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The Constitution, former weekly newspaper, including during 1842-1884 [4] [6] The Daily Herald, former daily newspaper [6] Evening Press, including 1918-1919, daily ex. Sun. [4] Fairfield Minuteman, closed 2017; Farmington Valley Herald [7] The Hartford Times (1817–1976) [8] Manchester Herald [9] The Meriden Journal [10]
Police forces, volunteer firefighters, Connecticut National Guard members, the Coast Guard, and average citizens worked together to rescue people from their homes and other buildings where they became stranded. [14] At 1:00 AM on August 19, as the water began rising over the banks of several rivers, Gov. Abraham Ribicoff mobilized the National ...
Covering Westerly (including the village of Bradford) and the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, Connecticut. Total-market carrier delivery every Wednesday. Wood River Press. Covering Exeter, Hopkinton and parts of Richmond, Rhode Island—including the villages of Ashaway, Carolina, Hope Valley, Rockville, West Kingston, Wood River Junction and ...
The term Farmington Valley, as used in the local vernacular, refers primarily to the towns of Farmington, Avon, Simsbury, Canton and Granby. However, when defined by the course of the Farmington River, or by its entire watershed, the term can refer to large areas of land across the north central portion of Connecticut and into southern ...
The Connecticut Valley Hospital Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Silvermine Road in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1878, it served as the burying ground for patients of the Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane until 1957. Its design and layout are reflective of institutional cemetery practices of the period, with uniform numbered ...
Ensign-Bickford Industries, founded in Simsbury in 1836, is still headquartered in town. The Pinchot Sycamore, an American sycamore in Simsbury, is the largest tree in Connecticut. According to a measurement made in 1998, the tree was 26 feet (7.9 m) around and 95 feet (29 m) tall, with an average canopy diameter of 140 feet (43 m).
The Chronicle is a daily newspaper published in Willimantic, Connecticut, serving the Windham area and the eastern Connecticut counties of Windham, Tolland, and New London. It was founded in 1877 and currently publishes editions from Monday to Saturday, with an approximate circulation of 3,000.
In 1967, Neil Ellis, a real estate developer with an interest in journalism, bought two weekly newspapers, the Rockville Journal and South and East Windsor Inquirer. The weeklies were merged into the daily Journal Inquirer in 1968. [1] The paper moved from a garage in the Rockville section of Vernon to its present location in Manchester in 1974.