If mail theft hasn't made you re-think using the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), here is another: you can no longer drop a time-sensitive document into the Big Blue Box and assume it will be postmarked that day. Effective December 24, 2025, a new USPS rule officially clarified that a postmark is technically defined as the time when a piece of mail is processed at a regional facility (e.g., Stamford), not when it is dropped into a collection box. To guarantee a legal postmark on the day you send...

As of January 1, 2026, Connecticut's minimum wage has officially climbed from $16.35 to $16.94 per hour. That means Connecticut now ranks as a national outlier with the second highest statewide minimum wage in the United States, trailing only Washington state ($17.13). This latest uptick marks a significant milestone in a journey that began in May 2019, when Governor Ned Lamont (D) signed the law tying annual increases to the CT Department of Labor's Employment Cost Index. According to this...

Marie Feniello, 65, a former Greenwich resident who lived on Bedford Road, is scheduled to appear in Stamford Superior Court on January 7, 2026. She faces multiple charges of animal cruelty and an additional charge of first-degree criminal trespass stemming from a separate incident in March 2025. The core of the case dates back to November 2024, when Greenwich Police visited Feniello's Bedford Road home. What they found was a scene of horrific neglect: two Black Labs, Augie and Sawyer, had...