Trumbull News

A lot of carbs were consumed this weekend on behalf of Alex Convertito. Saturday, the Echo Hose Fire Station in Shelton held a pasta dinner to raise funds for the 22-year-old who was severely injured in a car accident on Sept.

Amid the election night revelry that marks a candidate's victory bash, there's often an element of live theater.

The white-hot political battles facing four veteran southwestern Connecticut leaders are drawing statewide attention this Election Day.

As the hotly contested race for first selectman between four-term Democratic incumbent Raymond G. Baldwin Jr.

While the top-of-the-ticket races for mayor and first selectman are the ones drawing attention Tuesday, democracy might be better measured by the lesser contests, for local school boards, town councils and planning and zoning commissions throughout the region.

In the same way that swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, many Trumbull college-bound kids have a flight path.

On one side is an incumbent whose proposal for an 11.6 percent tax increase a year and a half ago, though eventually substantially pared down, still makes many residents shudder.

For 11 years, Charlie Snedacker was lucky. Though he loved sports, including lacrosse and skateboarding, Charlie, who lives in Norwalk, had never once gotten a concussion.

Officials of Bow Tie Cinemas have agreed to increase security at the theater complex here in the wake of last Friday's gang melee, First Selectman Raymond Baldwin Jr.

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Five people were arrested after gunfire was shot outside of a Trumbull theater early Saturday morning.

He's been convicted, had the conviction reversed and now the reversal has been overturned.

All those plastic containers don't have to go into a landfill. There are other options -- like equipment for a new playground in Trumbull.

Christmas came early to the Westfield Trumbull mall, as the Planning and Zoning Commission stuffed the company's proverbial stocking Wednesday night with unanimous approval for a $25 million renovation, including a major redesign of the facade, which the owners hope renews the shopping complex's appeal.

The contenders for the town's top job traded polite charges and countercharges Tuesday, with Republican Stephen Vavrek arguing that Democratic incumbent First Selectman Thomas Buzi hasn't done enough to foster economic development, and Buzi retorting that Monroe is doing well considering the suffering national economy.

The Merritt Parkway for many years has been a pleasing driving alternative to the mayhem of I-95.Scenic and truck-free, the four-lane road was designed especially that way.

Like countless others around the world, Karin Martel was glued to her television, praying for good news on the fate of a 6-year-old boy feared to have taken flight in a homemade balloon soaring thousands of feet aloft -- before he was found safe at home.

Alonzo Darby, of Bridgeport, decides against giving his 2 year old son, Chaz, right, the live H1N1 intranasal vaccine after reading the risks at the Department of Health clinic on Friday, Oct.

The Dunkin' Donuts outlet on White Plains Road got an unexpected visitor this morning - a full-size pickup truck.

The Sun Products Corporation donates sustainable playground to the Town of Trumbull WHERE: Trumbull Nature and Arts Center - 7115 Main Street, Trumbull, CT/203-452-4421 WHEN: Friday, October 23, 2009, 7:30am - 5:00 pm 7:30 am - 10:00 am Playground Build Begins 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ROMPING WALL Finishing and Hand Prints *All volunteers/guests invited ...