FARMINGTON -- (June 23) Plans to ease traffic at the intersection of routes 4 and 177 call for replacing a steel bridge over the Farmington River. The two-lane bridge, built in 1939, would be replaced by a five-lane bridge.

CROMWELL -- (June 23) The Middlesex Career Fair offered free résumé critiques by experts on Tuesday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The fair also offered information on jobs, free parking, federal and state veterans' benefits information booths and get information about starting businesses. For more information click here.

HARTFORD -- (June 23) The Men & Women of Color Initiative collected food and money on Saturday for its community feeding project. On Tuesday, it offered a drop-off station at Northend Church from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. where items such as canned goods, rice, boxed cereal and more could be donated.

MIDDLETOWN -- (June 23) A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday near 47 Ferry St. in honor of the development of 15 units of affordable housing in the city's North End.

WINDSOR LOCKS -- (June 23) Renovations to the second floor of the Town Hall are under way and include a new elevator, air conditioning, sprinklers and lighting and other electrical work.

NEW BRITAIN -- (June 23) The city has opened the swimming pools at A.W. Stanley Park and Willow Brook Park for the summer. The daily cost to use the pools, which are open seven days a week, is $3 for adults and $2 for children younger than 17 years old, and there is no charge for children younger than 5 years old. However, season passes are also available at City Hall's Parks and Recreation Office for $15 for an individual and $25 for a family.

ENFIELD -- (June 22) Gov. Jodi Rell announced the rehabilitation project scheduled for the Interstate 91 bridge at exit 49 on Monday. The project will be completed through the use of federal stimulus funds.

SEYMOUR -- (April 20) It's been more than a decade since the town first heard about state plans to build a fish bypass channel on the Tingue Dam to revive dying fisheries on the Naugatuck River. After years of inactivity, the project is in line to receive about $3 million in federal stimulus funds and another $2.2 million from the state.

SEYMOUR -- (April 6) A traveling memorial of 5,000 U.S. flags honoring those Americans who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq will be on display at Seymour Congregational Church through April 19.

WOODBURY -- (Jan. 19) Rob Zombie, founder of the rock band White Zombie, has purchased a home in Woodbury. The house and 19 acres are located on Sycamore Road, just beyond the historic Hollow District and Main Street South.

ORANGE -- (Jan. 15) United Illuminating Co. has cemented its long-term relationship with the town by agreeing to lease a 19-acre parcel to build a 140,000-square-foot corporate office building next to the land it bought on Marsh Hill Road last month.

WATERTOWN -- (Dec. 9) The Watertown Police Association hosted a lunch for more than 500 senior citizens at noon at the Crestbrook Inn.

DERBY -- (Oct. 27) The city has reached out to Yale University's School of Architecture to see if faculty or students would like to help with design work for the inside of the historic Sterling Opera House. The building, which was built in 1889 and is on the National Register of Historic Places, has been vacant for years. Work to repair the structure has been ongoing. The city is using grant money to fix the side and rear exterior walls and replace windows and doors.

SHELTON -- (Oct. 8) The Spooner House got some landscaping work done Oct. 8 thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven for this project. A group of landscape design students from Shelton High School, under the direction of Mary Ann Tyma, did the front landscaping.

NEW LONDON -- (June 22) The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $300,000 as part of a Homeland Security Appropriations bill to replace the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Eagle Pier.

NORTH STONINGTON -- (June 22) Mark Wahlberg, Lawrence Taylor, Joe Theismann, Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame inductee Jim Rice and other A-list celebrities are scheduled to take part in FOX Sports Network's "Big Shots Titans at the Tee" long-drive championships at the Lake of Isles at Foxwoods on Tuesday.

MYSTIC -- (June 16) For $3, venture into a 1,200-square-foot aviary full of free-flying cockatiels, parakeets and rosellas native to Australia at Mystic Aquarium between now and Sept. 13.

GROTON -- (June 10) Plans for major upgrades to Thames Street are now estimated at $10.7 million, and a question about the issue will be placed on the November ballot.

NEW HAVEN -- (June 8) An alderman's proposal to co-name Whalley Avenue The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue has changed into an effort to rename Dixwell Avenue in honor of the slain civil rights leader.

WATERFORD -- (June 4) Pet safety advocate Christina Selter, Waterford Police Chief Bud Pendleton and other first responders held an event Tuesday to demonstrate the do's and don'ts of pet safety during the summer travel season. The event was held in honor of National Safety Month.

NORWICH -- (June 22) The city is planning rehabilitate the Pleasant Street Bridge over the Yantic River using funds from the Federal Local Bridge Program.

MONTVILLE -- (May 12) The Town Council is considering whether it should form a permanent committee to build a new public safety building.

NORWICH -- (March 4) The use of the da Vinci robotic surgical system is gaining steam at Backus Hospital, expanding beyond prostate cancer surgeries to include hysterectomies and thoracic procedures.

PRESTON -- (Feb. 24) Residents in Preston were voting on the future of the former Norwich Hospital site Wednesday. The polls opened for a referendum on wehther to buy the former state mental hospital property or allow the state to regain control of the 419-acre site. The hospital opened in 1905, closed in 1996, and has been vacant since.

NORWICH -- (Feb. 12) A Valentine Flowers fundraiser is slated to be held Friday and Saturday at the East Great Plain Firehouse.