Steve Bigham

1 week ago | ctinsider.com | Steve Bigham

OXFORD - Police charged an Oxford man with animal cruelty after 24 dogs were seized from his home Tuesday. Officials said the dogs were in bad shape and living in deplorable conditions. John Artese, 59, of Little Punkup Road, faces one misdemeanor charge after Oxford police, as well as state and local animal control officers responded to the home Tuesday morning.

3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Steve Bigham

WOODBURY - The Region 14 Board of Education is hoping its latest round of cuts - including the elimination of a full-time teaching position - will be enough to get its proposed 2025-26 budget passed on the third try Tuesday. The new budget to go before voters in Bethlehem and Woodbury has been set at $42.7 million, a 3.6% increase.

3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Steve Bigham

SEYMOUR - The decades-long fight to restore the once heavily polluted Naugatuck River took a major step forward Thursday with the announcement that $25 million in state funds will go toward the removal of the Kinneytown Dam. "I was over the moon when I heard the news this morning," said Kevin Zak of the Naugatuck River Revival Group. "It puts meaning into the phrase, 'environmental justice.' The project is going to get done and it's going to fix a wrong.

3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Steve Bigham

WOLCOTT - An estimated 8,000 people gathered this past weekend at the Woodtick Recreational Area to visit a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an event two years in the making, and one that brought emotion and reflection to this small town. The replica, known as "The Wall that Heals," is a 3/5 scale of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., standing six-feet tall at the center and covering nearly the length of a football field from end-to end.

4 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Steve Bigham

WATERBURY - A congregation gathered at the Grace Baptist Church on Wednesday night to pray for peace, healing and strength in the wake of Tuesday's shooting inside the Brass Mill Center mall that injured five people and shocked the community. "I know the pain that our community is going through right now," the Rev. Kristopher Reese told the 50 or so in attendance at the Kingsbury Street church. "Yesterday was heartbreaking, but thanks be to God that no lives were lost.