Roxbury News

There is an art to photographing major solar events like the 2012 transit of Venus across the sun on June 5-6, 2012.

The mood was still "somber" this week at Shepaug Valley High School in Washington as students and staff coped with the death of Roxbury resident Cody Montana , a 16-year-old junior, said Superintendent of Schools Bruce Storm on Wednesday.

If there were to be anything positive to come out of last week's highway department garage fire in Washington, it would be the cooperation shown by area firefighters in putting out the May 2 blaze.

Voters in Bridgewater, Roxbury and Washington will go to the polls Tuesday, May 8, to decide on Region 12's proposed $21.35 million education budget for fiscal year 2012-13. The proposed budget would represent a 0.46 percent increase, or $97,703 more than the $21.26 million budget for this year.

Even with all the excitement over New Morning Market's new store, the scene stealer was Millie the French Bulldog, the canine companion of John Pittari.