Wallingford

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.

A Florida woman was killed in a crash on I-91 in Wallingford on Wednesday morning. Kristie Ann White, 44, of Homestead, Florida, was driving in the center lane of I-91 North near Exit 14 when she veered into the left lane and collided with a pickup truck, according to state police. White’s vehicle then rolled over several times in the…

The Library Wine Bar and Bistro in Wallingford said a couple of their staff members tested positive for COVID-19. The restaurant said they immediately shut their doors, have been in contact with the health department, and hired a professional cleaning crew. The closure will be in effect for two weeks, according to the restaurant. “It has almost been six months…

A person was struck and killed by a train in Wallingford Thursday morning. The southbound CT Rail train struck a person who was trespassing on the tracks around 8:15 a.m. near North Plains Highway, according to the Department of Transportation. There is no other information being released at this time.

Eversource customers have been sounding the alarm all week about a substantial increase in their electricity bills. Those types of complaints are not uncommon and are not new. Anger over the cost of operating gas-fired street lamps caused Wallingford to start their own electric division more than a century ago. “It’s what’s called public power and that’s who we’re...

Anger over the cost of operating gas-fired street lamps caused Wallingford to start their own electric division more than a century ago.

Wallingford Public Schools are still trying to determine the best way to reopen this fall.

A West Haven man and his family are celebrating after the 81-year-old recovered from COVID-19 complications. Marty Ganter developed complications back in March and has been battling against the virus for almost four months. Complications from the virus left the former lead singer of the 50s band The Academics needing both a ventilator and a feeding tube. “His condition was…

One person has died and four other people are injured after a crash in Wallingford on Tuesday night. Officers were called to two-car crash at the intersection of Route 68 and North Main Street Extension around 7:40 p.m. According to police, a man from Madison was driving a Jeep east on Route 68 when he and a Honda CR-V traveling…

Wallingford Public Schools has suspended its summer school program after they were notified a person in the program is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. Superintendent Salvatore Menzo said in a letter to families that the person started experiencing symptoms on Friday but has not been in the program since last Monday. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are suspending in-person summer…

Connecticut State Police have issued a Silver Alert for an 87-year-old man who is missing from Wallingford on Tuesday. State police said Jack Sundberg has been missing since Monday and he was last seen wearing grey sweatpants and a blue sweatshirt with Pompano Beach on it. Sundberg is 5-foot 8-inches tall, 205 pounds with grey hair and blue eyes. Anyone…

A fire has damaged a building belonging to a landscaping company in Wallingford on Monday morning. A passerby reported a structure fire at the building on North Cherry Street Ext. around 6:42 a.m. Four minutes later, fire officials said the first units on scene reported heavy smoke coming from the building with a working structure fire. The inside of the…

As many businesses cope with the stress of COVID-19, one Wallingford woman is opening up her doors for small vendors who planned to participate in fairs and festivals. Lisa McMurry is the owner of Lisa’s Soap & Naked Natural L.L.C. McMurry creates handmade soaps and is a state-licensed cosmetic manufacturer. “I’ve been doing this for a long time and...

A Wallingford shop owner has opened her doors to allow vendors who normally make money at summer fairs and festivals to sell their items in her store.