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Simsbury has canceled the Tariffville and Simsbury Memorial Day parades which were both scheduled for May 25. The decision was made due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. “While we all realize the reality of the current situation, we felt it best not to have an event that does not promote social distancing,” parade committee members John Fox and…

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...

Talcott Mountain State Park in Simsbury closed Saturday, along with a handful of other state parks, because its parking lot reached the state’s new capacity guidelines to stop the spread of coronavirus. Once a park shuts its gates for the day, park officials don’t plan on opening them up again that day. Find somewhere else to hike, according to a...

Talcott Mountain State Park in Simsbury closed Saturday, along with a handful of other state parks, because its parking lot reached the state’s new capacity guidelines to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Crews rescued a man at Talcott Mountain State Park in Simsbury on Saturday. Firefighters said they were called to the park around 8:45 a.m. Fire officials worked with LifeStar and Simsbury EMS to rescue one man, according to Simsbury Fire Department Assistant Chief Jason Gilbert. Authorities have not released details about what may have happened to the man or why…

Martin Luther King Jr. is revered as a civil rights leader who has inspired millions of people around the world. Many historians argue the time he spent in Connecticut as a teenager influenced his life. “Coming from the segregated south, coming from Atlanta where he was never given any respect, obviously humiliated by signs of ‘whites only’, of ‘coloreds only’,…

The town of Simsbury created a ride-along program many years ago and ten years later the program is still popular.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2012. Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Simsbury, Connecticut. “On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see,” King wrote his father in June 1944. “After…

With most kids off for a snow day on Tuesday, Snow Monster headed out to find families playing in the piles of snow.

Officials are investigating after a chimney fire at an inn in Simsbury Saturday night.

Ryan Podann, Anthony Shonti and Justin Mazza are three of the most accomplished members of the Special Olympics Connecticut Unified Long Distance Running Team.

It’s been almost one month since a B-17 crashed at Bradley International Airport, killing seven onboard and injuring seven others.

A Massachusetts man is accused of pulling a gun on two people who had arranged to meet with him in Simsbury to sell him an iPhone.

Three weeks after a vintage airplane crashed at Bradley International Airport killing seven people and injuring seven others, the Simsbury Fire Department is hoping the community will help them support two of their own who survived the crash.

The Town of Simsbury is celebrating members of the LGBTQ+ community in a special way with a new rainbow art installation on the East Coast Greenway near the Simsbury Performing Arts Center.

Dozens of Simsbury residents filled the walkway right outside the Performing Arts Center to take part in the celebration of the town’s LGBTQ+ community.

Two Simsbury firefighters were among those taken to the hospital after a deadly plane crash Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.

Executive Director Susan Pribyson explained how they help underemployed people get the basic services they need.

Some students have minor injuries after a pick up hit a bus at the entrance to Central School in Simsbury Friday morning, according to a notification from the school.