Jim Arconti of Brookfield is well aware of the current economic climate, yet he is willing to ask friends, colleagues, even strangers, for money.

Ken Mann of Danbury couldn't believe his good fortune Thursday afternoon. He was able to drive to the Main Moon Chinese restaurant near the Four Corners on Federal Road without idling in one of the highway's notorious traffic jams.

Sarah Palin country, it is not. But at the Border's bookstore on Federal Road in Danbury Tuesday -- where latte drinkers stare intently into their laptops and young girls write poetry in longhand in the store window -- the salmon-fishing, moose-carcass dressing, hockey mom from Wasilla was outselling Stephen King .

Charles Dickens ' "A Christmas Carol," with a new perspective, opens Friday night at 8 at the Town Players Little Theatre on Orchard Hill Road, off Route 25 South in Newtown.

We would like to thank Billie Dolan for writing your letter to the editor and bringing awareness to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's National Survivors of Suicide Day.

By 2030, two-thirds of the world's citizens will not have access to clean drinking water, according to the United Nations.

Since state funding for public health is about to expire, Brookfield officials will either have to merge its health department with another town's department or assume all public health costs for town residents.

For the past 25 years, M. Jodi Rell has been a part of the Connecticut scene, as a state representative from Brookfield, as lieutenant governor and, for the past five years, as the state's governor.

After witnessing the horticultural monster on display in the cheery, blood-drenched "The Little Shop of Horrors," you may question the motives of anyone who brings you a potted plant as a house gift.

It was a sunny day back in a dark time, on July 1, 2004, when then-Lt. Gov. M. Jodi Rell suddenly found herself on the north steps of the Capitol, accepting a howitzer salute and reciting the governor's oath of office.

She shopped at the Brookfield Market, where her signed, framed photograph hangs over the meat counter.

A 25-year-old New Milford man was arrested on charges of drunken driving early Saturday morning, according to police.

Since the outbreak of the H1N1 virus, Brookfield-based American Dry Basement Systems never has been busier disinfecting homes and businesses with a botanical agent.

Tuesday's election in Brookfield was not about politics, it was about our community.

The report about tunnels filled with bones at Candlewood Shores was true. A related one about a student who might have brought a hand grenade to school wasn't. But it took police and school administrators nearly three hours to separate the intertwined tales Wednesday morning, and in the interim, Whisconier Middle School students were evacuated ...