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A biotech company contemplating a move into Windsor has paid nearly $4.4 million for a roughly 40-acre building site in Windsor’s Great Pond Village mixed-use development.
People in our state remembered the victims from Texas: 19 children and two teachers who tried to protect them. Many of the kids were fourth graders. Vigils were held across the state to pay tribute. “It’s surreal and it is incredibly painful,” said Rev. Shawn Fisher of the Bloomfield Congregational Church. People came together outside the...
The Charter Oak Brass Band, based in Coventry, will perform “Hymn of the Highlands” at its spring concert Saturday, May 21, at 4 p.m. at Bloomfield Congregational Church, 10 Wintonbury Ave.
A car slammed into the back of a school bus carrying children in Bloomfield Tuesday morning, according to police. The crash happened on Blue Hills Avenue. Police said the car drove into the back of the bus. There were about 10 kids on the bus and no one on the bus was hurt, according to police. The age of the...
Gas prices have hit record highs across the country with regular unleaded averaging $4.37 a gallon and diesel up to $5.55 a gallon, according to AAA. In Connecticut, the prices are even higher with diesel averaging $6.32 a gallon. Drivers who spoke with NBC Connecticut said these prices are brutal. “Terrible, awful,” said Roy Hernandez, a...
A wanted man’s extraordinary effort to avoid arrest failed when got stuck in an apartment building’s HVAC unit for two hours, Bloomfield police said.
Bloomfield Police said a man was hiding inside his apartment’s wall HVAC vent for hours in an effort to avoid bail enforcement officers. Officials said they were called to West Lane to assist 47-year-old Juan Vasquez, who appears to have been stuck in the wall. Bail enforcement officers were at Vasquez’s house earlier in the day Wednesday to...