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Argentine composer Martin Palmeri’s tribute to his country entitled Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) will be featured in the show along with British composer John Rutter’s The Gift of Life.

The chorale will be accompanied by soloist Wendy Gerbier, the chorale’s orchestra and Joseph J. Jacovino on the piano and organ.

Mark Twain Library in Redding is seeking volunteers for its annual Frog Frolic on April 29, one of the library’s biggest events.

The event, in its 22nd year, is described as a children’s country fair and will feature touch a truck, a children’s book sale, inflatables, entertainment, a silent auction, cake walk and a toddler bubble garden.

Tickets cost 50 cents to play games, make crafts and bounce in the inflatables.

Two residents from Bethel and Redding will be among the 11 firefighters honored at this year’s Connecticut State Firefighters Association Hall of Fame Dinner.

Rees has served the department for 44 years and was previously Bethel’s emergency management director and public works director.

“So you pulled your gun out first?” Assistant State’s Attorney Jason Germain asked while Sanderson was on the witness stand. Sanderson claimed Kingston was behind an shooting earlier in 2014, when shots were fired at Sanderson as he was driving his mother’s Hummer in Bridgeport.

DANBURY - A man accused of pressuring mentally troubled young men into paid sex with wealthy male clients told police he “didn’t know I was causing any harm.” “My crime was trying to help people,” Robert King insisted in an interview with police recounted in an affidavit filed Friday in Superior Court. Two men authorities have identified as King’s main clients, William Trefzger, a previously convicted sex offender from Westport, and Bruce J. Bemer of Glastonbury, were arrested earlier this week.

On Dec. 11, 2016, after Bethel police and medical personnel found the 25-year old female dead , investigators found three empty heroin folds from the victim’s purse, and six empty heroin folds from the victim’s jacket pocket.

According to court documents, Mignani sold depressants, opioids and amphetamines in Bethel, and housed the 25-year-old, drug-dependent woman for months free of charge before she died in December.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly signed two memos in February calling for the hiring of 10,000 new ICE officers, more coordination with municipal law enforcement agencies, and say the the department “no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement.”

The memos undo policies established by President Barack Obama that made undocumented immigrants largely safe from deportation if they weren’t, for example, convicted criminals or recent border crossers.

[...] in his second term as a state senator, the Branford Democrat and disability advocate is said by multiple sources to be strongly leaning toward a run for governor in 2018.

A person close to Kennedy put the chances at “90 percent” that the health care lawyer and son of the late “liberal lion” Edward M. Kennedy jumps into the race, capitalizing on his name recognition and a potential vacuum if fellow Democrat Dannel P.

The recently formed group, calling themselves “Candlewood Voices,” gathered outside the New Fairfield senior center with protest signs asking selectmen to continue to use carp instead of herbicides to treat the invasive Eurasian milfoil in the lake.

After Thursday’s rally, the residents attended the selectmen’s meeting and spoke for about 40 minutes of the public comment period against the herbicide plan.

During the investigation, the victim’s fiancee received several threatening messages on her phone after the victim contacted police, according to a press release from the Danbury Police Department. Belin and Lee are charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, second-degree threatening, sixth-degree larceny and a count of conspiracy to commit for each charge.