‘Photography and the Painted Image,’ an exhibition curated as part of a Connecticut College course last fall, will be on view at Lyman Allyn Art Museum from Jan. 17 through April 12.

The Zoning Commission on Tuesday approved a legal settlement authorizing a special permit for a scaled-back site plan at 43 Smith Neck Road after the controversial housing application was unanimously rejected one year ago.

The Board of Directors of Essex Bank announced this week that executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer Lynn Giroux will become president and CEO when Diane Arnold retires in August.

Two Old Lyme preserves are getting new wood duck houses thanks to members of the Lyme-Old Lyme High School ECOS (Environmental and Community Organization of Stewards) Club who hammered out a plan to create safe havens for cavity-nesting birds.