Button Island News Today

CRANBERRY ISLES — There are 27 houses on Sutton Island, all of which are only occupied seasonally. But they still need reliable electric power.

At Suffolk County, three white-rumped sandpipers at Winthrop Beach, an alder flycatcher at the Arnold Arboretum, and a mourning warbler at the Winthrop section of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway.

U.S. Coast Guard calls off search for man who disappeared in Solano County bay near Dutton Island.

/PRNewswire/ -- Showcase Cinemas, a world leader in the motion picture exhibition industry, and the Hingham Lions Club today announced that the Hingham...

Connecticut State Police are investigating after a man appears to have drowned in Candlewood Lake Monday evening. Officials were called to a small island...

Adao Nogueira of Danbury was pronounced dead after he was pulled from Candlewood Lake on Monday evening near Button Island.

State police are reporting that a man who was pulled from a Fairfield County lake in cardiac arrest has died from drowning.The victim, Adao Nogueira, age 53, of Danbury, was rescued from Button Island in New Fairfield around 5 p.m., Monday…

Environmental regulations have forced the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, to delay its Fourth of July fireworks display for months.

Both were forced to delay the fireworks until after the birds' nesting season ends.

The annual Hingham fireworks show to celebrate the Fourth of July will now take place in September.