The West Hartford News, originally called The Metropolitan Shopping News, was first published in 1931. The library holds this publication on microfilm. The paper is indexed by librarians, starting in 1970.

West Hartford Life is a monthly publication which began in 1998. Indexed by librarians, it is available in print and on microfilm.

Newspaper Clipping Files and Archives: Items of local interest are regularly clipped from West Hartford and Hartford newspapers and are filed by subject in vertical files. Some clippings date back to the 1940’s and 1950’s.