Must be the global warming.
[August 17, 2010] A brown pelican was spotted with a white-tailed kite off of Point Stratford, a very rare double sighting as neither bird is indigenous to Connecticut …
Source: Connecticut Post

Don’t believe the “Wright” hype — the evidence is that Bridgeport’s Gustave Whitehead was first to achieve motorized flight.
[August 14, 2010] A local high school teacher celebrated the 109th anniversary of Gustave Whitehead’s disputed first motorized flight with a flight of his own …
Source: Connecticut Post

Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
[August 14, 2010] A woman attempted to deposit a small bag of cocaine along with her checks at a Rockville Bank in South Windsor …
Source: NBC 30

As someone who has these pests in their very own backyard, Stratford has my condolences.
[August 13, 2010] Residents in Stratford have once again reported seeing white squirrels–a unique variation of the Eastern gray squirrel, that have also been spotted in Shelton and other towns …
Source: Connecticut Post

Given the Nazis “dislike” of things Hebrew, it’s kind of remarkable that they weren’t destroyed.
[August 12, 2010] Books that belonged to a Jewish family and had been seized by the Nazis in 1939 have now been returned to a Greenwich woman 71 years later …
Source: Connecticut Post

This one’s for the birds (and their lovers)!
[August 10, 2010] A white-tailed kite, a hawk-like raptor usually only found in the Southwestern U.S., has been seen in the Lordship section of Stratford, the first such documented sighting in state history …
Source: Connecticut Post

Sad that this poor woman died, but her own husband couldn’t find her in their bedroom? Really?
[August 4, 2010] A Stratford woman who was reported missing by her husband was eventually discovered in her own bedroom under a large pile of laundry, having apparently died of a heart attack …
Source: Connecticut Post

About 20 years ago, we caught one of these in the Sound off of Milford, which I guess was more unusual than we thought at the time.
[Aug. 2, 2010] A pair of Milford men caught a four-foot sand tiger shark while fishing in Long Island Sound …
Source: NBC 30

No chance alcohol was involved, right?
[Aug. 2, 2010] A Norwich man took a floor sweeper from a garage at Mohegan Sun Casino and went on a joyride, which ended in a collision with a pickup truck …
Source: The Day of New London

We’ve written about the cemetery and the Green Lady.
[July 28, 2010] The headstone belonging to Elizabeth Palmiter, who many believe is the identity of a ghost known as the Green Lady, was stolen from Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Burlington …
Source: Waterbury Republican-American