ESSEX — Residents may soon see heavy equipment along the Essex River, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers embarks on a $4.4 million dredging project this fall for the winding waterway’s shoaled areas.

ESSEX — Out-of-town residents could win the prize of access to the Essex River through a lottery to be held through the middle of the month. The town will sell special permits to the lottery winners ...

ESSEX >> It is winter time at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex and across the river two adult Bald Eagles are sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on a branch above their old nest. They’ve been breeding ...

ESSEX — One of the state’s culinary customs will return to the Connecticut River Museum during this year’s Essex annual shad bake next month. For 60 years, the Rotary Club of Essex has hosted this ...

As this book's geological contents occupy not quite sixty pages, and as “Bibliography and References” occupy three pages, and refer to fifty-nine different memoirs, or papers, on various points in ...

In the basement of the 280-year-old Samuel Lay House you can see hand-hewn chestnut beams with bark still on the sides. Upstairs in this stately merchant’s house overlooking Essex harbor, a pair of ...