Local News • Published Apr 28, 2024 02 pm
By Daniel Drainville
Paulie, a flighty peacock once known for running amok across town roads, perching atop cars and evading net-brandishing authorities out for his capture, is now the patriarch of a growing family at Waterford Country School.
News • Published Apr 28, 2024 12 pm
By Pam Johnson
On Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Crafters Care presents a “Mothers Day Sip & Shop,” at Caius Farm Brewery in Branford, with a 50/50 raffle to benefit Branford’s Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter.
News • Published Apr 28, 2024 12 pm
By Pam Johnson
Branford celebrated Arbor Day on Friday, April 26, with environmentally-minded third graders at Tisko Elementary School, where the town has planted several new trees, including this sycamore (foreground), one of nine new trees planted near the school. Pam Johnson
News • Published Apr 28, 2024 07 am
By Pam Johnson
During a special meeting on April 23, the North Branford Town Council finalized a $61,838,729 Town Budget for fiscal year 2024-2025 which equates to a 35.93 mill rate. The new mill rate represents an increase of 1.41 mills from the current 34.52 mill rate.
News • Published Apr 27, 2024 10 am
By Pam Johnson
Branford's extensive budget process continues with the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) review of the $135,311,096 Town budget for fiscal year 2024-2025 recommended by the Board of Finance (BOF).
News • Published Apr 26, 2024 06 pm
Press Release from Town of Guilford
The Town of Guilford is excited to announce that the long-awaited upgrade to the septic system at Jacobs Beach will begin on Monday, A...
Living • Published Apr 26, 2024 02 pm
By Kathy Connolly
Birds are flying north at night again, as they have for millennia. What’s new in the past decade is that anyone with an Internet browser can watch the avian flyways and e...
News • Published Apr 26, 2024 02 pm
By Eric O'Connell
After four months, Clinton has a new finance director. On April 23, the Town announced it had hired Robert Tait, ending a months-long search.
Following an executive sessi...
News • Published Apr 26, 2024 12 pm
By Eric O'Connell
At a Board of Selectmen (BOS) meeting on April 9, the board unanimously voted to fund a $3,600 appraisal of the Boggio Property, paving the way for the town to potentiall...
News • Published Apr 26, 2024 12 pm
By Eric O'Connell
Clinton’s proposed town and education budgets will head to a referendum on Wednesday, May 8, at Town Hall. The Town Council unanimously voted to forward a proposed town b...
News • Published Apr 26, 2024 10 am
Grade 12 High Honors
Ellen Akehurst, Ava Alston, Jaidan Amendola, Hunter Anderson, Aidan Babek, Madison Julie Barfield, Bridget Barnum, Mia Bibbiani, Maeve Brashears...
News • Published Apr 25, 2024 02 pm
By Aaron Rubin
ESSEX
Following multiple public hearings since July 2023, the Essex Board of Selectmen (BOS) formally adopted an ordinance governing short-term rental properties and...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 01 pm
Theresa Esposito Laudano, 103, of New Haven, entered eternal rest on April 22, 2024, at the Connecticut Hospice, Branford, surrounded by her loving family. She was the be...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 01 pm
Jeffrey Nicholas Nuzzo of Madison passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his beloved mother and brother on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, following a valiant battle with ...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 01 pm
On March 6,2024, Allen Walker of Sarasota, Florida, and Guilford passed away in Sarasota. Allen was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. April 24, 1942. He was the son of the...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 01 pm
Robert “Bob” Hilary Kane died on April 20, 2024, at the age of 85, after a brief illness. He was surrounded by family and friends at his home in Guilford. Bob had moved t...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 01 pm
On April 20, 2024, Joseph W. Mocarski, 88, a longtime resident of Madison, passed away at his home. He was the loving companion of Frances Hamilton. Mr. Mocarski was born...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
On April 21, 2024, Barbara Hall Nolan, 77, a longtime resident of Guilford, passed away peacefully at Saint Raphael Hospital in New Haven. She was surrounded by her lovin...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
Marjorie L. Brandt Decker, 98, of North Haven, passed away peacefully on April 22, 2024, at Yale New Haven Hospital/St. Raphael Campus. She was the beloved wife of the la...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
Walter Michael “Walt” Conklin, beloved father, brother, grandfather, teacher, neighbor, and friend, passed away peacefully on April 17, 2024. He was 92 years old and a ki...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
Audrey L. Lyons died on April 18, 2024, of natural causes at the age of 100, at the Essex Meadows Health Center in Essex. Audrey was the daughter of Edward G. Garbers and...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
On March 30, 2024, our beloved mother, grandmother, sister, neighbor, and friend, Sandra Jeanne (Bibbiani) Brown, returned to our Heavenly Father and was reunited with he...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
Bryan David Testa, 81, of North Haven, passed away peacefully on April 18, 2024, at Yale New Haven Hospital/St. Raphael Campus. He was the beloved husband of 63 years to ...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
Steven Frederick “Steve” Wohlke, 75, passed away peacefully on April 19, 2024, while surrounded by loving family. He was born March 1, 1949, in Waterbury to Genevieve and...
Obituaries • Published Apr 25, 2024 12 pm
Scott Brian Gore, age 64, of Old Saybrook, formerly Windsor, passed away peacefully on March 16, 2024, with his wife, Donna, by his side.
His wife and family will welcome...
