The Wilton Bulletin

01/24/2025

One legislator said Connecticut should at least consider switching to a four-day school week. Tell us what you think in the comments.

01/24/2025

Party City, Rite Aid and GameStop are some of the major retailers who shuttered their Connecticut locations.

Several major retailers have closed their Connecticut locations within the last year, including Party City, Rite Aid and Stop & Shop.

01/24/2025

The Food and Drug Administration labeled it as a "Class II" recall, the second-highest risk classification.

First Aid Beauty recalled 2,756 14-ounce jars of its Ultra Repair Cream, colloidal oatmeal 0.5%, with a coconut vanilla scent sold nationwide.

01/23/2025

Athletic, one of the leading brewers of non-alcoholic beer, is donating money to relief efforts for wildfires ravaging southern California.

01/23/2025

The bill would require the president to publish a written explanation of the reasons for granting each executive clemency, and victims to be notified.

The U.S. senator from Connecticut said presidents' "pardon and clemency power has operated in the shadows," and the time for reform had come.

01/23/2025

“Cannabis can cause up to an 8 point IQ loss when teens are using it several times a week," said Margaret Watt, prevention director at Positive Directions.

Westport-based Positive Directions earned grant funding that will seek to reduce youth and young adult cannabis use in Norwalk, New Canaan, Wilton and Weston.

01/23/2025

Connecticut is grappling with another deadly year on the roads. Lowering the BAC threshold could be an answer.

As CT grapples with another deadly year on the roads — at least 329 deaths in traffic crashes in 2024 — the General Assembly may bring BAC down to .05.

01/22/2025

One of the unclaimed top prizes will expire in early February and others will expire during summer 2025.

The Connecticut Lottery tracks unclaimed top prize tickets, and players have 180 days to claim winnings. Here's the current unclaimed prizes of $10,000 and over

01/22/2025

Police said similar incidents occurred in Fairfield and Darien.

Westport police said Nicholas Trichilo, 20, of Wilton shot two vehicles with paintballs on Post Road East in December.

01/22/2025

Adrian Peeler, 48, was not scheduled to be released from McDowell Correctional Institute in West Virginia, where he was serving time for drug charges, until 2033.

Adrian Peeler, whose drug sentence was commuted by President Biden before he left office, killed a Bridgeport woman and her 8-year-old son in 1999.

01/22/2025

With heat restored in the building, the Wilton Library reopened to the public on Wednesday morning, library officials said.

With heat restored in the building, the Wilton Library reopened to the public on Wednesday morning after repairs were completed to its systems.

01/22/2025

To afford buying a home in Connecticut, this is how much homeowners need to make.

A new study conducted by real estate website Realtor.com shows how much money homeowners need to make to afford buying a home in each U.S. state.

01/22/2025

Trump did not address energy and climate issues in 2017, a key difference this time.

Hearst Newspapers conducted an AI-driven analysis to compare Donald Trump's 2025 speech to the one he delivered in 2017, and to Obama's and Biden's.

01/22/2025

Samantha Greene Woodruff, a Connecticut resident, will speak about her novel "The Trade Off" at an "Author Talk" program in Wilton.

Samantha Greene Woodruff, a Connecticut resident, will speak about her latest novel "The Trade Off" at an "Author Talk" program at the Wilton Library.

01/21/2025

The player had a one-in-a-million chance of winning, and there are a handful of unclaimed Connecticut Lottery tickets worth over $11 million.

A Milford resident claimed a $500,000 prize from a winning $4,000,000 Fortune scratch game ticket

01/21/2025

A Ridgefield man was driving back from an Ohio prison on Tuesday after he was among about a dozen Connecticut residents who received a pardon for the Jan. 6 riot.

Patrick McCaughey, of Ridgefield, was released from prison after he was among the Connecticut residents to receive a Trump pardon for Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

01/21/2025

“As soon as there’s an update, we’ll post it on our website," said Nuchada Julavits of the Wilton Library's closure.

With no heat in the building, the Wilton Library is closed until further notice while repairs are made to the building systems.

01/21/2025

"My life has been built in the United States, " said Angelica Idrovo, who came to the U.S. in 2008 from Ecuador.

Trump's promise to deport undocumented immigrants has rattled many in cities from Danbury to Bridgeport to New Haven