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The town of Bethel has decided to cancel its summer camps and programs this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Parks and Recreation officials said after talking with the parks association and health department, they have decided to cancel all summer programming this year. The cancellation includes summer playground camps, basketball camp, baseball camp, tennis camps and lessons, Skyhawks, U.S....

Gov. Ned Lamont’s latest executive order prohibits day camps that weren’t already operating as of May 5 from beginning operations until June 22 and cancels resident camps. He is also prohibiting summer school programs from starting before July 6 “unless earlier extended, modified, or terminated by the governor.”

Who are Bethel’s Blue Sharks? It’s a question some are asking after a pair dressed in shark costumes was spotted at Caraluzzi’s Bethel Market late last month. Video posted online by Meghan Keating shows the sharks getting their grocery shopping done, waving with their fins. Many commented that they had also spotted the sharks, a moment of levity in...

Who are Bethel’s Blue Sharks? It’s a question some are asking after a pair dressed in shark costumes was spotted at Caraluzzi’s Bethel Market last month.

The former treasurer and concession director of a private children’s baseball association in Bethel are accused of embezzling more than $25,000 from the club. Bethel police said they arrested Kurt and Jennifer Dyer, of Bethel, and charged them with first degree larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny in the first degree after the new treasurer of the Bethel Baseball Association…

Three school buses are damaged after a fire in Bethel on Sunday morning. Bethel & Stony Hill Volunteers were dispatched to the bus depot on Henry Street for the report of multiple buses on fire just before 2:30 a.m. According to Stony Hill Volunteer Fire Department the quick actions of the Bethel Police Department helped from making the destruction worse….

Police in Connecticut are looking for the vandal or vandals who damaged seven wheelchair-accessible vans a nonprofit uses to transport people with disabilities. The vans had their catalytic converters disconnected and taken sometime last weekend while parked at Ability Beyond’s Bethel office, Ability Beyond’s Alisa Picerno told NBC Connecticut. The damage to the vans is estimated at around $10,000,...

A Bethel man has been charged with murder in the death of another man found with multiple gunshots wounds.

Police are investigating a homicide in Bethel and said the suspect is in custody in New Milford on charges connected to a case there.

Bethel police got a call for a possible suicide on Monday, but it quickly turned into a homicide investigation.

Police have identified the man who is accused of fatally stabbing a woman in Bethel on Saturday.

Jay-Z’s got 99 problems but Woodstock isn’t one: The rap king has pulled out of the 50th anniversary Woodstock festival just weeks before the troubled event is supposed to take place.

State police stopped a car on Interstate 84 in Bethel Thursday morning because it did not have a front license plate and said they found marijuana in a child’s lunchbox.

Bethel Middle School will be closed on Monday after a fire broke out inside of the school on Sunday afternoon.

A Silver Alert has been canceled for an 84-year-old man who was reported missing from Bethel on Monday.

A three-day music festival will be held in August 2019 at the original Woodstock concert site to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic event. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a concert venue built on the original Woodstock site, announced Thursday that it will host the golden anniversary event Aug. 16-18. The center says performers will include “prominent...

Police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck in Bethel on Thursday and seriously injured.

A military aircraft crash in Australia has hit a community in Maine. One of the three Marines presumed dead in the crash is 1st Lt. Benjamin Cross, of Bethel, Maine.