Wallingford

Laskara Restaurant in Wallingford is benefiting from the Barstool Fund.

Police have arrested a man who is accused of fatally stabbing someone during an argument in a Wallingford parking lot on Saturday night. Officers responded to the parking lot of the Corner Cafe on Church Street around 10:25 p.m. after getting a report of a serious assault. When police arrived, they said they found 32-year-old Ernest Cipolli III, of Wallingford,…

The driver of a vehicle who police said crashed into an ambulance in Wallingford on Saturday fled the scene on foot and an investigation is underway to determine his or her identity. Officers were called to North Plains Industrial Road around 8:20 p.m. after getting a report of a crash involving an evading vehicle. Investigators said a Hunter’s Ambulance...

Two people were hit by a car while they were changing a flat tire in Wallingford on Saturday night and police said the vehicle left the scene after the collision. Officers received several 911 calls about an evading crash involving two pedestrians around 5:10 p.m. According to police, a man and a woman were changing a flat tire in the…

Join Mike Hydeck on a tour of holiday light displays around Connecticut!

Join Mike Hydeck on a tour of holiday light displays around Connecticut.

For the first time in nearly half a century, Wallingford’s powder puff football game will not be held as part of the school’s Thanksgiving week festivities.

For the first time in 48 years, the annual Samaha Bowl Powderpuff football game won’t play the day before Thanksgiving. Like many other traditions this Wallingford staple is postponed because of the coronavirus. “It would not be a senior year if we didn’t have powderpuff,” said Rachel Hill, a Sheehan High School senior. “My mom played in powderpuff, my...

Today parents in Wallingford find themselves on different sides of the fence as the district’s board of education unanimously voted to move the high schools and middle schools to all remote learning beginning Monday and through Jan. 19. Sheehan High School has already been remote since Nov. 3 because of staffing shortages.  It was only supposed to be for two…

The Wallingford Board of Education voted unamimously to move the high schools and middle schools to all remote learning beginning Monday, Nov. 23rd, until Jan. 19. The elementary schools will stay in-person.

5-year-old Wesley, who was born with microtia atresia, has a new 3D ear and new confidence thanks to the help of a doctor all the way across the country.

A man from Bethany has died after he lost control of his motorcycle and was hit by oncoming traffic on Route 15 in Wallingford on Friday night, according to state police. State police said 33-year-old Michael Paul Nacca, of Bethany, was riding his motorcycle southbound on Route 15 near exit 64 around 6:45 p.m. when he lost control and became…

Hundreds of voters lined up in Wallingford to cast their ballots today.

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Masks: they’ve always been part of Halloween tradition but never like this year. While spooky season is in full fright mode around the state, those in the Halloween business have adapted to COVID-19 protocols. At East Haven’s Shore Line Trolley Museum, you’ll find the Haunted Isle. People are taken on a trolley into a secret, secluded wooded location. There,...

Masks: they’ve always been part of Halloween tradition but never like this year. While spooky season is in full fright mode around the state, those in the Halloween business have adapted to COVID-19 protocols.

Interstate 91 has reopened following a car fire that closed all lanes of traffic on the northbound side of the highway, according to the Department of Transportation. The highway was closed between exits 13 and 14, the DOT said. The left lane of traffic was also closed between exits 14 and 13 on the southbound side on I-91, according to…

“I knew it was a question of when not if.  I would have preferred for it not to happen the first week of school,” said Matthew Geary, superintendent of the Manchester school district. Three cases of COVID-19 in the Manchester school district closed one building for a day and required 50 students and staff to quarantine for the next two…

Dag Hammarskjold Middle School in Wallingford will be closed until at least Wednesday after a person in the school community has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the school district. In a letter to parents, school officials said students will have to join classes virtually in the meantime. The Wallingford Public School District and the city’s health department have...

A ceremony was held in Wallingford to remember the thousands of lives lost on 9/11 nineteen years ago.