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Sgt. 1st Class David Flint surprised his daughter, a kindergartener at a school in Vernon, after being deployed for the past eight months.

Sgt. 1st Class David Flint surprised his daughter, a kindergartener at a school in Vernon, after being deployed for the past eight months.

Engineers, local and state officials gathered Thursday at the Ryefield Condominiums in Vernon for a live drilling and core sampling to test for crumbling concrete foundations. The goal of the testing is to identify at-risk foundations with pyrrhotite, and to understand the true scope of the crumbling foundations crisis. Researchers tested two condos and both came back negative. “The main...

UConn engineers were in Vernon on Thursday to demonstrate how they test homes for concrete that may contain the mineral that has led to many crumbling foundations in the state.

Some voters in Vernon received absentee ballots for the wrong voting district due to what town officials called a flaw in the Secretary of the State’s Centralized Voter Registration System and what state officials described as a clerical error on the town’s part. According to a release from the Vernon Mayor’s Office, the town clerk received reports from voters...

The elementary schools in Vernon are returning to full in-person learning, The superintended explains what that will look like

You must follow a certain set of steps to ensure that your absentee ballot will be counted.

Interstate 84 east in Vernon has fully reopened after a multi-vehicle crash on Saturday. State Dept. of Transportation officials said the two-vehicle crash closed the right and center lanes of the highway between exits 67 and 68. It has since fully reopened. It’s unclear if anyone was injured in the crash.

A toddler is seriously injured after falling off of a cliff in Vernon on Saturday. Police, firefighters and EMS responded to the Rails to Trails near Washington Street and Brookview Drive shortly before 12 p.m after getting a report of a child who fell off of a cliff. Authorities said the toddler-aged child sustained serious injuries in the fall and…

Schools are reopening and schools are taking precautions on how mealtime will operate. Elizabeth Fisher, director of food and nutrition services at Vernon Public Schools, explains how mealtimes will work.

The Rockville Library is making some significant changes as it prepares to reopen for in-person visitors.

Class is back in session for more kids across the state today and some students, staff and faculty were welcomed back by Governor Ned Lamont. Today is the first day of school for more than two dozen school districts in Connecticut. In Wethersfield, they are doing a hybrid approach with a mix of in-person learning and online learning. Students with…

Students are beginning to return to school, including in Wethersfield.

Students in schools in Glastonbury and Wethersfield are heading back to school today for the first time since the pandemic started.

: The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities announced on Monday its new partnership with Dalio Education to help decrease the digital divide in the state.

A man has serious, life-threatening injuries after crashing down an embankment in Vernon on Saturday morning, according to police. Officers said the crash happened on Lake Street near the Bolton town line just before 8 a.m. Authorities said a man was driving a car when he crashed and went down an embankment near the reservoir. The man was the only…

The Manchester firefighter accused of a series of sexual assaults in Manchester and Vernon in the 2000s appeared before a judge on Friday. Angelo Alleano, Jr. was arrested on Wednesday in connection with four burglaries and sexual assaults that occurred between 2001 and 2008. Alleano appeared via video from the Hartford courthouse holding cell before a Hartford judge. Citing the…

 “I think without forensic genealogy everyone would agree that the case probably would have went unsolved,” said Kristin Sasinouski, deputy director of Forensic Biology & DNA at the Division of Scientific Services. For nearly two decades, forensic scientists at the state’s crime lab have been trying to help police identify the person responsible for a series of rapes that...

A Manchester firefighter remains behind bars accused in a series of rapes