Rockville News

The neighborhood around a home on Talcott Avenue was locked down and searched by police around 8 p.m. Saturday after a report of gunshots, which police said turned out to be two intoxicated men firing from a back porch.

Vernon's Holiday Decorating Contest Parks & Recreation Submitted by Bryan Flint - Coordinator, Rockville Community Alliance, Vernon Parks & Rec.

Religious Life Submitted by Bryan Flint - Coordinator, Greater Rockville Christian Community, on 2009-12-09.   The Community Christmas Worship Service & Carol Sing will take place Tuesday, Dec.

Eighty-three-year-old Seymour Kummer knows a thing or two about stroke. He's seen a bunch in his years as a family doctor in Rockville, Connecticut.

State and local crews at work clearing snow from roads, but it will be slow going for the morning commute.

A little over a year ago Frank P. Cirillo was a pariah at the University of Connecticut.

Submitted by Rosemary Martocchio, ECHN, on 2009-11-25.   RGH Auxiliary Board Kristen Allevo, recording secretary; Joan Duell, 1st vice president; Joyce Jordan, president; Susan Mason, 2nd vice president; and Sharon Giguere, treasurer.

VERNON Friends of Rockville Public Library will hold its annual home-baked cookies fund-raiser Dec.

People Submitted by Vernon Local Historic Properties Commission, Town of Vernon, on 2009-11-20.   The Vernon Local Historic Properties Commission organized its annual historic tour this year in the Rockville Historic District.

A Coventry man is free on $300,000 bail after his conviction Friday on 12 counts related to the sexual abuse of a young girl.

An inmate at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers can stand trial for the July killing of his cellmate, a judge ruled Friday in Superior Court in Rockville .

A former Manchester man - who a judge said grew up in a "sexually dysfunctional" family - was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl from the time she was 9 until she was 16.

Submitted by Liane Lombardi, Rockville Rotary Club, on 2009-11-17.   For the third annual community clean up project, the Rockville Rotary and their Interact Club from Rockville High School went to the property of a Vernon homeowner who is challenged in taking care of her lawn, to rake leaves, trim bushes, and mow the lawn on Sunday, Nov.

That Jeffrey McEwen is a violent drunk who intended to murder two people the evening of June 2, 2008, at 17 Pillsbury Hill was not in dispute Friday at Superior Court in Rockville .

The holidays aren't that far away. And despite the warm weather for this November day, you have to think cold, as in the H.A. Butterworth Memorial Iceberg Open that will be held at Tallwood Country Club-Hebron Dec.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Liane Lombardi on 2009-11-05.   On Oct. 26, Kyle Charette, Director of Sales of Premium Box Seats at Live Nation's Comcast & Oakdale Theatres, spoke at the Rockville Rotary Club meeting.

An apartment was destroyed by a fire that appears to have started in a garage area this morning.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Florence Mill Activity Club on 2009-11-03.   Florence Mill Activity Club will hold a Christmas Fair and Tag Sale at the Florence Mill Apartments, 121 West Main St., Rockville, on Dec 5, from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.. Event will feature gifts, baked goods, plants, toys, household goods, kid's books, and Gramma's Attic.

Police arrested a local couple after an early-morning drug bust at their Union Street apartment.

Drug prosecutions continue to be imperiled as suspicions linger over Holyoke police detective Paul C. Barkyoumb's credibility and whether he pocketed a suspect's cell phone during a drug raid and used it to send his ex-girlfriend threatening text messages.