25 years ago: A Cromwell couple protested police, claiming that officers verbally abused and insulted them while conducting an investigation. Police did an internal investigation which lead to the cops being exonerated from wrongdoing in the matter.

25 years ago: Haddam Selectmen hired Rober Tommell, who at the time was the Durham town engineer, to serve as Haddam’s town engineer and sanitarian. Tommell had worked for the town of Durham since 1983.