, will be torn down now that the board of selectmen has voted to demolish it.

A The CIAC Class S Indoor Track and Field Championships will be held today at 4 p.m. at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.

The common council voted unanimously this week to hire the three officers, and also voted to accelerate the start date of three other recently approved officers so they can take positions in an upcoming police academy class.

According to theU.S. Department of Justice, in 2010, more than 7 percent of households in the United States or 8.6 million, had at least one member 12-years-old or older who experienced one or more types of identity theft.

Offered for the first time by the town parks and recreation department, the dance will be hosted by a disc jockey and will feature appetizers.

Seasons Federal Credit Union is pleased to be offering its scholarship program again this year, making it the 14th year that the credit union is rewarding academic achievement among its members.

Mayor Daniel Drew proposed the plan last week to give seniors who qualify for the program the option of freezing their tax rate or deferring their payments.

The value of the town's grand list of taxable property fell by $56.8 million in 2011, a drop of 6.6 percent, a report by town Assessor Nicole Lintereur shows.

Artisans Harbor,188 Main St., Old Saybrook, Winter Opening will showcase over 600 paintings by 40 award winning and recognized Connecticut artists.

The Wedding Dress is celebrating their tenth anniversary with the 65 Roses Masquerade Ball to benefit The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

A Middletown has won the support of a local planning agency for $1 million in grants to build a new walking trail from Wesleyan Hills to the downtown, beating out several small towns in the region that had also vied for the funding to extend the Airline Trail from East Hampton to Portland.

A To register or to obtain additional information for any Parks and Recreation programs, please call 860-342-6757, or you may go online to www.portlandct.org , click on Departments, then to Parks and Recreation.

An employee of a group home was arrested Tuesday and charged with reckless endangerment in connection with the 2011 death of a resident who set himself on fire, state officials said.

There will be a ceremony at city hall to honor victims of the Kleen Energy power plant explosion on Tuesday, the two-year anniversary of the blast.

For nearly two decades, Mike Meehan has carved chocolate-colored rock from the fossil-rich brownstone cliffs here along the Connecticut River , drawing the interest of schoolchildren, rock hounds and geologists.

At a building committee meeting Monday, the group decided that the main entrance and lobby for the building with an elevator will be on the East side of the property on Durant Terrace.

Portland Library plans to celebrate the first "Take Your Child to the Library Day" on Saturday, Feb.

The Women's Fellowship of the First Congregational Church will hold its 15th annual Mid-Winter Chocolate Festival on Saturday, Feb.