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School districts in southeastern Connecticut are participating in a program that seeks to develop a diverse education workforce. LEARN, the Regional Educational Service Center working with schools in southeastern Connecticut, is bringing the Teacher Residency Program to its area. The Teacher Residency Program, or TRP, was started by the Capitol Region Education Council in the Hartford region. “Our goal is…

“We didn’t know if we’d be able to do this,” said Jeff Walsh, base commander of the United States Submarines Veterans Club. He said it wasn’t until last Tuesday that they got the green light from the Ledge Light Health District to continue the club’s Thanksgiving tradition. Walsh was joined by dozens of volunteers, scurrying around the Groton clubhouse...

Navy veterans volunteer to help give new recruits in Groton a taste of home on Thanksgiving.

We caught up with the Massachusetts native a week after Election Day to ask about the #trackingKornacki hashtag, all attention he’s getting and exactly how long he stayed awake while at the touchscreen.

The search for a missing person at Bluff Point Park in Groton has ended in tragedy. Officials from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said Wednesday that the man they were searching for was found deceased and his death is believed to have been by suicide. DEEP said the man’s friends reported him missing on Friday. His vehicle...

A man was seriously injured Monday morning after falling 50 feet from a tree in Mystic. The subcontractor was removing limbs from the tree preparing it for removal when the tree snapped beneath him, causing him to fall onto a small shed below, according to police. The incident happened just after 8:15 a.m. on Oral School Road. Groton Town police,…

Crews have recovered the body of a missing boater who was last seen in Groton on Friday afternoon, officials said. Police said the body of 49-year-old Matthew Lyon was recovered Saturday north of Great Gull Island in New York. Lyon was reported overdue from a boating trip at 5 p.m. by his wife after leaving Groton Elks Lodge and Marina,…

The U.S. Coast Guard is in search of a missing boater who was last seen in Groton at around 2 p.m., officials said. A 49-year-old was overdue at 5 p.m. after leaving from Groton Elks Lodge and Marina, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Officials are actively looking for the boater. Officials are looking for the boat pictured above. Anyone...

Registrars of Voters offices across the state were open for extended hours on Tuesday, anticipating the last-minute push to register to vote before Election Day. The deadline for pre-election registration in Connecticut is Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 11:59 p.m. If voters miss the deadline, their only option will be same day registration on Nov. 3. “There has been a steady…

The Town of Groton is now under a red alert status, joining 18 other towns on the list this week. Red alert towns are updated on a weekly basis. Towns are put under a red alert when the average daily case rate meets or exceeds 15 cases per 100,000 population. The Town of Groton was added to the list Thursday…

The Town of Groton was added to the Red Alert list Thursday with an average daily case rate of 17 cases per 100,000 population.

State officials said this past weekend, a fiber optic cable that feeds the state of Connecticut data center in Groton suffered an outage and knocked some state agencies partially offline. “We would not have been able to register any of the online or DMV registrations or if we had registration cards we would not have been able to put them…

One man is injured after a shooting at a hookah lounge in Groton early Sunday morning. Groton Town Police said they received a phone call from a New London police officer who reported that he was on scene at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital’s emergency room for an unrelated incident and learned of a gunshot victim. The officer then told Groton…

The USS Indiana returned to its homeport at Naval Submarine Base, New London in Groton Friday after spending six months at sea. The crew departed during the very early stages of the pandemic. When the crew members left for deployment, masks were not a requirement in Connecticut. “Nothing was like this,” said Destinee Davis, as she waited for her fiance….

More than 100 sailors returned home to Groton on Friday after six months away at sea and in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police are investigating after the body of a 37-year-old Hartford man was found in the water off Eastern Point Beach in Groton on Aug. 28. Police received a call of a body floating in the water around 12:15 p.m. that Friday and they recovered Javon Reynolds. Police said his death does not appear to be suspicious. They cause of his…

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on an investigation after a plane crashed into a home on Ring Drive in Groton, near Groton-New London Airport, on Aug. 17. Two people who were in the plane — a flight instructor and a pilot who was undergoing instruction — were able to get out safely after the crash…

A plane crashed into a home on Ring Drive in Groton on Monday night. Two people who were in the plane were able to get out safely after the crash. They were taken to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London with non-life threatening injuries, police said. One man was in the home when the plane crashed into the roof…

A plane crashed into a house in Groton and the homeowner was able to safely escape following the terrifying ordeal.

A plane crashed into a house in Groton on Monday night and neighbors describe the anxious moments they went through.