Redding News

This year's special election for the town's judge of probate was highly contested because of its impact on next year's election.

John has an acoustic set planned for Thursday, November 12, from 7 to 9 pm. Then PHIL & HARRISON will co-headline on Friday night, the 13th, also starting at 7. THE HIP REPLACEMENTS, performing classic rock, will follow on Saturday, 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

From her seat inside Jacqueline's restaurant Tuesday afternoon, 82-year-old Ada Cole could see the Bethel United Methodist Church across the street.

The project, called Twain Connections, is just that. It involves finding connections Twain made here during his remarkable life as a writer, humorist and philosopher.

Shelton Intermediate School students can forget about the fall dance scheduled Friday, at least for now.

Kevin Kinyon, 43, and Michael Caldwell, 39, feel they have a really good gig. In fact, they say they've had 80,000 of them since launching their Web site, www.GigMasters.com , in 1997.

On an empty plot of land near the northeastern corner of the Sherwood Island Connector and Greens Farm Road, some shards of artifacts excavated last month tell a story about the former site of the West Parish Meeting House.

Each of the 1,000 tulip bulbs planted in Seymour-Redding Elementary School's new Field of Dreams is a promise - a promise from each student to remain drug and alcohol free.

Just read about this place in the paper the other day and yesterday we were down in Fairfield County driving around to many estate sales and we ended up in Redding for lunch at the Redding Road House.

Mark Twain was not big on anniversaries. "What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light," he observed.

A 46-year-old woman was arrested after police investigated a Tuesday night motor vehicle accident involving a driver who allegedly left the scene.

After a six-month search for a new superintendent, the Region 9 Board of Education unanimously appointed Michael Cicchetti to the position.

There are little to no surprises in the endorsements for this year's elections in Redding.

Reader C.R. of Walnut Creek, a gerontologist who works with seniors, took me to task recently for my opening comments on aging in my Sept.

"Think globally, act locally" is the good-for-all-occasions environmental catch phrase.

As a Democrat twice elected chairman of the Republican-majority Redding school board, I know the value of bipartisanship.

There is a dead deer lying about 40 yards beyond Lynn Gorfinkle's back deck. It has been there, with a fatal arrow wound in its side, since Oct.

Should Wilton revise the elderly tax relief ordinance to offer reductions in property taxes based on age and not just need? This question was the focal point of two heavily attended town hall forums last month and the debate has carried on in letters to this paper ever since.

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Marcus Dairy will move its operations to Oxford in about a year, owner Neil Marcus said Friday.