DAR MEETING The Sarah Williams Danielson Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 1 p.m. at the Chapter House, 36 Wolf Den Road, Brooklyn.

A Connecticut education official says the state has its first swine flu outbreak at a public school this year.

Health officials in northeastern Connecticut are monitoring increased absenteeism at Brooklyn Elementary School , which may be due to suspected cases of the swine flu.

ALBANY - Drug-law reforms that took effect Wednesday give judges discretion to place nonviolent drug offenders into treatment rather than incarceration, greatly expand addiction-treatment programs and enable nearly 1,100 prisoners to petition for re-sentencing. Gov.

Hundreds of low-level drug offenders in New York prisons became eligible Wednesday for shortened sentences or release under recent changes in state law.

Governor David Paterson marked the start of the judicial diversion program, part of the Rockefeller Drug Law reform he signed into law last April.

Fryeburg Fair President Roy Andrews presented Gloria Hadley of West Paris with special award commemorating her 30 years of showing at the fair.

SPEN businesses are gearing up for their major showcase event of the year. Organised by the Spenborough Chamber of Trade and Town Centre management, Spen Valley Expo 2009 will be held on Thursday October 29, at the Gomersal Park Hotel.

A Town of Greenwich institution returns tonight at 8 p.m. with the kickoff of Friends Friday Films at Greenwich Library's Cole Auditorium.

Submitted by Donna McCalla on 2009-09-16.   Prudence Crandall is one of Connecticut's most famous leaders in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery movement.

A former TV3 Winchester reporter has been granted bond after having been denied it twice.

A judge has granted bond to a former local TV reporter jailed on child pornography and sex crime charges.

WINCHESTER -- A judge has set a $25,000 bond for the release of a former TV reporter accused of committing sex crimes involving a 14-year-old girl.

Submitted by Laura Soll on 2009-09-01.   Summer may be almost over, but Greater Hartford residents can enjoy fresh locally grown vegetables and fruit, and homemade foods and crafts through October at a new farmers' market in Windsor.

He won't be the heaviest person going into season seven of "The Biggest Loser" . But Rudy Pauls, an engineer from Brooklyn, Conn., will be among the the 16 contestants signed up to work out and be yelled at by Bob Harler and Jillian Michaels, and to be weighed in by Alison Sweeney, on what must be the slowest scale on TV.