This enormously popular festival normally draws thousands of people not only from around the state, but from as far as Massachusetts, Rhode Island and even that state famous for its own maple syrup, Vermont.

The state’s chief medical examiner testified Monday that the reported 2-foot, 2-inch fall that allegedly led to the death of an infant was inconsistent with the injuries that killed him.
Dr. H. Wayne Carver told prosecutors, the defense and Judge William Bright he had not seen other children sustain the same [...]

During the final stages of Monday morning’s get-away practice session at Gampel Pavilion. University of Connecticut men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun worked out two 5-man groupings of Huskies wearing white jerseys against a defensive unit clad in red.
The half-court drills were intense. The red squad consisting of substitutes also featured [...]

History has numerous meanings.
According to the web site www.webster’s-online-dictionary.org, history is “…the aggregate of past events; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.”
Well, that road to history, that road to 71, that magical number that has been asked about [...]

Long-awaited funding for the installation of train safety gates at a railroad intersection on Route 203 was located by state transportation officials, state Rep. Susan Johnson, D-Willimantic, said this morning.
Johnson said after making multiple inquiries and writing letters to various state officials, she received a call from a state Department [...]

Ever wonder how a dispatch center operates?
Windham residents were able to get a behind-the-scenes look at the newly renovated dispatch center Saturday morning after a re-opening ceremony at the Willimantic Police/Fire Complex on 22 Meadow St.
Local officials and community members who attended the ceremony were pleased the project was finally completed [...]

Fred Speno was appointed as the chief of the Hebron Volunteer Fire Department at the Jan. 21 meeting of the board of selectmen. His appointment lasts until Sept. 30, 2012.
Speno succeeds Paul Burton, who stepped down from the post Nov. 30. Speno had been serving as interim chief, appointed by the board of selectmen after [...]