Litchfield County

Litchfield County's celebrated Community Table, a sustainable restaurant with an intense focus on locally-sourced cuisine, will receive an award for its environmentally-friendly practices from People's Action for Clean Energy (PACE,) a Connecticut-based...

The 5th Congressional District will tell us if voters mean what they say. You've heard it, you may have uttered the same sentiments yourself. Why can't our elected officials stop being so partisan and nasty? Why won't they work together? If that's what...

I now know what the steel ball feels like when it is being whopped around the bumpers in a pinball machine. On a recent visit to the wilds of Litchfield County, I was mesmerized by the sunlight flashing through the breaks in the white pine canopy. My...

The first priority is to get the electricity back on and to make sure all citizens, particularly elderly residents living alone, are safe. But it's also time to ask what Connecticut Light & Power was doing in the days and hours before the storm when a...

The state Senate voted Thursday night to raise the minimum wage — after a huge clash between Republicans and Democrats. The latest version calls for raising the wage by 75 cents per hour over two years, with no index for inflation. As such, the...

The forecast for Wednesday night was more bad weather, but as of about 7:30 p.m. severe storm watches in the state had all been canceled. A severe thunderstorm watch was put in effect for Hartford, Litchfield, Tolland and Windham counties Wednesday...

Dates: Exhibit, June 2 through July 28 Meet the Artist Reception, Sunday, June 30: free Contact: For more info call the Norfolk Artisan Guild, 860-542-5055 or visit http://www.facebook.com/Artisansguild The Norfolk Artisan Guild proudly presents Kathleen...

Connecticut would become the first state in the nation to mandate the recycling of mattresses, whose disposal has become an ongoing problem in major cities. The measure passed by 28 to 8 in the state Senate on Thursday afternoon, coming after bipartisan...

Even if death and taxes are the only things certain in life, state legislators say they can never be certain about death taxes. With no crystal ball and no idea when spectacularly wealthy Connecticut residents might die, state officials make an educated...

Sales of single-family houses in Connecticut fell nearly 7 percent in March compared with the same month a year ago, the second consecutive month of year-over-year sale declines, a new report Tuesday shows. But the Warren Group, which tracks housing...

For the last six years, Republican state legislators have put together an alternative budget to the one presented and usually enacted by Democrats, who have strong majorities in both houses of the legislature. This year, however, the GOP declined to offer...

Event: Art Exhibition by Kathleen Kelly Title: Paradise: Near and Far Location: Norfolk Artisan Guild, Station Place, Norfolk Dates: Exhibit, June 2 through July 28 Meet the Artist Reception, Sunday, June 28 (free) Contact: For more info call the...