The Norwalk Hour

1 week ago | thehour.com | Ken Dixon

HARTFORD — In the waning days of the General Assembly, tensions in the State Capitol are on the rise and hundreds of bills are in danger of expiring when next Wednesday night turns into Thursday morning. This is the time of the year when the Republican minorities in the House and Senate can literally run out the clock, especially in the legislative tradition of unlimited debate. In recent days, there have been examples of the Yin and Yang.

1 week ago | thehour.com | Brian Dulik

CLEVELAND (AP) — Angel Martínez hit a three-run, go-ahead homer and the Cleveland Guardians scored five times in the eighth inning to rally for a 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday. The Dodgers built a 4-1 lead before Lou Trivino gave up an RBI single to Carlos Santana in the bottom of the seventh. Nolan Jones tied it in the eighth with a two-run single off Tanner Scott (0-1) and Martínez followed with his 394-foot blast off Alex Vesia.

2 weeks ago | thehour.com | Kaitlin Keane

NORWALK — Docked at the Veterans Park and Marina is the newest addition to the fleet of floating classrooms for the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk — a 46-foot-long research vessel named the R/V Sound Explorer. With its speed, agility and capacity to fit 49 passengers and crew, the R/V Sound Explorer is “really a perfect fit” for the aquarium’s immediate and long-term needs, according to Jason Patlis, president and CEO of the aquarium.

3 weeks ago | thehour.com | Lisa Backus

NORWALK — A Connecticut woman facing dozens of animal cruelty charges has been arrested again in the city where she used to live, police said Friday. Sarah Smolak, 28, who lived in Norwalk until a few months ago, was charged in April by Winchester police with dozens of counts of animal cruelty in connection with her care of 27 dogs in that town. Those animals were seized from her Winsted home in March, officials said.

1 month ago | thehour.com | Roger Cleaveland

A strange twist of sportsmanship last Friday at Housatonic Valley Regional High School’s softball field in Falls Village turned a Mountaineers’ win into a loss and then into a possible tie with the result of a game against Gilbert School still not definitively determined in the minds of the two combatants almost a week later.