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As Americans mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence today, it’s worth remembering that this July 4 commemorates only one moment in a much longer story.

As we brace for a winter storm forecast to be a blizzard, news alerts pulse and social media posts circulate snowfall projections in increasingly urgent tones.

As Woodbridge awaits official election results from a recanvass of its November 4, 2025, municipal election — after it was announced in the Center Gym that the tallies for the two candidates for First Selectman were just eight votes apart — it's worth loo…

Last week we discovered the location of Frank and Martha Fowler's home on Amity Road in Woodbridge when John Rumbold, a member of a family that subsequently resided there, shared his family memories of the home he knew as Elmcroft.

In the midst of my “summer hiatus” from writing essays for TownHistory.org, some stories are just too good to wait.

Over Memorial Day weekend in 2024, I quietly set out on a project to write about local history, intending to publish every Sunday on TownHistory.org — one essay each week.

Looking back at your family tree through your mother’s line — from daughter to mother to grandmother and beyond — is known as tracing your matrilineal line of descent.

A few weeks ago, as I paged through a folder of town history original source materials gathered over the years, I came across a copy of our local League of Women Voters's 1973 booklet, This is Woodbridge.

The ruins of the old cement kiln off the Litchfield Turnpike have long been an object of quiet curiosity — a relic tucked away in the woods, its story half-remembered or forgotten altogether.

What does it mean to be free?

In December 1923, American headlines were filled with scandal and upheaval.

During the Spring of 1945 — 80 years ago — as the Allies closed in on victory, U.S. military leadership released an edition of Army Talk, Orientation Fact Sheet 64, with the simple title, “Fascism!”

Each year, the arrival of spring stirs something elemental.

This week, as news headlines announced the dissolution of the U.S.

At times, distant minds seem to converge upon the same star-lit idea, illuminating a shared path of thinking.