12/1/2016 orazzi photo Kristen Gloss.
12/1/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff Santa arrives during the annual tree lighting at the Plainville Fire Company Thursday evening.
Temple UConn Football
Connecticut safety Obi Melifonwu (20) in action against Temple during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in East Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
11/30/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff Bristol Reservoir Number 4 off Route 72 in Harwinton.
Connecticut Houston Football
Connecticut head coach Bob Diaco watches from the sideline in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Houston, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
DePaul UConn Basketball
Connecticut's Kia Nurse is fouled by DePaul's Amarah Coleman, right, as she drives to the basket in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Storrs, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
1/22/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff Bristol Eastern's Mike Giovinazzo.
12/2/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff Horse drawn carriage rides during the Southington Hospitality Night held on the town greens in Plantsville and Southington Friday evening.
12/2/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff William Andujar talks about the two roosters removed from the basement of the Tropical Market, Convenience store on School Street in Bristol.
Trump Mattis
FLE - In this March 5, 2013, file photo, then-Marine Gen. James Mattis, commander, U.S. Central Command, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate retired Gen. James Mattis to lead the Defense Department.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Connecticut's Saniya Chong, left, and Katie Lou Samuelson react in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against DePaul, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Storrs, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
12/1/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff Miss Bristol 2017 Gina Salvatore (center) with Miss Forestville's Outstanding Teen Cassandra Lechner (left) and Miss Bristol's Outstanding Teen Victoria Kilbourne (right) collects money from Jack Mendenhall during a toy drive outside the Bristol Walmart Thursday night.
12/3/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff Miss Bristol 2017 Gina Salvatore photographs Santa during the Giamatti Little League Center’s “23rd Annual Breakfast with Santa Saturday morning.
DePaul's Kelly Campbell, right, guards Connecticut’s Natalie Butler, left, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Storrs, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Russia Japan
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. Putin is to travel to Japan later this month to meet the Japanese prime minister and discuss a territorial dispute over the southern Kuril islands which keeps the two countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their World War II hostilities. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, pool)
APTOPIX Oil Pipeline
Law enforcement vehicles line a road leading to a blocked bridge next to the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Texas UConn Basketball
Connecticut's Kia Nurse reacts in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Texas, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
