News: Groton officials are confident that after an extensive marking effort three vacant properties will see redevelopment in 2019.

Business: Grass & Bone in Mystic uses everything, from nose to tail, to produce meat and other products for its three restaurants and the public.

Daybreak: The Terror and its sister ship, the Erebus, remain deep in their watery graves off King William Island in the Canadian Arctic. But an exhibit of artifacts taken from the ships, "Death in the Ice: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition," is on display at the Mystic Seaport Museum through April 28.

Perspective: As the Democrats have done in the past, Connecticut Republicans have thrown a life raft to a state representative who lost her  seat. Melissa Ziobron has been hired as the Senate Republican Office's budget director.