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MILFORD >> Waters is back on and roads have reopened after a 12-inch water main break left residential and commercial customers without water Sunday evening.The main break occurred at 5:45 p.

SHERMAN >> It's the largest bird sanctuary in the state, and roughly half of the 835 acres actually spill over into New York.Deer Pond Farm is the newest of the

NEW HAVEN >> Yale University is preparing some military veterans for the transition to college life by hosting what it is calling an academic boot camp.The camp, which began on May 28 and runs through June 10, is run by the Warrior-Scholar Project and it involves immersing recent military veterans in academic preparation courses.

Once again readers continue to reinforce that people who read are not only tuned-in to what is happening but are also discerning about what they read.I got an earful about my last column, "Slammed? Journalists deserve better" that appeared last Sunday.

NEW HAVEN >> After more than three decades on the job, Probate Judge Jack Keyes said what still resonates with him is the advice he got from his father.Keyes took up the position in 1985, succeeding Judge Thomas F. Keyes Jr., who served from 1974-1985."You will see mothers and fathers who do horrible things to their kids.

NEW HAVEN >> The city's first big festival of summer, the New Haven Food Truck Festival spread across what has become food truck central at Long Wharf Saturday, with the Canal Dock / New Haven Dragon Boat Regatta on nearby Long Wharf Pier for spice.

NEW HAVEN >> "Truck, Mommy, truck," are the sweetest words Andrea Cox has ever heard.Those were the first words her son Lindburg Pender III ever said - a feat multiple doctors and specialists said the boy would never accomplish. And sure enough, Cox said, within a couple of minutes of his words, a tractor trailer had driven by the house.

The meaningful times for Joseph Gerhard - what he calls "moments of clarity" - can occur when he's walking by himself in early morning in the woods of East Rock Park near his home or while working as a nurse in the operating room at Yale New Haven Hospital, assisting in a patient's heart surgery.I first heard about Gerhard in an email from his friend Sherry Coyle, who called him "a great Renaissance man" because he is a painter, a musician, a writer and a photographer as well as an operating room nurse.

NEW HAVEN >> The great majority of men will endure an enlarged prostate later in life, with 80 percent of men over 80 facing the prospect of difficulty urinating and possibly diminished sexual function, says Dr. Raj Ayyagari, an interventional radiologist at

NEW HAVEN >> Amidst all the changes in the state higher education system in Greater New Haven in the last 50 years, Lee Panagoulias has been a constant.Panagoulias was the first professor hired at Greater New Haven State Technical College 47 years ago, before it merged with South Central Community College to form