Expanded online reporting about the town of Cornwall, Connecticut, its government, and civic affairs.
It wasn’t the high wind and not the massive rainfall but a pickup truck with a backhoe in tow that damaged the West Cornwall Covered Bridge on Friday, December 23. The bridge had to be closed. The first prognosis [...Read More]
Below is one resident’s reaction to the official hearing convened last week by the state to consider Nuvance Health’s request to discontinue maternity services at Sharon Hospital, a process requiring state approval. Further background on Nuvance’s petition, the “Certificate [...Read More]
One of Cornwall’s most influential institutions, the Foreign Mission School, traces its ties to Hawaii through a young native named Opukaha’ia. Opukaha’ia (anglicized to Obookiah when he lived in Connecticut) was the school’s founding pupil, and a devoted student. Opened in [...Read More]
“If it’s not one thing it’s another,” Roseanne Roseannadanna famously said on Saturday Night Live, which resonates as we recall some of this past summer’s agricultural challenges. First there was the spongy moth invasion, decimating foliage; and then came [...Read More]
The Cornwall Housing Forum on October 19 gave the 36 people who attended via Zoom a good look at what Cornwall can do about housing and what has been done or is in the works. The main barriers are [...Read More]
If you fracture your hip at 9pm on a Friday and are brought to Sharon Hospital, expect to wait until Monday for surgery. That was the bleak hypothetical given by Dr. David Kurish at a recent community roundtable in [...Read More]
It seems as if suddenly there is change in the air around Cornwall Bridge, and I’m not just referring to the leaves or the temperature, or even the rain at long last. A quick drive-by on Route 7 these [...Read More]
He trod towards me With audacious comfort in his eyes I wonder if he’d comprehend Why to fear human kind For I was in his native land An intact forest of hardwood trees Where most are still discreet enough [...Read More]
The news broke on Facebook on Aug. 21: The Cornwall Country Market was up for sale. It swiftly rippled across town, provoking speculation about who and what might take over the building that has stood at the crossroads of [...Read More]
One of the takeaways from the “Finding Freeman|s” exhibit at the Cornwall Historical Society is how difficult it is to illuminate one of the country’s darkest eras. The main reason? The scarcity of records that can inform [...Read More]
