Old Lyme

A local high school football game on Thursday night ended with a heartwarming moment for one senior.

The Valley Regional/Old Lyme football game against Coventry High School on Thursday night ended with a heartwarming moment for one senior. Peter Kuhn, a senior with Down syndrome, scored a touchdown in front of a roaring crowd and excited teammates. “Given that Petey’s a senior this year, we wanted to make sure he had an opportunity to get out...

A fugitive from justice wanted on several child rape charges has been taken into custody in Old Lyme. Connecticut State Police said Kody Tyler Stewart, 30, of Mississippi, was located and arrested on Tuesday. Old Lyme police, Connecticut State Police, U.S. Marshals and the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry/Criminal Warrants Division received information about Stewart possibly being in Connecticut. He...

Thursday in Old Lyme, state and federal leaders gathered for a groundbreaking of Amtrak’s new $1.3 billion Connecticut River Bridge replacement project. “It needs to be painted it looks like, but all the joints, they’re rotting,” said Old Lyme’ Marshall Brooks. After 116 years of service, Amtrak’s Connecticut River Bridge is finally up for replacement. “It was a masterpiece...

State and federal leaders gathered in Old Lyme for a groundbreaking of the new Connecticut River Train bridge project on Thursday.

If you take a drive through the state of Connecticut, chances are you’ll pass through at least one town with a connection to an Olympian who competed in Paris. More than 40 athletes in the 2024 Summer Olympics either grew up, trained or went to school in the Constitution State. A total of 20 medals were awarded to these impressive…

A 19-year-old Westbrook man has serious injuries after crashing into a car and an embankment in Old Lyme early Friday morning, according to state police. State police said a driver in a Chevrolet Impala was heading north on Route 1 around 12:47 a.m., lost control, drove into a front yard, hit an unoccupied Honda HR-V LX and an embankment, then…

“The fireworks were awesome. It was one of those nights where you thought it was the finale but there was even more,” said Old Lyme’s Dominique DiVenuto. Thursday night, a firework display showered Old Lyme’s coast with light in celebration of the Fourth of July. “Yeah, it was incredible, it was a lengthy show. We saw it for about...

Some Old Lyme residents are looking for a compromise as to how late some public beaches can stay open on the Fourth of July in order to accommodate fireworks.

Barstool Sports found Dave Portnoy has reviewed roughly 40 pizza places throughout Connecticut, and on Wednesday he made a surprise visit to Sapore Pizzeria and Bar. “It was just business as usual, just a regular Wednesday,” Sapore manager Sarah Saunders said. It was just a regular Wednesday, for a basic cheese pizza order at Old Lyme’s Sapore Pizzeria and Bar….

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy visited a number of Connecticut pizza places this week, giving his famous pizza reviews. One of those stops included a restaurant in Old Lyme that’s experienced its share of hardship in recent years.

Two people were charged after they caused concern while playing the “assassins” game in Old Lyme. The game involves participants driving around town with water guns and going after a “target” in residential neighborhoods.

Two people were charged Tuesday after they caused concern while playing the “assassins” game in Old Lyme. State police responded to the area of Lyme Street around 6:45 a.m. after receiving reports of two people wearing camouflage and moving through the bushes near the Lyme/Old Lyme Center School, according to authorities. Arriving troopers found the two people near the...

State police are investigating a break-in at a storage facility in Old Lyme. State troopers responded to CubeSmart at 232 Shore Road at 12:42 p.m. Sunday to investigate a theft from a storage unit and found a lock latch had been pried from a door and eight units were unsecured, state police said. Troopers left a message with the manager…

Connecticut State Police sergeants are being recognized for their quick-thinking, bravery and compassion after they rescued a woman from the edge of the Baldwin Bridge earlier this week. The Baldwin Bridge is about 100 feet above the Connecticut River, between Old Lyme and Old Saybrook. According to state police, the distressed woman had climbed from the pedestrian sidewalk over the…

A 70-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s who had been reported missing from Old Lyme on Monday morning has been found. The woman left her home on Rowland Road in Old Lyme on foot between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Monday, according to Old Saybrook Fire Department. She was found at approximately 10:45 a.m. It’s unclear where she was found....

A school bus driver in Old Lyme is accused of hitting a taxi multiple times on Friday while there were multiple students and a coach on the bus. Police were called to Lyme-Old Lyme High School around 12:45 p.m. after getting a report of a crash with no injuries involving an M&J school bus and a Curtin transportation taxi....

A truck driver has died after a rollover crash on Interstate 95 south in Old Lyme on Friday. Troopers said 63-year-old Michael Allen Finkeldey, of Westbrook, was on the highway just south of exit 71 around 1:30 p.m. when he hit the truck in front of him. According to state police, Finkeldey’s truck then crossed into the right shoulder, hit…

A crash closed I-95 South in Old Lyme Friday, but it has since reopened. A dump truck was involved in the crash, according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The southbound side of I-95 was closed between Exits 72 and 70. There are injuries reported, but the extent of those injuries are unknown, according to state police.

A 78-year-old Salem man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Old Lyme on Tuesday evening. State police said Edward Lazarin was heading west on Route 156, approaching the Mile Creek Road intersection just after 4 p.m., when he went off the road and his Harley-Davidson rolled over and landed on the front lawn of a church. Lazarin was thrown…