Yes, you can learn how to make a dish, but also about traditions of different cultures, appreciating food photography and reading about recipes from different regions of the U.S.

KENT – The Kent Memorial Library will offer a two-session writing workshop, Write The First Draft, to the KML community, presented by Sergio Troncoso, Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, 7-9 p.m.

NEW MILFORD — Twin Star Herbal Education, Connecticut’s School for Herbal and Energetic studies, has partnered with The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm in New Milford to offer herbalism classes and events on the property, according to an email from the school.

NORTHFIELD — The first State Grange in Connecticut was organized at a meeting held at the Old Taylor Opera House in Danbury in 1875. On the state website, it is noted there are over 40 community grange chapters but many are struggling and some have been forced to close. When the Beacon Grang…

The performance series will end when Connecticut’s executive orders governing activities during the coronavirus pandemic end, venue owner Ben Paletsky said.

Northwestern CT race is focus of sex-assault allegation against a fourth-term incumbent member of the state House of Representatives.

At the pandemic grinds on, domestic violence shelters are grappling with budgets gaps and growing needs

The scholars, with help from society director Mark McEachern, are conducting the grant-funded program by interviewing “new” immigrants, and telling their stories on videos.

NEW MILFORD — In 2002, Mike Sumple built a lovely, 3,450-square-foot home with nine rooms and three and a half baths in New Milford. The house is a contemporary post and beam cedar home that sits back 700 feet from Second Hill Road on four acres of wooded land.

The first time you meet Chris Prosperi, as I did a few weeks ago, it’s like running into an old friend.

“In AL amyloidosis, misfolded amyloid proteins can build up in many organs throughout the body, including the heart and kidneys, causing significant damage,” an official said.

“VA Connecticut is in turmoil,” wrote the whistleblower in an anonymous complaint filed in August and obtained by C-HIT.

In April, Rhonda Eigabroadt, 53, showed up at the ER at MidState Medical Center in Meriden, struggling to breathe.

Dr. Thomas Balcezak, executive VP and chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Hospital, said officials are “appropriately concerned” about the increase in cases in Connecticut.

The announcement came following a directive from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the federal Health and Human Services agency that oversees nursing homes.

Attorney who founded Pride fest wins a national award for championing diversity on the municipal level.

If Buddy is captured, he will retire to the Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary in Florida.

WINSTED — A longtime antique shop on Main Street has reopened, offering a wide array of treasures.

The test, used to test players in the NBA’s bubble, is currently only available at the Yale Pathology Labs. It will soon be available in three other states, officials said.

The tentative agreement between the grocery giant and United Food and Commercial Workers Union calls for premium pay in the form of lump sum payments.

Mention gardening or gardening books or experts on the topic and one name comes to mind immediately: Page Dickey. The doyenne of this subject has written several books on the subject, in addition to countless articles, and also has a blog. Now she has written a memoir “Uprooted: A Gardener R…

With a high fire danger across the state on Tuesday, officials reminded residents about the importance of safe burning.

Economic Development Director Rista Malanca said Torrington and NWCOG received a grant from the state Department of Transportation to conduct the corridor study.

WASHINGTON — The Institute for American Indian Studies is offering three-hour private educational programs in its new Educational Exploration program, intended to spark a child’s curiosity with a learning experience outside the classroom. The lessons can be tailored for students from kinderg…

Tyler Green FX Studio is making and marketing a Kidz Box, a kit for children to make a custom horror mask that closely resembles Green’s own design.

Doctors hope for a milder flu season because of mask wearing and other COVID-19 precautions, but advise a vaccination by October.

Sunday Hayes said via email that she visited two urgent care centers Saturday before finally getting an appointment for a COVID test at a third site.

On Thursday, the state identified 220 new infections out of just under 14,000 tests performed, a positivity rate of just under 1.6 percent.

NEW HARTFORD — Cheryl Campagne, formerly known professionally as Cheryl Maust, is the owner of Simply Guitar Studio and a member of ASCAP, SGA and the Academy of American Poets. She recently talked about an exciting new breakthrough in sound therapy for horses.

BARKHAMSTED — Landing a near 30-pound Northern Pike will get you noticed; it might even get you an invited into the “old boys club”.

LITCHFIELD — The Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy Board of Directors announces the appointment of Gavin R. Berger to serve as the organization’s executive director after a thorough search.

WOODBURY — Gary Sergeant is in his element at his newly opened antiques shop at 289 South Main Street in Woodbury center, with the afternoon sunlight streaming in from a number of windows, which seems to add to the subdued ambiance of the space. He is filled with enthusiasm, feeling a bit li…

TORRINGTON — Pinewoods Health and Racquet Club recently reopened, after the COVID-19 pandemic closure months ago.

UI, Eversource have established programs that allow customers who have fallen behind in paying their bills because of the pandemic a way to catch up.

Keith Sanford pleaded guilty to one count theft of government property on June 2, according to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the district of Connecticut.

Many children have been waiting for judges to decide if they can return home or become available for adoption as court proceedings were suspended for months.

Elderly, chronically ill adults are the most vulnerable to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

State distancing rules have been enforced informally but now the governor wants to clamp down as towns clamored for the right to impose fines.

Bears have reportedly entered 42 Connecticut homes through Sept. 10, state officials said.

Efforts include limiting external support persons during and after childbirth, offering early discharge, and using telehealth in lieu of in-person postnatal follow-up visits.

Asian longhorned ticks are a vector for the viral agent of severe fever with thrombocytopenia — or lowered platelets in the blood — in humans.