Lee Howard

Jim Streeter’s recollection of detail is quite remarkable, but that’s to be expected of someone who has been a crime scene investigator and the Town of Groton historian. What’s even more noteworthy a...

Regina Brady, director of Thames Valley Council for Community Action’s WIC program, has been named director of the agency’s new Family Bridge universal home visiting program, set to launch in Janu...

The Groton-based Connecticut Wind Collaborative announced Thursday that it has commissioned a study to determine how to address supply chain gaps that could affect the rapid expansion of the offshore ...

Groton -- Some development projects seem fated to never come about, despite gaining all the necessary approvals, and the Cornerstone Village condominiums off Winding Hollow Road was one of those langu...

Ledyard ― A consultant hired by the town estimated Thursday at a Planning & Zoning Commission meeting that the 40-acre Gales Ferry Intermodal site being considered for a quarry application would...

Peter Emanuel fell on his head in July while mowing the lawn on a sharp hill at his home on River Road in Waterford. Not thinking much of it, he did what guys do: dusted himself off and kept on cutti...

New London ― Frank Colmenares is perhaps best known locally for organizing the New London Talent Show with Curtis Goodwin following the 2010 murder of Matthew Chew, an event that galvanized the city ...

Manufacturing has always been a staple of the Connecticut economy but lately, after years of retrenchment, it has become a growing part of what the Nutmeg State is known for, thanks to a new commitmen...

Ledyard ― As Planning & Zoning Commission Chairman Tony Capon announced he will not seek reappointment and would be stepping down at the end of this month, speakers opposing a controversial quarr...

Norwich ― A memorial service Monday evening sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut at Beth Jacob Synagogue rekindled memories of the nearly 1,200 people who died in Israel after Ham...

Denise Desrochers of Plainfield, originally from Biddeford, Maine, has been named program and event manager at the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut. Desrochers holds a Bachelor of Arts ...

Denise Desrochers of Plainfield, originally from Biddeford, Maine, has been named program and event manager at the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut. Desrochers holds a Bachelor of Arts ...

Ledyard ― Gales Ferry Intermodal LLC, which has proposed a controversial 40-acre quarry at the former Dow Chemical site off Route 12, now has plans to deed 3.5 acres of Mount Decatur to a national arc...

Rowan McDonnell remembers being enchanted by the game of Ultimate Frisbee after first watching a competition in Waterford at a softball field near the police station. Now, he’s considered one of the b...

New London ― The Day announced Monday that its newspaper staff will move to a new headquarters in the former Frontier Communications building on State Street, across from City Hall. The move, which ha...

Ledyard ― Proposed amendments to the town’s zoning regulations that would ban large-scale quarrying operations and limit the size of housing development was heard Thursday by the Planning and Zoning ...

Some of the most interesting business stories I’ve encountered during 45 years of covering stories in southeastern Connecticut have involved local people operating on a national level totally under th...

Martin Rutchik of Mystic doesn’t understand the lack of civility today in America, a cancer that he noticed creeping into our discussions of immigration and border policy. “Who says that the people wh...

It’s not easy to keep a family business going for more than 70 years, but Anthony’s Hardware in Jewett City still attracts customers from far and wide, even with a Lowes and Home Depot only a mile aw...

Taso Vitsas will be forever remembered locally as the super-friendly restaurant owner who somehow got his friend and Cleveland Indians star Rajai Davis to wear a Crown Pizza hat during the 2016 World ...