Wallingford

Sites handing out COVID-19 test kits in Wallingford and Hamden saw traffic jams all evening Tuesday.

Wallingford’s North Plains Industrial Road is filled with traffic and businesses. And this year, it’s become a prime target for thieves.

Wallingford’s North Plains Industrial Road is filled with traffic and businesses. And this year, it’s become a prime target for thieves. “We get businesses on the street getting hit every single day. We, our own business, has been hit a couple of times now,” said Plaza Service Center manager Nick Clark. Clark said stealing a catalytic converter from a...

Get your tickets today for the shows on December 10 & 11 at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre.

A cause of a house fire in Wallingford on Saturday is under investigation. Dispatchers received multiple calls for a house fire on South Colony Road around 1:30 p.m. When crews arrived, they said they found heavy interior and exterior fire on all three floors of the home with one person jumping from the second floor. Crews said they stretched multiple…

State police are investigating a possible carjacking on the Wilbur Cross Parkway near the Meriden-Wallingford line. Troopers responded to Route 15 South between Exits 67 and 66 around 8 a.m. after a man reported the white cargo van he was driving had been stolen. The victim told police two men approached him in a different vehicle on the parkway and…

The husband and family of a Meriden woman killed in a crash last year, made emotional statements in court Tuesday as the man who was drunk when he caused the crash was sentenced to prison.

Take your family to the show on November 27th at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre.

Tap & Vine in Wallingford feared it would have to shut its doors last Sunday as the restaurant struggled to find enough help to open. Now, it looks like Tap & Vine will be able to remain open after job candidates came forward to fill the openings for a chef and a line cook. Hector Samuel, the owner of Tap...

Three people stole thousands of dollars worth of televisions from BJ’s in Wallingford and assaulted an employee, police said. Police responded to the BJ’s at 1046 North Colony Road in Wallingford on Oct. 18 after someone reported that two males and one female were stealing TVs from the store and loading them into the back of a tan minivan and…

After learning Tap & Vine in Wallingford announced it would close its doors for good due to staffing issues, other restaurants in town put out the call to help cover shifts until the owner can hire the employees he needs.

A Wallingford restaurant owner stressed by the staffing shortage warned customers Sunday would be his last day if he couldn’t hire more people. But so-called competitors are stepping up to help the Tape & Vine.

Tap & Vine in Wallingford is planning to close Sunday if the restaurant cannot find enough help to fill two positions it needs to staff before then. The restaurant posted on Facebook that it has been hit hard by the labor shortage. “The community has been great,” Hector Samuel, the owner of Tap & Vine, said. “Everybody has been doing…

Two people have died after a crash Tuesday in Wallingford. Police said a 2022 Hyundai Tuscon and a 2014 Subaru Forester collided head-on on Route 68, just west of North Farms Road, around 3:37 p.m. Police identified the driver of the Subaru Forester as 83-year-old Prabhudas Patel, of Wallingford, and the driver of the Hyundai Tuscon as Stephanie Napolitano, 46,…

The cheers for COVID-19 long haulers getting out of the hospital are a familiar, happy sight after nearly two years in this pandemic. But Friday at Gaylord Specialty Hospital in Wallingford was different.  Glenn Merritt is just 25 years old. The young man from New Haven, affectionately known as “G,” left the hospital hearing cheers from family. “It’s refreshing. I...

Three local departments are working together to track down a suspect accused in a string of armed robberies in Meriden, Southington and Wallingford over the last two months.

Interstate 91 North is congested for miles in the Wallingford area after a crash involving a tractor-trailer. The delays are between exits 14 and 16, a stretch of more than two-and-half miles, because of a crash between exits 15 and 16, according to CT Travel Smart. The right and center lanes are closed.

The Trail of Terror opened Friday and they’re taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for everyone who comes out.

There are delays on Route 15 South on Monday afternoon. CT Travel Smart says there is a two-vehicle crash on Route 15 South in Meriden, between exits 67 S and Miller Avenue, and the right shoulder is open. The state police Twitter account said the left lane of Route 15 South is closed prior to exit 66, in Wallingford because…

A Wallingford woman was arrested and accused of illegally collecting workers’ compensation while on temporary total disability from her employment as a teacher in Bristol, officials announced Friday. Ann Marie Barros, 44, was arrested on a warrant for first-degree larceny in the first degree by defrauding a public community and one count of fraudulent claim or receipt of benefits.  According…