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A neighbor’s dog alerted a family in Bethel of a fire on their back porch early Sunday morning. The fire happened at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Putnam Park Road, firefighters said. When crews arrived, they found a fire on the back porch of a home with the family inside sleeping and unaware. Police evacuated the home while crews worked...

A 9-year-old boy from Bethel has the scoop on all the best eateries in town. Once Nicholas Zaccagno realized how the COVID-19 pandemic was impacting local businesses, he started a YouTube page, called “Nicky Will Eat It,” featuring restaurants in town and giving his own reviews by making mini commercials. “When this coronavirus happened … we saw all the businesses…

Marianne Mahoney has lived in Bethel for 37 years. When Hurricane Gloria knocked out power at her house in 1985, her family invested in a generator. It’s that same generator, purchased more than three decades ago, she has been relying on for more than a week. As of 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, Mahoney was still without power, a serious problem for…

The Bethel Police Department finally had power restored Monday, six days after Tropical Storm Isaias. The department ran on a generator and First Selectman Matthew Knickerbocker said the delay is unacceptable. “We have been calling and calling and calling and saying right here in our very critical department that our community relies on, they could not get power,” said Knickerbocker….

With much of his town in the dark nearly a week after Isaias, Bethel’s first selectman is demanding answers from Eversource on the power company’s response to the storm.

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.