Wethersfield News

It was a bittersweet night at the Mercy High School commencement Thursday. Even the Patch reporter got choked up talking to the Mercy High School Class of 2012; the girls were proud of their success but also recognized that their family of friends would be changing forever.

When the state bond commission meets on Monday, they will consider granting hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funding to a project some Republican lawmakers are fighting because they say the organization has Communist ties.

Typically, superintendents begin working in their new school district about a week before they take office, but Schumann has been transitioning since October, said Superintendent John Gallacher, who has held the position for the past 20 years and will to retire in June.

"If I had a second time to go around I'd want everything the same - same family, same job, and I'd still leave school at 15," he said.

A smoking skeleton is all that is left of the iconic Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Co.

An assistant principal at Wethersfield High School has been named the new principal at Enfield High School .

The town on Tuesday will begin resurfacing an approximately quarter-mile stretch of Griswoldville Avenue between Ridgeview Crossing and the Wethersfield town line.

Middletown Republicans are very pleased with their party's choice of candidate to challenge three-term Sen.

WARNING: Cartoon Mentoring may cause moments and even extended periods of happiness, laughter, confidence, boldness and in many cases playfulness.

The board of education and Superintendent Alan B. Bookman said goodbye to 20 retiring teachers on Monday.

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A New Britain man was arrested after he held a woman against her will and threatened to hurt her at a local motel Friday afternoon, Rocky Hill police said.

The town is joining with three neighboring towns to seek a state grant to pay 30 percent of the estimated $180,000 cost of a new tree-trimming truck the four towns will share.

Connecticut's claim to being the Constitution State is well founded in its history and in particular through key governing documents written by its earliest Colonial leaders.

A popular restaurant group has signed a deal to sell the assets of its Avon fishhouse to a longtime Farmington eatery that will take its place.

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The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is investigating an accident on Coventry Lake over the weekend that sent two canoeists to the hospital.

Note: Meeting will be shown on Comcast Channel 96 and at U-Verse 99 on Wednesday, May 16 th and Sunday, May 20 th at 6:00 p.m. 6:45 P.M. - Public Hearing The Town Council of the Town of Berlin will meet at Berlin Town Hall, Council Chambers, 240 Kensington Road, Berlin, CT on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 6:45 p.m. for the purpose of holding a public ... (more)

A The Wethersfield-Rocky Hill Professional Nurses Association awarded four scholarships to area nursing students at its annual meeting on May 9 in Wethersfield.