Rita Christopher

Hope, of course, springs eternal. The HOPE Partnership has been around for 20 years, and the non-profit organization has built up an impressive record of accomplishments during that time. HOPE is marking its 20th anniversary with a celebration at The Kate in Old Saybrook on Monday, June 3 at 5:30 p.m.

Graduation from high school, freshman year to senior year, is a journey. For Mulanga Drysile Kazadi, who will graduate from Valley Regional High School (VRHS) in June, it has been a journey of over 6,...

The New York Mets are having what has become an all too familiar season: mediocre at best. But there is at least one new thing going forward. Skip Hubbard will have more time to watch the team he has ...

It's not Marian the Librarian's library anymore. It's a community center, an electronic research resource, a place to make a craft project, hear an author speak, or see a classic movie.

Everybody knows about summer reading. It is generally what students start, and sometimes finish, the week before school starts.

The Fourth of July is a day for fireworks, barbecues, and relaxing with family, but for at least 1,000 people, the holiday will be a day of exertion and effort.

Leslie Barlow didn't have her moment last Fourth of July. She and her husband Cotty were slated to be the grand marshals of the Ivoryton Independence Day Parade, except that there was no parade, as it was cancelled by rain.

If a ship had not run aground on a reef, one of Bill Furgueson's ancestors never would have arrived at Fire Island. However, as the family story has it, Bill made it to shore and to a community with the kind of name which could make a realtor looking for a quick sale shudder: Lonelyville.

Sidewalks are for hopscotch grids, tic-tac-toe diagrams, and pictures drawn with brightly colored chalk. However, for those who are beyond their hopscotch and sidewalk art days, sidewalks can not only be for safe strolling, but also for satisfying shopping.

Once, coffee was a 25-cent cuppa joe served in a thick ceramic mug at the counter where locals gathered in the morning to hash over everything from politics and the weather to, well, hash with an egg ...