Cassandra Day spent 13 years at Middletown's daily newspaper, writing features and profiles of people and places in Middlesex County.
She began her journalism career while attending Central Connecticut State University, when she joined the Central Recorder, and subsequently filled in for every position that needed help. In 1993, she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English with a minor in journalism.
After a brief stint reporting at the New Britain Herald, West Hartford and Wethersfield Posts, she became the Middletown Press features editor. There, she wrote an award-winning mothering column for the Press and New Haven Register, won several Society of Professional Journalists awards for news and features and most notably helped coordinate coverage of Wesleyan University's loss of student Johanna Justin-Jinich, eventually moving to senior editor at the Press.
Cassandra is a longtime resident of Middletown, where she lives with her two boys.
In November 2010, she became editor of Haddam-East Haddam Patch and took over as editor of Middletown Patch in March 2011.
She is chair of the Middletown Arts Commission and community member on both the Board of Education communications committee and Macdonough Elementary School governance council.
It's unclear if there are injuries but police say the occupants were home at the time the fire broke out about 4:40 p.m. in a neighborhood between River Road and Eastern Drive.
The following police reports are obtained from the Middletown Police public information officer and inclusion on this list reflect charges filed, not convictions.
Middletown Police say her 5-year-old daughter witnessed her parents arguing late one night, her mother falling off the couch drunk, and said she hadn't eaten since lunchtime at school.
The Boy Scouts of America's Connecticut Yankee Council, which covers dozens of Connecticut towns, is breaking with the national organization and will now allow openly gay people to join.
Cuts in unemployment benefits will impact 30,000 Connecticut residents later this month.
Colleen Alleyne turned out to be a match for a kidney donation for her husband, Michael, who for years suffered from polycystic kidney disease and also is a diabetic.
The following police reports are obtained from the Middletown Police public information officer and inclusion on this list reflect charges filed, not convictions.
Since the shootings in Newtown state police have been swamped with applications for background checks on new pistol permits.
David Bauer's water sunsets are part of the Art for Haiti exhibit at the Zilka Gallery in Middletown. A dozen painters, sculptors and photographers will sell work to benefit Movin' with the Spirit.
All proceeds from your ticket to Food Improv: Where the Performing Arts Meets the Culinary Arts will go directly to Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater in Middletown.
Dermatologist Dr. Jennifer Pennoyer will be taking your questions on skin cancer prevention at noon on Thursday.
This Middlefield resident, named to the Hartford Business Journal’s 40 under 40, worked in the field for 12 years, and is former managing director of Wesleyan's Green Street Arts Center in Middletown.
The measure would require genetically modified foods to have labels making it clear they are scientifically engineered.
