CORRECTION: JRC Connecticut newspapers won 30 awards and JRC in total won 87 awards in a the Local Media Association newspaper contest for 2011, according to a revised list of awards from the Association.

(Due to computer upgrades from the organization, some entries had been entered in the wrong category and were therefore disqualified)

The annual Easter Apple Hunt at Lyman Orchards originally scheduled for this Saturday has been postponed until Saturday, April 7, organizers announced today.

In our haste to report the breaking news of the East Haddam fire Monday and Tuesday, we incorrectly called the East Haddam fire chief John Angersola, instead of his correct name, Don Angersola.

In Tuesday's Middletown Press print edition, two advertisement contain the wrong phone number for Dino's Oil. The company recently had to change its number, and the new phone number is (860) 759-0909.

CORRECTION: Students from the Independent Day School selected to perform in a music festival are sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, not just sixth- and seventh-graders.

Readers of the Middletown Press were quick to point out this morning that a letter to the editor we published was actually a piece of satire that was picked up and has circulated as a chain letter for a number of years.
Rather than delete the letter from our website, we have included an editor's note at the top of the page acknowledging and explaining our error.
Click here for an explanation of its chain letter roots.
This one got by our editors in error.

CORRECTION: The comedy event at Seven Angels Theater listed in our St. Patrick's Day events schedule will feature four New York City comedians, not the Smothers Brothers, and the show starts at 8 p.m.

25 Years Ago: Cromwell’s general budget request for the next year included money to hire a full-time compliance officer who would be responsible for zoning and wetlands enforcement as well as watchdogging the nonbuilding aspects of developments.
25 Years Ago: Although the proposed budget for Essex showed an increase for the following fiscal year, First Selectman John A. Johns predicted that it would be absorbed by the rise in the1986 grand list.

"Utter" has been corrected to "udder" in a story about a centenarian recalling milking cows.