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Written by Kim Healy   Local control is a time-tested and cherished tradition of our beloved state. During the last campaign season, the retention of local control was the most commonly articulated concern of local area residents. With the election long behind us, we now find ourselves deep in the Hartford legislative session, considering multiple bills aiming to take control away from our towns. Given our town's clearly expressed stance on this issue, I am concerned about the lack of media coverage and effort to inform residents about the bills currently under debate. Hearings are pr...

If Gov. Lamont and Democrats in favor of legalizing marijuana can agree on the details,...

In 1983, adoption forms changed, eliminating birth parents' rights to privacy.  Cassano's bill gives all adult adoptees born prior to that access to their birth parents' identities. "I fall in this weird little donut hole of people who can only get it if their birth parents are dead but you can't really prove that they're dead because you don't know who they are,” Flaherty explained.  “The fact that there’s another document out there that actually has the accurate information in terms of who gave birth to me and that it’s locked in a vault and that I can’t have it unlike everyone ...

[Note: This article has been updated to say the state is discussing prioritizing vaccinations for 65- to 74-year-olds next.] New Canaan is seeing new positive cases of COVID-19 virus trend down week-by-week, Health Director Jenn Eielson said Thursday, and the state recently doubled the number of vaccinations made available to the town. The town saw a “sustained high” in cases starting in early November, and that’s been changing recently, “so this is good progress,” Eielson told members of the Health & Human Services Commission during their regular meeting, held via videoconference. ...

Letter: Retiring Wilton Bulletin editor thanks staff, community Jan. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail To the Editors: Having resigned as editor of The Bulletin at the end of 2020, I wanted to take this opportunity to offer thanks. Thanks to the Wilton community for welcoming me 11 years ago and continuing to embrace The Bulletin as its paper of record. This month, The Bulletin is marking its 84th year serving Wilton. The past two years were a challenge as we were acquired by Hearst and acclimated to some changes, but Assistant Editor Patricia Gay, Sports Editor Tim Murphy and I always strove to ...