Roxbury News

Listening to Jim Harron Sr., 73, rattle off different names, blends and varieties of teas is much like listening to another language -- rooibos, oolong, Darjeeling, tamaryokucha.

On Saturday, the Palace Theater in Danbury will show one of the first movies to take advantage of the tax credit to film in Connecticut.

Dr Anna Paula Machado, the Newtown School Districta TMs medical advisor, recently spoke to The Newtown Bee about the safety and effectiveness of the more abundant H1N1 flu mist vaccine as an alternative to the injectable version, which is currently in short supply.

The new senior pastor at Salem Covenant Church in Washington arrived with a winning smile and arms open wide to embrace the community.

Mine Hill Preserve is a place where your imagination and legends both come to life.

Since state funding for public health is about to expire, Brookfield officials will either have to merge its health department with another town's department or assume all public health costs for town residents.

Students in Washington, Roxbury and Bridgewater, which make up Regional School District 12 in western Connecticut, are getting an extended weekend, but not by choice.       Wednesday was a planned day off for Veteran's Day observances, but school officials decided to cancel classes Thursday and Friday as well to deal with ...

Voters from throughout the region will be heading out to the polls Tuesday to select the leaders of their community.

The sale of Villarina's Pasta & Fine Food store was bittersweet this week as owner Holly Slupatchuk bid farewell to the business her late husband, Bill, opened three years ago.

The public is invited to the reception of "Harvest Time," an exhibit by Rosemary Connor, who is known locally and nationally for her art.

A 16-year-old Roxbury youth was killed and three other teens were injured, one of them critically, when their speeding car went out of control, hit a ledge and overturned on Route 47 Thursday afternoon, police said.

Longtime selectman Neil Cable has officially thrown his hat into the ring as an independent petitioning candidate for Bridgewater first selectman for the Nov.

The Animal Welfare Society , at 8 Dodd Road in New Milford, will celebrate another year of service to the Bridgewater, Brookfield, New Milford, Roxbury and Washington communities in sheltering and caring for abandoned and neglected animals at Fur Ball 2009.

Residents of the Transylvania Road section of Roxbury turned out in mass to oppose AT&T's planned cell tower at 126 Transylvania Road.

It's no secret -- Barrie Goldstein has a passion for the law. For more than 30 years she served in the federal and state trial and appellate courts in New York, during which time she was involved in a number of significant cases.

On 08/30/09 Connecticut State Police Troop A Southbury received 911 call reporting that there was a fight in progress at 101 Gold Mine Rd , Roxbury.

Bridgewater First Selectman Bill Stuart is elated that the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of his town's suit to halt elementary school consolidation in Region 12.

Whether it's a stack of sweet corn waiting on a wooden crate by the road or a fully staffed shed selling vegetables, homemade jellies, maple syrup and freshly baked pies, the country farm stand evokes the richness of summer and Connecticut's homage to its land.

One of the books is available at the former school site. The Mayor of Limerick, Councillor Kevin Kiely, who called for some of the author's ashes to be returned to the city, was the first to sign a book of condolence opened at City Hall.

Frank McCourt, the former New York City public school teacher from Ireland who gained fame for the autobiographical "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, July 19, of cancer at a Manhattan hospice.