Person of the Week • Published Apr 23, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
One of the programs on the rise in the competitive cheerleading world in the Southern Connecticut Conference after this past winter was the Branford cheerleading team. A ...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 17, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Richard Shanahan is the chairman of the Town of Branford’s Parks and Open Space Authority.
Person of the Week • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Branford Family Resource Center Interim Director Ariana Loyola invites families to help celebrate the Week of the Young Child during Branford’s annual Early Childhood Fair and Family Day on Saturday, April 20 at the Branford Community House.
Person of the Week • Published Apr 09, 2024 02 am
By John Lecardo
For the Branford cheerleading team, it had to endure many twists and turns this season. Though in the end, it all came together in the best way possible–thanks in large p...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 03, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Rose Crisci is the founder of non-profit Blue Moon Raptors, which rehabilitates ill, injured, and orphaned birds of prey to return them back to their natural habitat. She also provides important educational programming with some of Blue Moon Raptors’ feathered ambassadors.
Person of the Week • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Kate Galambos, a Branford artist who enjoys exploring color, line, and shape, is exhibiting 35 of her works as the featured March and April artist in the Blackstone Library Artists Circle.
Person of the Week • Published Mar 19, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The cheerleading mat was Danielle Jones’ first home base for athletics. And more than a decade later, it has remained her lone nest for sports, but she has gained some en...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 13, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
After 44 years teaching with Branford Early Learning Center (BELC), Karen Tenbroeck retired on March 1. Generations of Tenbroeck’s BELC family gathered to wish her well during a special celebration at BELC on March 7.
Person of the Week • Published Mar 12, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The dance floor is a harbor for constant hustle and a multitude of movements. For Sadie Zalewski, she is a consistent locomotive–never stopping or leaning on past laurels...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 06, 2024 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Amy Scholz heads the East Shore District Health Department’s Environmental Health Division, looking after food safety, water and septic quality, and overall quality control of the federal Food Code. Photo courtesy of Amy Schloz
Person of the Week • Published Mar 05, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
No matter how much energy her rigorous training regimen drains out of her, Joelle Budz’s drive is kept in motion by the fact that she is well aware it is all worth it in ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
To honor the legacy of the late Robert Joseph “RJ” Giammattei and his love of soccer, his mom, Dawn Saczynski, and siblings, Vincent Giammattei, Jr., Michael Cross Giammattei and Marina Giammattei have founded a charitable organization, “RJ’s Goals.”
Person of the Week • Published Feb 21, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Kevin Halloran is shown here with wife, Pamela, and their two children, Ryan and Shannon, during his swearing in as North Branford Police Chief in 2019. After five years of exceptional North Branford police leadership, Halloran has retired from the role, completing a 35-year career in policing. Halloran also served as Branford Police Chief for eight years during a 30 year-career in Branford.
Person of the Week • Published Feb 20, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Enaji Muhammad just naturally loved the ability to leap. So when he saw he could actually put that attribute to an athletic competition, it was a move that was anything b...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 14, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Branford resident Jeffrey Fletcher brings important history to life as founder and executive director of the Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum in Stratford. He also shares the museum’s mission as a guest speaker including his recent talk in Branford and an upcoming talk in Guilford on Thursday, Feb. 22.
Person of the Week • Published Feb 12, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
The sport of running can often exhibit the purest form of athleticism and competition, as it is the body and the mind waging war. Tess Wasiolek has grasped that concept, ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 06, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Many times in sports, tales of triumph over adversity are often told on terrains of competition. Yet for Eric Zielinski’s story, he has penned an ultimate comeback volume...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 25, 2024 09 am
By Pam Johnson
For the love of poetry, and of her hometown of Branford, accomplished poet and educator Judith K. Liebmann has exciting plans for her new role as Branford’s inaugural Poet Laureate.
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
In many tasks and skills in life, the wherewithal to excel in it is quite often not enough. And so, one additionally needs the correct function and form to thrive. This i...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 10, 2024 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Around the same time that November’s cold days and nights began piling up, Branford resident Amy Rosen came up with a great idea to support local senior citizens. In a sn...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Basketball has been in Shelby Burnham’s blood ever since she could remember, and the beat of the rock unlocked her full and unearthed passion for the paint, and heart for...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 27, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
They say that home is where the heart is, and for Ryan Jones, that beat sounded true within the Branford football program. He was motivated and impassioned by his peers a...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 19, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
Once Riley O’Brien first stepped foot onto a volleyball court, she saw the sport as a ladder to success, and was eager to climb it. Now, only about seven years into it, s...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 13, 2023 02 pm
By John Lecardo
Sophie Mioline was always drawn to the game of soccer at the surface, but once she delved deeper and discovered the importance of quintessential colleagues and coaches aw...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 05, 2023 12 pm
By Pam Johnson
For many years, Branford resident Tom Brockett has dazzled community members with a show-stopping Christmas lights display at his Milo Drive home. This year, Tom’s displa...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 29, 2023 08 am
By Ben Rayner
Sometimes, it's okay to be the guinea pig, especially when you are one that is beloved and set to be the star of your own calendar. Madison Taylor of Killingworth has cre...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 22, 2023 08 am
By Pam Johnson
Diana Caty is a co-founder of non-profit Traveling Toys Inc., which funds and creates toy libraries by partnering with local libraries in high ALICE population communities. Photo courtesy Diana Caty
Person of the Week • Published Nov 09, 2023 08 am
By Pam Johnson
By capturing images of children and adults in daily life in Asia, Africa, and South America, Branford photographer Alice Laurenson offers a stunning display of the univer...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 09, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
It is not always how you start in a race or any athletic endeavor in life, but more about how you finish. Noah Hauswirth endured a slow and steady start, but he has sprin...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 31, 2023 12 pm
By Aaron Rubin
Volunteering has always been a part of Mary Amter’s life, and food was a fixture in that work. Even during her involvement with the Parent Teacher Organization or with to...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 26, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Reanna Sachs grew up in a deep and very athletic family, and her student-athlete life has mimicked her home life and upbringing by being part of another haven of support ...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 24, 2023 11 am
By Pam Johnson
Hold that pose: a special opportunity to enjoy the benefits of Hatha yoga with expert Gina MacDonald Page is open to the community, with all session proceeds to benefit t...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 18, 2023 06 am
By Pam Johnson
It’s been quite a year for one of the shoreline’s newest non-profits, Sound Life Connections Inc., which offers vocational, communication, and life skills training for yo...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 11, 2023 09 am
By Pam Johnson
Now that she’s launched her debut record at age 56, Laurie Kenney is ready to meet her next challenge: performing live. She’s set to take the stage for the very first tim...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 03, 2023 12 pm
By Pam Johnson
Saturday, Oct. 14 at Guilford Fairgrounds
Gather your family and friends: from donkey rides, a petting zoo, and touch-a-truck to live music and festive food and drin...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 29, 2023 04 pm
By John Lecardo
The volleyball court corrals quite a communal feeling for Jenna DeFrancesco and, through her experiences around her second family, she has been swarming the net with reso...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 29, 2023 07 am
By Pam Johnson
Call it the luck of the Irish — or, in this case, a love of everything Irish — for Bernadette Canning, the 2024 Grand Marshal of the Greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day P...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 22, 2023 08 am
By Pam Johnson
As a Community Dining Room (CDR) board member, John Allen brings a lot to the table, including his dedication to helping CDR incorporate more nutritional, plant-based mea...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 15, 2023 04 pm
By John Lecardo
Adversity hits us all at different points of time in our lives. We can choose two paths: one more productive, and another that can leave one spiraling into negativity and...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 14, 2023 01 pm
By Pam Johnson
With plans to run his fifth, sixth, and seventh marathons in Berlin, New York City (NYC), and London, Eric Goldstein is willing to go the extra mile to help fund scholarships dedicated to supporting individuals seeking addiction and mental health treatment.
Person of the Week • Published Sep 08, 2023 03 pm
By John Lecardo
Throughout her tenure in the sport of field hockey, Julia Bozzi has had great success between the pipes throughout the town of Branford. And for her final foray with her ...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 05, 2023 02 pm
By Pam Johnson
Friends of the Blackstone Library, board member John Smith is a friend, indeed, when it comes to promoting and supporting the Friends of the Blackstone Library Annual Book Sale. This year’s big tent event takes place on the Branford Green Thursday, Sept. 14 through Sunday, Sept. 17. Pam Johnson/The Sound
Person of the Week • Published Sep 01, 2023 06 am
By John Lecardo
Antonio Lynk has never not had a baseball in his hand, while simultaneously housing the drive and determination to improve and succeed on his skills. This was quite evide...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 23, 2023 06 am
By Pam Johnson
Jim Plunkett is proud to help put on a signature shoreline event for a great cause, the St. George Men’s Group Italian Festival in Guilford. The 2023 Italian Festival is set for Friday, Aug. 25, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 26, from 3 to 10 p.m. Admission is $5; ages 15 and under are free.
Person of the Week • Published Aug 15, 2023 11 am
By Pam Johnson
As the chairman of the all-volunteer and selectmen-appointed Solid Waste Management Commission, Paul Muniz has led the effort to transform Branford’s curbside automated trash and single-stream recycling program as point-person throughout a complicated process.
Person of the Week • Published Aug 11, 2023 05 am
By Pam Johnson
For his eagle scout award project, Jonathan Loffredo, 15, completed an interactive Branford trail walk with a technology-based native bird information component available at the tap of a Smartphone.
Person of the Week • Published Jul 26, 2023 08 am
By Pam Johnson
After 43 years working with Branford Public Schools, and eight elective terms on the RTM, Clare Torelli is retiring, and hopes to find a living kidney donor to help her overcome stage 5 kidney failure due to polycsytic kidney disease.
Person of the Week • Published Jul 25, 2023 11 pm
By John Lecardo
For Clara D’Amuri, she prides herself on appearing on the lacrosse turf in any way, shape or form, and she did that in quite a big way for the Branford girls’ lacrosse te...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 18, 2023 12 pm
By Pam Johnson
Community Dining Room’s (CDR) Andrea Savino has developed a 9-week series where weekly free Tuesday Night Community Dinners on the green are landing in one of four towns assisted by non-profit CDR: Branford, North Branford, Guilford and East Haven.
Person of the Week • Published Jul 13, 2023 08 am
By Pam Johnson
As founder of LINKED-Autism Safety Project, North Branford mom Ashley McClain is linking first responder emergency preparedness with the important family issue of safe and effective assistance to loved ones on the Autism spectrum.
