Five quick weeks into the school year and your workload is beginning to pick up.

Five men were rescued off North Dumpling Island in Long Island Sound Saturday morning after their fiberglass power boat sank.

Municipalities across the state received stimulus monies worth $840,000 to finance local crime-prevention and public-safety efforts, Gov.

Serious sea kayakers relish winter paddling for its wild weather, waves, and uncrowded waters.

Serious sea kayakers relish winter paddling for its wild weather, waves, and uncrowded waters.

Annie Higgins, 14, remains on the dock as her sister Cathy, 14, second from left, and friends Hannah Borowiec, 10, left, Mary Kate Bourdon, 14, right, Madison Borowiec, 12, second from right, and Taylor Borowiec, 13, third from right, take the plunge off the dock at Groton Long Point's South Beach on Monday.

After reading the letters to the editor Monday, I am still astonished there continues to be an outcry about the removal of a rock in Groton Long Point.

As someone who has been a summer resident of Groton Long Point for 65 years, I read with astonishment and sadness of the demolition of Patriot Rock .

Groton - Deposited by a glacier thousands of years ago at a strategic spot overlooking Palmer Cove, the squarish granite block known as Patriot Rock or, simply, "the big rock," has embodied history and nostalgia for generations.

The Representative Town Meeting has finished its deliberations and approved a budget of nearly $118.1 million for the 2009-10 fiscal year - about $437,000 less than the Town Council approved last month.

The town, city and Groton Long Point police departments will all run "Click It or Ticket" seat belt enforcement patrols beginning today until May 31.