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After Toddler’s Death, Connecticut Family Channels Grief into Action
Couple pushes for newborn screening law in Connecticut Legislature.

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.
Couple pushes for newborn screening law in Connecticut Legislature.

Middletown Mayor Dan Drew presented proclamations to director, teacher and playwright Carolyn Kirsch and the Middlesex County Community Foundation to celebrate National Arts Advocacy Day locally.
A 55-year-old city man, whom a witness said was performing a lewd act in his car parked in a Washington Street plaza parking lot, was arrested for refusing to comply with police.
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In a new report The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities says comprehensive reform is needed.
Personal income in this state grew by just 2 percent in 2012.
Adam Gabriel Jensen of Wesleyan University's Astronomy Department says the Lyrids are some of the brightest and most active meteor showers, but are not particularly exceptional.
The university's Mu Epsilon Chapter of Beta Theta Pi has expressed "outrage" at the allegation and is cooperating with Middletown and campus police to find a suspect.
The issue has arisen at Middletown's oldest elementary school because of lack of classroom space for art, music and support staff, according to Superintendent of Schools Patricia Charles.
The president of the Greater Middletown Branch of the American Association of University Women says these numbers are even more alarming when considering the high number of women heads of household.
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State legislative leaders have provided President Obama a framework on the national gun debate.
Obama will be in West Hartford to speak with University of Hartford students, faculty, and guests about gun violence, requesting the support of the American people to urge Congress to pass gun control measures.
Most of the information on the registry would come from documents that are available to the public under the FIO law.