LIFE

Firefighters don’t just extinguish fires. They provide emergency medical aid, rescue people from burning buildings, extricate people trapped in crashed cars and trucks, and other scenarios, and much more.

Town officials temporarily declared five towers at the Concierge Apartments on Cold Spring Road unfit for habitation after alleged building code violations were discovered including lack of heat, burst pipes, flooding and issues with fire safety.

America’s historic involvement with slavery reached all the way to the town of Rocky Hill. The first pastor of the Rocky Hill Congregational Church, the Rev. Daniel Russel, owned a female slave named Cloe Prut.

They tend to see people on one of the worst days of their lives. That’s why the skills and compassion of the people who provide emergency medical services through the Rocky Hill Volunteer Ambulance Association are so important to the community.

For more than nine decades, Ukrainian immigrants and Americans of Ukrainian ancestry in Connecticut have had a place to come together to share and preserve their culture, language and history.

Susan Goodrich Motycka has been portraying and telling the legendary story of Eunice Cobb Stocking for years. The town’s chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, founded in 1961, is named after Stocking.