Scores for the 2010 Connecticut Mastery Test and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test were released last week by the state’s Department of Education. In Berlin, school administrators said students continue to perform well — for the most part at or near the top of their economic reference group.

Mayor Adam Salina announced this week that the town is starting a process to accept assignment of a contract from the Berlin Land Trust to acquire 44 acres off Chamberlain Highway from Girl Scouts of Connecticut, Inc. for open space use.

Sara Munson, director of Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, retired July 2 after 10 years of service. Munson is recognized for her work to expand the library collection and bring the library into the twenty-first century.

Two New Britain teens have been charged with home invasion after an early morning incident at a Berlin home July 12. Berlin police say the Newton Street homeowner fought back and stuck one of the intruders several times.

Due to an extended permitting process, the Beckley Road Bridge Reconstruction Project will not take place this summer. During the July 6 Town Council meeting, the panel approved using a temporary bridge for another year, but the cost of that option left some officials and residents extremely frustrated.

According to his mom, Tom Thibodeau was bit by the basketball bug at an early age. And like many young players, he dreamed of one day playing on the game’s grandest stage — in the NBA. That never came to be, but Thibodeau, now 52, has achieved the next best thing.

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Tom Thibodeau and the Boston Celtics' Ray Allen.

With a sparse stage setup, and deft, soulful musicianship, a Justin Bieber concert it was not. Then again, folks who packed Mohegan Sun Arena to see the Doobie Brothers and Chicago July 7 were there for the music, not the spectacle.

And fans got what they came for.