The Connecticut Sea Music Festival is one of the region’s biggest annual celebrations of maritime music. “People will hear sea shanties — which are sailors’ work songs," said Deirdre Murtha, one of ...

A volunteer fire company truck caught fire Saturday in Essex during the Ivoryton Illuminations celebration. The fire broke ...

The seventh annual Connecticut Spring Boat show is coming to Essex this weekend bringing live music, beer samples from Centerbrook’s Surfridge Brewing Company East and more. The Connecticut Spring ...

The Essex Steam Train and Riverboat announced operational delays Wednesday evening due to a vehicle being stuck on the train ...

Essex was in the national spotlight on Tuesday as The Today Show visited as part of its "Merriest Main Streets" holiday series. It was a joyful morning in Ivoryton as dozens of people packed onto the ...

Far south past Griswold Point on the Connecticut River, Long Island is a smudge on the horizon, or "hull down" as mariners might say. The big river seems to have come to a dead stop, as if unable to ...

Fifth graders at Essex Elementary took part in dissection day during their program with the CT Audubon Society. They spent part of the class picking apart and looking closely at something called owl ...

RIVER VALLEY, ESSEX, CONNECTICUT IS QUAINT WITH A POPULATION THAT HOVERS AROUND 7000. IT IS JAM PACKED WITH HISTORY AND WITH VIEWS LIKE THIS. A PERFECT PLACE TO SOAK IN THAT NEW ENGLAND CHARM. TODAY, ...