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.
Middletown Police say a 19-year-old Portland man threatened two moviegoers with bodily harm after one asked he and his friend to be quiet during a filming of "Grown-Ups 2."
Your instincts are right, July 2013 was the hottest ever in Connecticut, weather experts report.
Middletown residents complained about the duo's drug sales in a public housing project, which led to a warrant and eventually their arrests this week.
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 GOP members whose long term party failed to nominate them for the November ballot filed petitions qualifying them to run as independents on Election Day.
Trade cooking tips with former "Chopped" contestant Chef Chris Avtges for our live lunch chat on Aug. 7 from noon to 12:45 p.m.
The legislation would allow businesses like the family-owned Pegasus Manufacturing in Middletown to reinvestment account to reinvest profits into their business tax-free.
Sunday's daylong concert at Middlesex Community College includes poetry, dance and creative expression.
Here's the Tuesday Aug. 6 edition of Today in Middletown — valuable information about life in the Forest City.
Greenbelt Management of Fairfield hopes to build its production facility in a 15,000-square-foot area of Middletown's Remington Rand building. In Connecticut, only West Haven has rubber stamped such plans.
Two Middletown men were arrested for breaking chairs, a kitchen table and countertop and busting a hole in the kitchen wall of a woman's home.
"Passionate Waters," created by Willimantic-based artists Melica Bloom and Benjamin Keller, was raised Friday evening on the former Community Health Center Dental office at Green and Main streets.
An astounding 14,536 babies drank mother's milk simultaneously on Aug. 2 and 3 at 10:30 a.m. each day, as women and their children came together round the world and breastfed simultaneously.
Backpacks don't have to just look good, they have to feel good too. Keep your child comfortable this school year by finding a quality backpack during back-to-school shopping.
Children who will be 5 years old on or before Jan. 1, 2014, may register.
