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BY LIVI STANFORD REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Picking up the phone and hearing her son’s frantic, screaming voice on the other end, Bambi Vazquez could not fathom the news,...

NAUGATUCK — I went into Lorraine Warren’s lecture Thursday night a firm believer that when we die, we return to dust and our souls...

At the outset of this all-decade project, there was nearly nothing set in stone. There was an enormous amount of research that needed to be done to properly choose the members of each team and best rank each of the top lists. There was a least one thing that was a sure bet from the beginning, though, and that was Naugatuck’s top athlete of the decade: Brian Mariano. Mariano’s exploits in Garnet and Grey are stuff of legend: He won 11 NVL titles in 11 varsity seasons, was a combined six-time all-NVL selection, a five-time all-state honoree, once an All-New England pick, twice an All-America honorable mention, twice an All-America choice, and a national champion, all of which came in soccer and diving (of course, the latter was his bread and butter). Not bad for a guy who never planned on stepping foot on the one-meter springboard.

BY MICHAEL CHAIKEN REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Gaze at the cars and skateboarders while you fill your belly and sip wine slushees this weekend in Naugatuck as Naugapalooza...

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NAUGATUCK — Four years into the new millennium, about the only person interested in the few scattered buildings still standing on the vast former...

NAUGATUCK — You hear some surnames more than others here in the borough: Mezzo, Bronko and Rossi. Plasky and Pompei. Lately, it’s been Donovan...

PROSPECT — Sometimes angels don’t fly; they ride bikes. This will be the ninth year that the nonprofit organization Angel Charitable Trust hosts the AngelRide...

NAUGATUCK — It took a few good men, a woman willing to take a chance and a bit of luck for a local man...