Dr Anna Paula Machado, the Newtown School Districta TMs medical advisor, recently spoke to The Newtown Bee about the safety and effectiveness of the more abundant H1N1 flu mist vaccine as an alternative to the injectable version, which is currently in short supply.
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.
Students in Washington, Roxbury and Bridgewater, which make up Regional School District 12 in western Connecticut, are getting an extended weekend, but not by choice. Wednesday was a planned day off for Veteran's Day observances, but school officials decided to cancel classes Thursday and Friday as well to deal with ...
The sale of Villarina's Pasta & Fine Food store was bittersweet this week as owner Holly Slupatchuk bid farewell to the business her late husband, Bill, opened three years ago.
A 16-year-old Roxbury youth was killed and three other teens were injured, one of them critically, when their speeding car went out of control, hit a ledge and overturned on Route 47 Thursday afternoon, police said.
Longtime selectman Neil Cable has officially thrown his hat into the ring as an independent petitioning candidate for Bridgewater first selectman for the Nov.
The Animal Welfare Society , at 8 Dodd Road in New Milford, will celebrate another year of service to the Bridgewater, Brookfield, New Milford, Roxbury and Washington communities in sheltering and caring for abandoned and neglected animals at Fur Ball 2009.
It's no secret -- Barrie Goldstein has a passion for the law. For more than 30 years she served in the federal and state trial and appellate courts in New York, during which time she was involved in a number of significant cases.
Bridgewater First Selectman Bill Stuart is elated that the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of his town's suit to halt elementary school consolidation in Region 12.