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WATERBURY Police are investigating a suspected road rage incident Sunday that began on Route 8 and continued in Waterbury.
Police say two drivers were involved in some sort of dispute on the southbound side of the highway at about 2:30 p.m.
One of the drivers exited the highway near Thomaston Avenue and was followed by the driver of a gray Honda SUV. The driver in that SUV, a white man with short hair and a thin build who was wearing a light colored short and jeans, continued to argue with the other driver, then pulled a handgun, according to police.
No shots were fired and the pistol-wielding driver climbed back into his SUV, then fled before police arrived. The SUV was last seen driving toward West Main Street and police say the registration was traced back to an owner in Shelton.
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Peter Del Tredici, left, an ecologist and botanist, talks with Cornwall farmer Bill Hurlburt during Saturday s program at the Cornwall Library titled Farming in the Northwest Corner: Education, Economics and Ecology. Ruth Epstein Republican-American
FALLS VILLAGE Visitors to the agricultural education wing of Housatonic Valley Regional High School come away very impressed with what they see: a greenhouse filled with varieties of plants…
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A memorial service outside City Hall in Waterbury on Monday honored firefighters and police officers who died in the line of duty, including firefighters Heriberto ‘Eddie’ Rivera and Howard Hughes. Rivera and Hughes died on May 10, 1990, when the brakes on their fire engine failed and they slammed into a tree on West Main Street. The names of members of the city’s police and fire departments who have died since then were read aloud.
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The Gunn Historical Museum and the Washington Garden Club will sponsor a virtual program, “Ellen Shipman and the American Garden,” presented by art historian Judith B. Tankard on Monday at 6:30 p.m.
Judith B. Tankard
The lecture will focus on Shipman’s unique style that saw more than 600 lush, formal gardens commissioned between 1910-1950 by, among others, the Fords, Edisons and duPonts. Shipman also ran her own New York firm, which employed only women.
Tankard is an art historian specializing in landscape and garden history, the author of a dozen books – including “Ellen Shipman and the American Garden,” which received the J.B. Jackson Book Prize in 2019 – and the recipient of a gold medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 2000.