Stonington News

Poor Masons Island. Think you have traffic problems? Visit Noank village and, while on the way here, check out the tight squeeze on the road where the Oyster House recently opened.

Some members of the Planning and Zoning Commission raised concerns about a proposal Tuesday night that would expand the permitted uses allowed in the town's manufacturing zones in an attempt to reuse vacant mill space.

First Selectmen Ed Haberek has said that the town has issued a notice of violation to Handlebar Cafe for erecting an illegal sign and set of large handlebars over the entrance to the Route 1 bar as part of its reality television show makeover.

Thames Valley Communications announced this week that it has finished upgrades that will bring faster Internet service to its coverage area including Gales Ferry, Groton, Mystic, Stonington and Pawcatuck.

Aaren Simoncini started small when he opened Beer'd Brewing in Stonington in late 2012.

James Repass of Boston, MA, president of National Corridors Initiative, a group dedicated to the modernization of our country's rail service, surveys the site of Friday's derailment and collision in Bridgeport, Conn.

Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic Village of Stonington. Open daily: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission: $24, seniors and college students $22, youth $15; age 5 and younger, free.

The Mystic teenager charged last week with causing as much as $100,000 of damage to an unoccupied Pawcatuck home, has been arrested again, this time for allegedly breaking into a Mystic garage and stealing beer.

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

The job of local law enforcement officers has never been easy. Each day an officer steps onto the street and into the unknown.

One of his clients is the woman who is suing the first selectman of Stonington, claiming he sent her a picture of his genitals.

A Pawcatuck woman who is a principal in Chicken Lovers Urge Change , has filed an application to change the town's zoning regulations so residents can raise six hens, or two hens per household member on residential properties.

The legislature established the Brewery Trail and on Tuesday, during the state's Beer Week, got a look at the app.

Lisa Tepper Bates of Stonington, the executive director of the Mystic Area Shelter & Hospitality Inc., has been named the new executive director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.

Power was knocked out to a large section of Pawcatuck early this morning and a portion of Pequot Trail was temporarily closed after an SUV driven by a woman, who police say was intoxicated, struck a utility pole.

Stonington Board of Police Commissioners Chairman Scott Bates said Thursday night that police will not take action to stop a teenager from riding his dirt bike on his family's Richmond Lane property.

The Highway Department and its subcontractors are scheduled to begin the first phase of the town's $3.5 million paving and road repair project next week.

The Connecticut House of Representatives has approved a bill that would block towns and cities from enacting breed-specific bans on dogs.

Lori St. Jean, 46, of 368 Grindstone Hill Road, North Stonington, was charged Wednesday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and driving with a suspended license.

Connecticut students who object to dissecting frogs, fetal pigs and other dead animals in science classes may soon be able to opt out.