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SOUTHINGTON — State police charged a 44-year-old Hartford man originally from Puerto Rico with manslaughter, evading responsibility and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in connec...
My last column, featuring the Wilson’s phalarope, discussed the diversity of the shorebirds, breaking them down into several categories, ranging from the numerous sandpipers and plovers to the ...
https://www.rep-am.com/columns/2024/05/31/hard-to-move-black-necked-stilt-from-spotlight/
Sarah McLachlan thinks of her first trip to Los Angeles as a cautionary tale. Signed to Clive Davis’ Arista Records when she was all of 20, the Canadian singer and songwriter from Halifax ventu...
Reality show contestants are fiercely protective of how they look on screen. For Chloe Veitch, one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s risque dating series “Too Hot to Handle,” that kind of ...
https://www.rep-am.com/life-arts/2024/05/31/netflix-using-games-to-build-its-audience/
WATERBURY – Alderman Minority Leader Ruben Rodriguez said the Republican caucus plans to present an alternative to Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski Jr.’s $446.7 million budget for 2024-25 that inclu...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/waterbury-gop-cites-understaffed-departments/
PLYMOUTH – The public school system has chosen literary coach Nicole Levesque as its teacher of the year. Levesque has worked in the district for 19 years. She is assigned to Harry S. Fisher El...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/plymouth-honors-two-teachers/
GOSHEN – The Board of Selectmen’s tour of town-owned cemeteries to assess damaged gravestones resumed Friday when First Selectman Todd Carusillo and Selectmen Dexter S. Kinsella and Scott Ols...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/goshen-looks-to-repair-damaged-gravestones/
TORRINGTON – Found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl following a trial in March, Michael Mansfield was sentenced Friday in Torrington Superior Court to 19 years in prison, nearly twice the m...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/winsted-man-gets-19-years-for-sex-assault/
THOMASTON – A Plymouth man was charged with assaulting and strangling a well-known public official. Joseph Zanavich, 57, of 262 South St., is accused of punching and choking Michael Burr – a ...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/man-charged-in-assault-on-thomaston-selectman/
SALISBURY – Salisbury Winter Sports Association has announced the kickoff of its capital campaign to rebuild the Satre Hill ski jumping complex’s 30-meter hill and tower. SWSA officials said ...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/salisbury-ski-jump-needs-funds-for-rebuild/
STAMFORD – A woman convicted of helping her boyfriend plot and cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, during contentious divorce and child custody proceedings in Connecticut...
Shaming is the new phenomenon. We hear it all the time in the news lately and all over social media. Age shaming and body shaming are becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Age shaming,...
https://www.rep-am.com/opinion/letters-opinion/2024/05/31/shaming-everyone-for-anything/
I have reservations about a judge who would allow Stormy Daniels’ testimony, which had nothing to do with Donald Trump’s trial. This was done only to destroy Trump’s credibility. The trial ...
https://www.rep-am.com/opinion/letters-opinion/2024/05/31/trial-was-about-trumps-credibility/
The latest assault on freedom in the name of better public health goes by the name “Tobacco Free Generation,” or TFG. Cities and states that adopt this provision, already in place in Brooklin...
https://www.rep-am.com/opinion/editorials/2024/05/31/nanny-state-strikes-again/
WATERBURY Waterbury police recently filed the following charges: MARVETTE BRYE, 35, of 225 Bishop St., first-degree failure to appear. JENNIFER NAVARRO, 41, of 22 W. Porter St., third-degree assa...
https://www.rep-am.com/local/records/police/2024/05/31/waterbury-police-blotter-53/
WINSTED – Debra A. (Zaccara) Bouchard died May 25, 2024. Friends may call on June 4, 2024, at Montano-Shea Funeral Home, 922 Main St., Winsted, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. with a Mass at noon at St...
https://www.rep-am.com/obituaries/2024/05/31/debra-a-bouchard/
For nearly eight years, My Ride has been celebrating classic cars and trucks, and even educating a bit with minutia from automotive history. More than 300 stories on vintage vehicles and their ow...
https://www.rep-am.com/life-arts/2024/05/31/a-different-kind-of-reunion/
WINSTED – Richard H. Simmons died May 11, 2024. Graveside services will be June 15, 2024, at Forest View Cemetery, Winsted, at 11 a.m. Visit an online guest book at montano-shea.com.
https://www.rep-am.com/obituaries/2024/05/31/richard-h-simmons/
HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont on Friday signed legislation appropriating up to $400 million in expiring federal COVID-19 funds to supplement $26 billion in previously approved state spending. The ...
WINSTED – Donna L. Wills died May 27, 2024. Friends may call on June 19, 2024 at Montano-Shea Funeral Home, 922 Main St., Winsted, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. with a Mass at St. Joseph Church at no...
Today in History: June 1, the Beatles release ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ By The Associated Press undefined Today in History Today is Saturday, June 1, the 153rd day of 2024. Th...
https://www.rep-am.com/today_in_history/2024/05/31/today-in-history-june-1-2/
BY PAUL HUGHES | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN HARTFORD — State officials are warning of an ongoing impostor scam targeting users of the state’s eLicense system in an attempt to steal their personal in...
TORRINGTON — Found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl following a trial in March, Michael Mansfield was sentenced Friday in Superior Court to 19 years behind bars, nearly twice the minimum ma...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/winsted-man-gets-19-years-for-sexual-assault-of-girl/
What kind of day will tomorrow be? To find out what the stars say, read the forecast given for your birth sign. For Saturday, June 1, 2024 Today was made for having fun. The cosmos gift us some l...
https://www.rep-am.com/horoscope/2024/05/31/horoscope-for-saturday-june-1-2024/
Today in History: June 1, the Beatles release ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ By The Associated Press undefined Today in History Today is Saturday, June 1, the 153rd day of 2024. Th...
https://www.rep-am.com/today_in_history/2024/05/31/today-in-history-june-1-3/
The Naugatuck Chamber’s 19th annual Naugatuck Duck Race & Festival will be Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Whittemore Bridge on Maple Street. Duck race starts promptly at 2 p.m. The day wi...
https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2024/05/31/duck-day-in-sunday-in-naugatuck/
GOSHEN — Town Clerk Barbara Breor has been given the green light by Republicans to challenge state Rep. Maria Horn, D-Salisbury, for the 64th House District seat in the Nov. 5 election. Breor r...
WATERBURY — The 19th annual Albanian Festival is June 7-8 at Albanian American Moslem Community Center, 38 Raymond St. The event will feature live music, traditional Albanian food, dance perfor...
TORRINGTON — Five of Torrington Middle School’s Talented and Gifted students will take part in the national Junior Group Performance next month. The eighth-graders chose the project, “The H...