Simsbury

On David Drive, just down the block from Jacquelyn Leopold’s house in Simsbury, a 50-foot branch sat across the road, 36 hours after Tropical Storm Isaias swept through. Leopold and her husband, Deputy First Selectman Sean Askham, have been hunkering down in their home with five-week-old daughter Audrey and four-year-old Eleanor for the past 48 hours.  “I feel like they…

Frustrations are growing in Simsbury as some people say they haven’t been able to leave their neighborhoods since Isaias moved through Tuesday.

“We always say test your equipment when you don’t need it because when you do need it, it’s an emergency. Now we’re getting a lot of calls this afternoon. It won’t start, what do I do?” questioned Melissa Brett, co-owner of Welden Hardware. Monday was a busy day at the Simsbury hardware store with lots of people running last-minute...

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced the reopening of eight inland swim areas and recreation areas closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re pleased to be providing a reopening of swimming at many of our inland state parks beginning this weekend,” said Katie Dykes, commissioner of DEEP. The inland state parks reopening this weekend for swimming...

DEEP is reopening eight inland swimming areas ahead of the hot weekend.

We’re hearing from the man who put his own life in danger to save his dogs when a bear attacked.

A man who was walking three dogs on a trail in Simsbury was attacked by a black bear Sunday morning. The incident happened at approximately 7:30 a.m. in the McLean Game Refuge off Firetown Road, police said. Police said the attack happened about 20 minutes into the Eddy Loop Trail. The man was walking three dogs on the trail when…

A man who was walking three dogs on a trail in Simsbury was attacked by a black bear Sunday morning.

Taylor explored the sculptures all around Simsbury.

A 98-year-old Simsbury man who was reported missing has returned home and the Silver Alert has been canceled.

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.