A teenage girl who is accused of hitting and killing an 84-year-old woman in Glastonbury in January, then leaving the scene, has been charged.   Police said the teen, a 17-year-old Glastonbury girl, was arrested on Tuesday when she turned herself in at the police department. Police said the victim, 84-year-old Valda Dienavs, was crossing Griswold Street to get her…

Schools in Glastonbury are shut down for at least two weeks because of the pandemic, leaving 700 kids with free or reduced price lunches uncertain of where those meals will come from. Local churches and synagogues decided to step in by holding a food drive on Sunday to help families in need. “It’s pretty close to what would need to…

Schools in Glastonbury are shut down for at least two weeks because of the pandemic, leaving 700 kids with free or reduced price lunches uncertain of where those meals will come from.

Schools in Glastonbury are shut down for at least two weeks because of the pandemic, leaving 700 kids with free of reduced price lunches uncertain of where those meals will come from.

Kids for Kids, based out of Glastonbury, teaches children to help other children.

Jackie Post, Founder of The Scoop Glastonbury, told us about the exciting new businesses in town.

Families and friends came together to celebrate the grand opening of a new breast milk depository at ProHealth Physicians, Glastonbury Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine on Saturday. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the sixth location in Connecticut and adds to a network of 30 depots created by the Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast. A breast milk depository is a network location where pre-screened…

Glastonbury police have seized a vehicle involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash last week. Police said 84-year-old Valda Dienavs was crossing Griswold Street to get her mail when she was hit and killed on Thursday afternoon. On Tuesday investigators confirmed they have the vehicle involved and spoke to the driver, a 17-year-old girl. The investigation is ongoing and no charges…

A Glastonbury High School student has been diagnosed with mumps and school officials have notified parents. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus and it typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Then most people will have swelling of their…

Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus and it typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An 84-year-old woman was hit and killed by a vehicle in Glastonbury on Thursday. The accident happened just after noon in the 400 block of Griswold Street, according to police, and the vehicle involved left the scene, police said. Police believe the 84-year-old victim, Valda Dienavs, of Glastonbury, was crossing the street to get the mail when she was hit….

Police believe the 84-year-old victim was crossing the street to get the mail when she was hit.

A section of Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury is closed after a car crashed into a pole Thursday morning. According to officials, a car with three passengers crashed into a pole just after 1:30 a.m. Firefighters said the vehicle had three people inside and one was out of the vehicle when crews arrived. The other two were removed once the power…

A section of Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury is closed after a car crashed into a pole Thursday morning.

Some of the best holiday displays might be just a quick drive from your home. From the dozen inflatables to the thousands of lights about an acre of a front yard on Chalker Hill in Glastonbury is transformed each holiday season. “It’s about spreading the spirit of the season,” said Ken Keeney. “It’s the stressors of life, it’s taking...

Glastonbury police officer Ken Keeney hopes to make a difference for others through the holiday display he puts up at his home.

For 40 years, the Glastonbury Police Department has gone without a K9 officer. The decades long void has caused support from the community in hopes to bring back a K9 division. Lidija Petrus started the grassroots efforts and decided to begin making bandanas in hopes to raise money for the initiative. Earlier this year, Glastonbury’s Police Department announced that they…

Two houses have been evacuated and there were power outages after a tree fell on a power line and caused transformer fires and a gas line fire in Glastonbury on Saturday morning. Glastonbury police and fire department were called to 62 Strickland Street around 6:30 a.m. after getting a report of a tree on wires. When firefighters arrived, officials said…

Two houses have been evacuated and there are hundreds of power outages after a tree fell on a power line and caused transformer fires and a gas line fire in Glastonbury on Saturday morning.