The Lakeville Journal

The freshly redesigned website for the Town of Cornwall was developed by Rocco Botto and launched this month. Photo submitted

Ambitious new town website is a site to see

CORNWALL — With fanfare, the town of Cornwall has rolled out a new town website and its creators are urging everyone to take a look and explore its nooks and crannies. To tour the new site go to www.cornwallct.org. Dubbed “the greatest website in the greenest town” the site was designed from the...

Government red tape seems to be standing in the way of a service station opening at Routes 7 and 63. The soil has been tested and is not contaminated. Photo by Alexander Wilburn

Service station at Routes 7/63 in Falls Village not quite ready to open yet

FALLS VILLAGE — The Board of Selectmen agreed to keep paying Assistant Town Clerk Arlene Benninger and pick up part of her health insurance costs until the next meeting of the Board of Finance on Feb. 8. First Selectman Henry Todd explained that Town Clerk Mary Palmer is experiencing medical...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D), at left, spoke with pastor and food drive organizer Steven Darr, at right, at the First Congregational Church in Torrington on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Photo by Hunter O. Lyle

Murphy speaks out on food insecurity, and the Capitol attack

TORRINGTON — To combat the rising threat of food insecurity, which has only been made more prevalent with the pandemic, the First Congregational Church in Torrington has continued its decade-long mission of feeding its community. Hundreds gathered at Major Besse Park in Torrington early on Tuesday...

Photo by Lans Christensen

A holiday from chill temperatures

It was relatively warm on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 18 — until snow flurries kicked up in mid afternoon. But for many, the holiday offered an opportunity to get out and get some fresh air. There was a steady stream of visitors, for example, at Kent Falls.

The photo of two unidentified women on shore with the Twin Lakes causeway in the background is a view shown from the Miles property. Photo courtesy of the Salisbury Association Historical Society

The history of the CNE Railroad and the Twin Lakes causeway

To Salisbury residents, it must have been like a miracle. Seemingly overnight, travel to North Canaan village became a 20-minute ride over smooth steel rails instead of an hours-long trek on foot, horseback or oxcart over rutted dirt roads and steep hills. Fresh milk from Salisbury farms could now...

This Blackberry River rainbow was caught at Beckley Furnace in North Canaan in early April with a heavy squirmy red worm fly tied by Harold McMillan at Housatonic River Outfitters. The fish was returned to the water unharmed. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan

Looking back: Specks of good news in challenging year

There was one very good thing that happened in 2020: It was the year I finally got the hang of fishing with specks. I define “specks” as flies size 20 and smaller. Itty bitty bugs are present on all trout waters, usually year-round. Trout eat them, and anglers using the right imitations catch the...

Cornwall

The freshly redesigned website for the Town of Cornwall was developed by Rocco Botto and launched this month. Photo submitted

January 20, 2021

Ambitious new town website is a site to see

CORNWALL — With fanfare, the town of Cornwall has rolled out a new town website and its creators are urging everyone to take a look and explore its nooks and crannies. To tour...

Ambitious new town website is a site to see

Selectmen discuss internet, housing plans

America’s belief in fantasy, and how it impacts our politics

Kent

January 20, 2021

Budgets and changes explored at Jan. 12 hearing

KENT — Spending proposals and ordinance changes drew nearly 50 residents to attend a public hearing conducted by Zoom on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Details of two spending proposals,...

Budgets and changes explored at Jan. 12 hearing

Grant for Kent housing

Dreamy sweets in downtown Kent

Salisbury

January 20, 2021

Radicalism and religion spawned on Route 20

SALISBURY — The idea of a psychic highway drawing all sorts of radical thinkers to a nearby region was enough to draw an audience of nearly 90 members arranged in Zoom squares to...

Radicalism and religion spawned on Route 20

Persistence in the face of anger

Ridership is down by 78% on Metro-North

Falls Village

Government red tape seems to be standing in the way of a service station opening at Routes 7 and 63. The soil has been tested and is not contaminated. Photo by Alexander Wilburn

January 20, 2021

Service station at Routes 7/63 in Falls Village not quite ready to open yet

FALLS VILLAGE — The Board of Selectmen agreed to keep paying Assistant Town Clerk Arlene Benninger and pick up part of her health insurance costs until the next meeting of the...

Service station at Routes 7/63 in Falls Village not quite ready to open yet

For now, students are back in schools

Numbers have shifted

North Canaan

January 13, 2021

Tax extension in effect in North Canaan until April 1

NORTH CANAAN — Discussing the recent Governor’s Executive Order allowing tax payment deferrals, the Board of Selectmen acted to extend for three months the Jan. 1 payment deadline...

Tax extension in effect in North Canaan until April 1

P&Z hears Geer plans for new 120-bed facility

Solar panel company will pay taxes to town

Sharon

January 6, 2021

COVID-19 update: Sharon Hospital coronavirus testing

SHARON, Conn. — Testing for COVID-19 will move to an appointment-only basis at Sharon Hospital until further notice. All specimen collections at the hospital are completed in an...

COVID-19 update: Sharon Hospital coronavirus testing

A tribute to a lovely library that needs to grow

David R. Chase