Hayes hangs on for a third term
State Rep. Maria Horn (D-64) waited with supporters outside North Canaan Town Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 8, as voters arrived. 
Photo by John Coston

Hayes hangs on for a third term

LAKEVILLE — Jahana Hayes (D-5) won a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives (5th District) in the elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Incumbent Gov. Ned Lamont (D) and Lieutenant Gov. Susan Bysiewicz (D) led the way as Democratic candidates swept statewide offices: attorney general, secretary of the state, treasurer, and comptroller.

Lamont/Bysiewicz, running on the Democratic, Working Families and Griebel Frank for Connecticut lines, received 709,772 votes (55.92%) to Republicans Bob Stefanowski and Laura Devlin’s 547,090 votes (43.10%).

Attorney General William Tong (Democratic and Working Families) received 714,718 votes (57.08%). Republican Jessica Kordas received 518,569 votes (41.40%). The remainder was split between Independent and Green party candidates.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) defeated GOP challenger Leora Levy to win a third term.

Blumenthal, running on the Democratic and Working Families lines, received 724,521 votes (57.46%) to Levy’s 536,388 votes (42.54%)

In a nailbiter, the incumbent Hayes (Democratic and Working Families) received 127,776 votes for 50.39%. Challenger George Logan (Republican/Independent lines) came up short with 125,801 votes for 49.61%.

The CT-5 race wasn’t called until Wednesday evening, Nov. 9.

State Rep. Maria Horn (D-64) won reelection easily, with 7,363 votes for 63.99% (Democratic, Independent and Working Families lines). GOP challenger Chris DuPont received 4,182 votes for 36.01%.

The GOP’s Stephen Harding takes over for the retiring Craig Miner in the 30th State Senate district, with 24,404 votes (53.81%) to 20,945 for Eva Bermudez Zimmerman (20,945 votes for 46.19% on the Democratic, Independent and Working Families lines).

The new probate court judge is Republican Jordan M. Richards, who won with 10,387 votes (50.84%) to 10,044 (49.16%) for the Democratic candidate, Kristen Mostowy.

All results are from the Secretary of the State website as of Sunday, Nov. 13.

On Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, several town clerks reported difficulties with reporting results to the state. morning

Latest News

Angela Derrico Carabine

SHARON — Angela Derrick Carabine, 74, died May 16, 2025, at Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was the wife of Michael Carabine and mother of Caitlin Carabine McLean.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated on June 6 at 11:00 a.m. at Saint Katri (St Bernards Church) Church. Burial will follow at St. Bernards Cemetery. A complete obituary can be found on the website of the Kenny Funeral home kennyfuneralhomes.com.

Revisiting ‘The Killing Fields’ with Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Jennifer Almquist

On June 7 at 3 p.m., the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington will host a benefit screening of “The Killing Fields,” Roland Joffé’s 1984 drama about the Khmer Rouge and the two journalists, Cambodian Dith Pran and New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, whose story carried the weight of a nation’s tragedy.

The film, which earned three Academy Awards and seven nominations — including one for Best Actor for Sam Waterston — will be followed by a rare conversation between Waterston and his longtime collaborator and acclaimed television and theater director Matthew Penn.

Keep ReadingShow less
The art of place: maps by Scott Reinhard

Scott Reinhard, graphic designer, cartographer, former Graphics Editor at the New York Times, took time out from setting up his show “Here, Here, Here, Here- Maps as Art” to explain his process of working.Here he explains one of the “Heres”, the Hunt Library’s location on earth (the orange dot below his hand).

obin Roraback

Map lovers know that as well as providing the vital functions of location and guidance, maps can also be works of art.With an exhibition titled “Here, Here, Here, Here — Maps as Art,” Scott Reinhard, graphic designer and cartographer, shows this to be true. The exhibition opens on June 7 at the David M. Hunt Library at 63 Main St., Falls Village, and will be the first solo exhibition for Reinhard.

Reinhard explained how he came to be a mapmaker. “Mapping as a part of my career was somewhat unexpected.I took an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), the technological side of mapmaking, when I was in graduate school for graphic design at North Carolina State.GIS opened up a whole new world, new tools, and data as a medium to play with.”

Keep ReadingShow less