The 6th annual Scrabble Challenge will be held Thursday October 20th at 5:30pm in the Howland-Hughes Center, 140 Bank Street, Waterbury. New this year is a soup competition between five local ...

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n investigation by The Waterbury Observer into six cold case murders going back to 1988. Despite a total breakdown in communication with victims’ families, and a cold case website that is rife with ...

Picture the unfolding development projects in Waterbury as pieces of a massive jigsaw puzzle that has taken a decade to position across the landscape. There are a dizzying number of projects now at ...

One of Fredrecia Spinola’s sisters was the Connecticut Teacher of the Year. Another, a lawyer, was Corporation Counsel of Ansonia. Yet, all agree, Recia (pronounced Rica) was the most talented and ...

A funky old house on Central Avenue in Waterbury has triggered a philosophical debate about history, community good and real estate values. The proposed demolition of a Victorian era multi-family home ...

(Editor’s note – this is 7th article in a series The Waterbury Observer is publishing about unsolved murders of Waterbury women in the past 34 years, six of whose bodies were hidden in the forest ...

What do you do with tips that might unlock a 14-year-old mystery into one of Waterbury’s most notorious murder cases? The obvious answer was to deliver those tips straight to the Waterbury Police ...

A stunning shot of a double rainbow captured Friday afternoon from Waterbury Hospital by Kris Johnson Markham. Really spectacular. Thank you for sharing Kris.

In the past two months The Waterbury Observer has turned into a public tip jar, but instead of dollars rolling our way, our tips are about murder suspects, missing people, politics, and corrupt cops.

Karen Everett was the first. On October 16, 1988 deer hunters found her body, clad in a light-gray tank top, dumped down an embankment by the Naugatuck River off Valley Road in Harwinton, just off ...

Journalists never know where their next big story will come from; it could be a fire at a gasoline station, a tornado flattening the heart of a community, or a political scandal so repulsive that it ...