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.
The celebration was in honor of the South Windsor Volunteer Fire Department's 75th anniversary and coincided with the Connecticut Firefighters Convention.
The following police reports are obtained directly from the Middletown Police public information officer and inclusion on this list reflect charges filed, not convictions.
Middletown Police say they had two run-ins with the same man in one evening after a he was kicked out of the home he shares with his girlfriend.
Colleen Coburn and Taylor Funaro have graduated from this New Hampshire university.
The following folks whose lives touched Middletown have passed away.
Korczak Ziolkowski, who started his sculpting business and a family in West Hartford, created a huge sculpture of Native American hero Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dakota. His widow and children continue the project to this day.
This 2,400-square-foot Meriden home with a lower-level in-law space has changed hands recently.
So long, summer. Sept. 22 is the first day of fall
Ground Zero of the Great Hurricane of 1938 was the border of Connecticut and Rhode Island at Watch Hill. A storm-surge wave estimated to be nearly 50 feet in height obliterated 40 homes on Napatree Point.
The following police reports are obtained directly from the Middletown Police public information officer and inclusion on this list reflect charges filed, not convictions.
The Raid Our Gallery large-format photography benefit includes a reception and a New England Large Format Photography Collective print to take home.
Middletown's Realistic Balance party leaders say Connecticut's nomination signature requirement is nonsense. Meanwhile the town clerk maintains that she's bound by the law.
Connecticut legislators will host the annual Military Service Academy Day at the MG Maurice Rose Armed Forces Reserve Center in Middletown.
Middlesex Community College President Anna Wasescha says changes to the Middletown campus will include glass walls that overlook the forest, a significant natural resource for the college and the community.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says the meat, destined for cafeterias under the National School Lunch Program, should be subject to examination by a food safety agency.
On Saturday, Capitalism vs. the Climate members and supporters will march a half-mile route to Middletown's bank in protest of their investments in the Keystone XL pipeline.
On Saturday, Capitalism vs. the Climate members and supporters will march a half-mile route to Middletown's bank in protest of their investments in the Keystone XL pipeline.
Here's what is playing in area theaters this weekend, plus showtimes.
Joshua Nassi, former campaign manager for Chris Donovan, was sentenced to more than two years in prison.
The following police reports are obtained directly from the Meriden Police public information officer and inclusion on this list reflect charges filed, not convictions.
