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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.

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's weekly event in front of It's Only Natural Market on Main Street features area farms, restaurants and vendors.
Middletown Police say a 22-year-old woman with a history of shoplifting and an admitted ex-heroin user, told them she took the merchandise because she was hungry.
The council is requesting a meeting with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and stakeholders to field outstanding concerns and finalize a design that’s good for the city and the river.
A Middletown homeowner says he staked out teen boys across the street targeting his place with a pellet gun by peering at them with binoculars from his car.
In its heyday, Central News was open before the crack of dawn for factory workers, old timers and early risers looking to pass the time with coffee, breakfast and conversation.
Friends and family of the Middletown technical high school's Class of 2013 filled the auditorium of the Crowne Plaza in Cromwell for a jubilant ceremony.
Matthew Waleski of Durham, who was stopped last April by Middletown Police while riding his motorcycle on Country Club Road, had marijuana and cash in his backpack.
The debate society took its name from the first MHS club founded in 1890, a historical detail uncovered by MHS art teacher Patrick Shugrue.
Howard Franks of Darien was the first American airline passenger to be killed as a result of an airline hijacking.
Gun rights and Connecticut Citizens Defense League blogger E. Jonathan Hardy will take your questions and comments about the right to bear arms Wednesday.
Jonathan Gracia, who claimed to be developing a website and iPhone app, took investments and loans from his victims — and could be sentenced to up to 20 years in jail.
Three South Fire District personnel revived a 62-year-old man whose heart stopped after collapsing at a wedding reception this past April.