"Her heart sank. This was Wethersfield! Just a narrow sandy stretch of shoreline, a few piles sunk in the river with rough planking for a platform. Out of the mist jutted a row of cavernous wooden structures that must be warehouses, and beyond that the dense, dripping green of fields and woods."

Gov. M. Jodi Rell and state police unveiled upgrades to the state's Sex Offender Registry Wednesday that they say will help parents and officers keep better track of sex offenders.