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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 has taken four years to get this bill through the General Assembly. What's your take?

The following folks whose lives touched Middletown have passed away.
Family, friends and coworkers gathered Thursday at Middletown's South Fire District to welcome William Gregorio, Kevin McDonnell, William O'Donnell and John Lynch.
The 6- and 7-year-old Starlettes won Top Overall in the Junior Petite division of the Starbound National Talent Competition for the Lakeside Academy of Dance of Middletown on April 13.
The following information was provided by the Middletown Police Department. Inclusion on this list does not indicate a conviction.
Their goal is to see the defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Tsarnaev's mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that she wants to bury Tamerlan in her native Dagestan, but that Russia is not allowing her to bring back the body.
Tuition and fee hikes implemented this year won't yield badly-needed revenues until 2014.
Middletown businesses have some news to share with you.
The criminal complaint says on March 12 and April 10, 2013, a Connecticut State Police detective found images and videos of child pornography uploaded to the Internet by Cromwell resident Samuel DiProto.