Redding News

Mark Twain, seen in 1903, lived in Hartford for two decades and wrote most of his major works here.

The 15th annual a oeChildren of Christmas,a a free sing-along holiday program led by local acoustic trio My Dada s Truck with special guests Bonnie Wisnowski and Santa, will take place Dec.

Some tangible work might begin next year on the long-awaited Georgetown Redevelopment Project.

Allison Griffith wasn't actually born singing, but she came close. "I was singing before I could talk," said Allison, an energetic 17-year-old from Redding.

WILTONBY KARA O'CONNORHour Staff Writer It's only been a few weeks since voters gave the green light to alcohol sales in town, but Redding resident Mitch Ancona is wasting no time on plans to open his own package store."I have always planned to open another store somewhere," said Ancona.

Hea TMs supposed to make the law, but instead Newtown Police arrested a state lawmaker for breaking the law.

Twenty-seven tickets, each involving a $37 fine, were given to motorists for not wearing seat belts since Newtown police began an enforcement operation Monday.

Brought up in Norwalk and raised in the city's public school system, Cheryl Kemeny never knew that her hometown played such a significant role in the Revolutionary War.

A woman quit her teaching job that paid $94,996 just after she was caught in a police sting stealing $20 from another teacher's purse, according to Wilton authorities.

The dead deer decomposing beyond Lynn Gorfinkle's back deck after her husband sent away a hunter without his trophy last month has mysteriously disappeared.

A Redding woman quit her job as a Wilton school teacher Monday after police said she was allegedly caught on videotape stealing $20 from another teacher's purse.

Dagny Mathiasen Williams and Thomas Wilcox Bronson were married May 16, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hartford, Conn.

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.