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BEACON FALLS — Fast-paced music and bright clothing highlighted a senior project with a personal touch last weekend at Woodland Regional High School. Seniors Brooke...

BEACON FALLS – As a light rain fell a half hour before the graduation ceremonies at Woodland Regional High School were set to begin...

BEACON FALLS — What started out as one woman’s journal to help deal with the emotions of multiple miscarriages is now a published book. In...

For Steve Orloski, teaching is a way of giving back to the system that prepared him for a successful career. A resident of Beacon...

PROSPECT — Robert Chatfield has had many titles over the years: mayor, fire chief, Air Force Serviceman. This year he will be able to...

NAUGATUCK — Terri Takacs’ studio is crammed with color-coded thread, hand-dyed ribbon, and beads, all arranged in neat little holders along the wall, drawers,...

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Kickball players break record, raise $45K for cancer research NAUGATUCK — Records are made to be broken. This past weekend a group of kickball...

She calls almost every day, my “old friend from Oak Terrace.” I can tell by the tenor of her voice, as soon as she greets me, what kind of day she’s having: Sometimes it’s a joyful chirp, quoting scripture and gushing about choir rehearsal; others it’s a smoker’s croak, bitter and depressed and “just about ready to give up.” My friend’s name is Linda Jean Cray. She’s 45, heavyset—though she’s lost a considerable amount of weight recently—with stew-brown hair that flows just over her shoulders. Her smile reveals badly-worn, discolored teeth. A single, front tooth, apparently the survivor of the bunch, remains intact, recalling some cartoonish caricature of a baby.