Westbrook News

Well-known physician and author Bernie Siegel, M.D. addresses the crowd gathered at the recent Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center Prevention Day event in Westbrook.

People Submitted by Valerie Bartos on 2009-06-30.   Valerie Bartos Left to right: Janice Gibson, ALSA director, Hebrew Health Care; Joan Carney, executive director, Hoffman SummerWood Community; Marie Morris, RN Hebrew Health Care, CALA winner; Valerie Bartos, CALA Winner, director of community eelations, Hoffman SummerWood Community; Jay ...

A housing official said Monday that effects of the subprime mortgage mess are still reverberating throughout the state's economy, but he held out hope that revved-up state and federal programs will be able to revive Connecticut's housing market.

At The Library Submitted by Mary Fiorelli on 2009-06-19.   "The Joys of Summer," an exhibition extolling the beauty of the season, features four shoreline artists -- Renni Ridgeway-Korsmeyer, Ron Olansen, Lee Skolnick and Bonnie Fins Stoddard -- at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library from July 16 through September 25.

NY1's Valerie D'Elia filed the following report. Connecticut has the best of both worlds, a salty shoreline and leafy luxury.

Danskin, a women's active wear and dance wear apparel outlet store at 275 Post Road East in Westport's Playhouse Square shopping center, has closed after seven years at the location.

Lisa Fatone of Westbrook is a graduate of the Paier College of Art and Albertus Magnus College in New Haven.

Thirteen engraved granite markers, each bearing a stanza from Wallace Stevens ' famous poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," will be dedicated this afternoon at 5 at an event that marks the official opening of The Wallace Stevens Walk in Hartford.

Submitted by Susan M. Bradley on 2009-06-04.   Vista Vocational & Life Skills Center, Inc.

Three days after Leslie Buck's suspicious death in Mystic in May 2002, her husband went to the Stonington police department and talked willingly about some of the most personal aspects of his life.

Carol King is a former contributing editor at House & Garden and a freelance garden and lifestyle writer.

Spring migration peaks in May. At this time of year our local bird population is expanding by thousands each day.

A Connecticut man has a chance of being allowed to withdraw his 2000 admission to committing child endangerment in an Ocean County case because of his claims that the victim has recanted her molestation accusation, a panel of judges has ruled.

Submitted by Westbrook Town Clerk on 2009-05-06.   The Westbrook Town Clerk's office will host a rabies clinic on May 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Mulvey Municipal Center, 866 Boston Post Road, Westbrook, during which identification microchips will be available for implantation for $35. Written proof of prior rabies vaccintion must be ...

Biz Buzz Submitted by Eileen Fitzgerald on 2009-05-04.   In an effort to educate the public about the dangers of lead poisoning, Pumpkin Patch Preschool and Child Care is teaming up with the State of Connecticut Public Health Department in mid May to offer parents lead education training on avoiding situations that could irreversibly harm their ...

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Julie Peace on 2009-04-27.   The Shoreline Soup Kitchen Garden needs drivers to pick up donations of produce from local farmers' markets on Tuesday and Saturday mornings and Thursday afternoons from May through October.

The Shoreline Soup Kitchens far outpaced all charities in balloting by Essex Savings Bank customers who were asked to help allocate the bank's annual grants.

Registration for Westbrook Teen and Summer Day Camps are available now! Parks & Recreation Submitted by Rich Annino on 2009-04-15.   Please regsiter as soon as possible for the Westbrook summer camps.

Biz Buzz Submitted by Susan Ladny on 2009-04-09.   Joseph P. Lawler of Branford was recently honored at the annual Connecticut Association for Adult and Continuing Education Conference at Water's Edge in Westbrook.

If you are looking for the most popular seafood restaurant on route one in Connecticut you will be hard pressed to find one that is more popular than the two locations of Lenny and Joes in Madison and Westbrook.