birthdays

A Vietnam veteran is being honored in a special way by his hometown for his birthday

Emma Ritson was supposed to celebrate her 21st birthday while studying abroad in Barcelona. But her plans, like millions of others, were upended by the coronavirus pandemic. So on her birthday Friday, friends threw her a surprise birthday parade with some help from Simsbury firefighters, police, and the Department of Public Works. One of Ritson’s friends is a firefighter...