Litchfield County News

A majority of CL&P customers currently without power will likely have their lights back on this evening, a CL&P spokesman said at 3 p.m. Spokesman Al Lara said that storms previously expected to hit the area ...

Wykeham Road is a heavily shaded and winding rural thoroughfare with several bends and obstructed sightlines.

The Northwest Transit District will be holding a toy collection at Wal-Mart on July 25 to July 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., as part of a "Christmas in July" collection to support the Torrington Firefighters Local ...

Terrence G. Clark, a man who kept Litchfield county residents informed about the world around them on his radio news programs, died July 9, 2008.

The state has not yet finalized plans to buy the Timken property, the site of the new Litchfield County Courthouse.

The owners of a local summer horse camp have big plans to intervene in the lives of troubled children.

The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that Litchfield County has seen an estimated decline of 87 people between 2006 and 2007.

Other than a caveat against commercial slaughterhouses, the Town Council on Monday night endorsed a right-to-farm ordinance to encourage and protect farmers' rights to till their land, grow crops and trees and ...

The annual summer lecture sponsored by the Litchfield County Writers Project will feature a talk called 'Poems of Love, Poems of Loss' by Charles Van Doren on the life and works of Emily Dickinson.

Van Doren has written more than a dozen books and was vice president/editorial for Encyclopedia Britannica. He is a faculty member at the University of Connecticut at Torrington, where the lecture will be given.

The event, to be held Friday, also includes a poetry reading by Sally Van Doren, who has won awards for her work. Her poems have appeared in such periodicals as Boulevard, Colorado Review and LIT.

Verizon wants to add a cell tower just west of Winsted, but before that happens, resident said they want to know how high it will be.

But one recent weekday night, the group setting up their nets and high-frequency acoustical receivers near a large swamp in Sessions Woods didn't have recreation in mind.

ONCE A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN, Isaiah Cooper is now a lawyer who represents moviemakers and other entertainers.

The American Cancer Society has hired Mindy Doyle, of New Hartford, to manage its Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event in Westport and its annual Daffodil Days Campaign in Fairfield and Litchfield ...

C harles Van Doren and Sally Van Doren will give readings July 18 at the annual summer lecture for the Litchfield County Writers Project at the University of Connecticut 's Torrington campus.

After spending a few years in limbo -- writing books about her native England after moving to Westport -- Jane Green has produced what could be called her first full-fledged "American" novel, The Beach House .

Garden designer and author Gordon Hayward signs a copy of his book, Stone in the Garden, for Maureen Tartaglia of Weston.

At the end of June, Jon Haddon will retire as rabbi of Temple Shearith Israel. But it will be far from the end of his 21-year association with the temple or the greater Ridgefield religious community.

Options to expand service on Metro-North Railroad's Danbury branch line are the focus of a just-launched study that state and federal officials discussed Tuesday in City Hall.

If you live in Connecticut - land of about 100,000 deer according to the Department of Environmental Protection - you probably have a deer story.

Morris _ It appears alcohol may be to blame for a riverboat accident in Litchfield County that sent 22 people overboard.