Rockville News

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.

Health Notes Submitted by Rosemary Martocchio on 2009-10-29.   Eastern Connecticut Health Network is implementing visitor restrictions at its two hospitals, Manchester Memorial and Rockville General, and at Woodlake at Tolland Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in an effort to protect patients/residents, visitors and employees from H1N1 and ...

John William Lomax III, center, accompanied by Attorney Deron Freeman, left, is arraigned on charges connected with the slaying of UConn football star Jasper Howard, in a courtroom at Rockville Superior Court, in Rockville, Conn., on Wednesday, Oct.

Before John Lomax III allegedly stabbed UConn football player Jasper Howard to death outside a dance at the UConn Student Union on Oct.

A University of Connecticut student faces a host of charges after he allegedly posted comments on internet message boards that threatened potential witnesses to the murder of UConn football player Jasper "Jazz" Howard.

The Bloomfield men arrested in conjunction with the stabbing death of UConn cornerback Jasper Howard were involved in a minor quarrel outside the Student Union Oct.

A 27-year-old woman working in the store was pistol-whipped by the suspect, and an undetermined amount of cash was taken.