Cheaper gas draws somewhat chipper buyers Gas prices fall below $2 in New Milford NEW MILFORD -- Two months ago, gas cost as much as $4.51 a gallon at KBRO. On Wednesday, after falling steadily, the price was finally under $2 at this and other locations on Danbury Road/Route 7.
KBRO manager Roseanne Woolfe there was a constant flow of customers in and out of the gas station Wednesday and Thursday. more »
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Jury selection begins next month for Russell Brandon Wallace, a former gymnastics coach described by police as a classic child molester who zeroed in on certain pre-teen students, showering them with attention that eventually turned into perversion.
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A community Thanksgiving dinner will be served in St. John's Episcopal parish hall on Whittlesey Avenue off the New Milford Village Green between 3 and 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving day Thursday.
The feast, which is sponsored by volunteers through the Dustin Easley Memorial Foundation, is open to anyone in the community who wishes to participate.
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STORRS -- Fairfield was still in the game. The Stags had the frigid wind in the second half of their NCAA first-round men's soccer game at UConn's Morrone Stadium.
When they had the ball, though, they often couldn't break across midfield. With only two shots, one on goal, the MAAC-champion Stags were eliminated Friday with a 1-0 loss to the Huskies.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the financial meltdown that has spread around the globe should be seen as an event that can occur "once or twice" in a hundred years.
If Paulson's words were meant to be reassuring, they weren't. Despite his long experience on Wall Street, Paulson is struggling to find the right approach to the crisis.
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Every man is the star of his own drama. Such is the insight gleaned by Tom Stoppard's Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern and by Charlie Kaufman's Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the glum and hypochondriacal theater director who is stage center in "Synecdoche, New York.
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