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ArticleWhy Conn. towns are remov­ing ‘char­ac­ter’ from zon­ing reg­u­la­tions

Over the last five years, many towns and cit­ies across Con­necti­cut have been rewrit­ing offi­cial zon­ing reg­u­la­tions to remove a single word: “char­ac­ter.” The change comes thanks to a 2021 law that fol­lowed sev­eral appeals of project...

ArticleThoma­s­ton man gets 10-year prison term

WATERBURY — A Thoma­s­ton man who pos­ted videos of his sexual assaults of a minor to a por­no­graphy web­site will be sen­tenced to 10 years in prison after plead­ing guilty July 7 to one count each of first-degree sexual assault and pos­ses­sion of...

ArticleMassive wood­b­lock prints are com­ing to fest­ival

Big Ink, a trav­el­ing edu­ca­tional pro­gram ded­ic­ated to large-scale relief and wood­b­lock print­mak­ing, will visit Five Points Arts in Tor­ring­ton this week­end as part of the cen­ter’s 2026 Print Fest­ival Week­end. The event fea­tures 16...

ArticleLook­ing for a home with his­tory? These houses up for sale date back to before 1776