Person of the Week • Published Jun 01, 2023 10 am
By John Lecardo
Nathan Furino always brought the heat on the mound for the Yellowjackets, but now the alum has assumed a role of a reliable arm as part of the pitching staff at Eastern C...
Person of the Week • Published May 31, 2023 07 am
By Aaron Rubin
While the State of Connecticut no longer recognizes COVID-19 as a public health emergency, that doesn’t mean people should be nonchalant about what remains the third lead...
Person of the Week • Published May 24, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
The 77th annual Memorial Day Parade in North Haven will take place on May 27 and be sponsored by the American Legion Post 76. This year’s grand marshal is Bob Maturo, a N...
Person of the Week • Published May 17, 2023 04 pm
By Aaron Rubin
The re-opening of the Pasquale G. “Patsy” DiLungo Veterans Memorial Ice Rink has brought a sense of pride to the East Haven community and its ice hockey fans and players....
Person of the Week • Published May 09, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
The coronavirus pandemic strongly impacted student relationships in American schools, including East Haven High School (EHHS). To ease those severed ties and provide supp...
Person of the Week • Published May 02, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
For Izabella Olszewski, the sport of tennis has not only relaxed her mind and body, it has also strengthened her spirit mentally into a constant and persistent positive m...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 27, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
Following a very fruitful and successful tenure across multiple athletic terrains at East Haven High School (EHHS), Tori Heaphy has not skipped a beat while ascending to ...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 25, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Agatha Esposito believes that when a project is started, it must be completed. Examples of that belief are present in her room at her residence at the Village at Mariner’...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 20, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
As she burns rubber with her legs, leaps high through the air and over the hurdles on the East Haven High School track, Erica Canfield also leaves her adversaries in the ...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 18, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Doreen Hausler says she is no wallflower. She knows quite a lot of people and can even recognize people with whom she attended high school across the spacey and cacophono...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 13, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Taylor Salato dedicated herself to the court and her club while playing basketball for East Haven High School and, only two years after her departure, she is continuing t...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 11, 2023 07 am
By Aaron Rubin
Helping those in need has been a fixture in Ann Penington’s life and has led her to be a proud member of multiple organizations dedicated to that cause, making life bette...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 05, 2023 09 am
By Aaron Rubin
If there’s a secret to reaching 105 years of age, Marie Streeto hasn’t discovered it yet.
“I just take every day. That’s it. You don’t think of what year it is or anythin...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 04, 2023 06 am
By John Lecardo
When compared to his teammates and adversaries on the mats, Elijah Trufan has had quite a truncated career as a high school wrestler. Yet despite the short stint, he has ...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 28, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
John D’Albero knows that when fortitude meets good fortune in the sport of hockey, a player can reap the benefits of the two traits colliding for himself and his teammate...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 28, 2023 11 am
By Aaron Rubin
If there is such a thing as the “transportation gene,” it’s been dominant in Melinda Torelli’s family. Before school buses were on the streets of the shoreline, her grea...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 21, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
For Noah Franchi, he knows that wrestling is not simply a sport, but rather, it is an entire lifestyle. Yet no matter the demands of the mat, he commands the respect of h...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 21, 2023 07 am
By Aaron Rubin
As a teacher in special education at East Haven Academy, Nicholas Palazzo recognizes the value in working with students who have physical and/or mental disabilities, and ...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 16, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
When he was younger, JP (Jon-Paul) Garea was told by his peers that he should be a stopper for anything and everything due to his stature. Years later, he combined his si...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 15, 2023 10 am
By Aaron Rubin
Andrea Kenney specifically remembers starting her position as program coordinator at the East Haven Recreation Department on Aug. 29, 2022. Previously working as the prog...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 07, 2023 06 am
By John Lecardo
The sport of wrestling can be a very harrowing and humbling journey. For Dylan Snyder, he experienced this firsthand and, like a great grappler, found his way through rou...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 07, 2023 06 am
By Aaron Rubin
Cindy Giametti became a paraprofessional immediately following her graduation from Quinnipiac University 33 years ago, starting out at a middle school in Branford. After ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 28, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Emily Higgins began working at Animal Control right after graduating from her alma mater, Daniel Hand High School, in Madison. She grew up on a farm in the town’s norther...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 28, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Out of the five positions possible for her to play on a basketball court, it has ended up advantageous for Kelsey Murray to take on the shooting guard assignment because ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 22, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
No matter the twists and turns of his high school wrestling career, Chris Doheny has continuously found his way back to the mat, which has led to him pinning down opponen...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 16, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Teen Services and Young Adult Librarian Emily Kalotai has found a home with Hagaman Memorial Library. Not just with a supportive staff but with the young readers in the d...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 14, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
The free-flowing nature of basketball really drew Josiah Perez to the game, and kept him in the game since he was a young toddler. The passion for the court has carried o...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 07, 2023 09 am
By Aaron Rubin
For many of its older staff, Hagaman Memorial Library is like a second home. That is according to Elaine Sammarco, one the few working members of Hagaman who has still be...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 07, 2023 09 am
By John Lecardo
Diana Kalman had one of the more decorated careers in the history of the East Haven volleyball program, with memorable moments, key victories, and stunning solo accolades...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 02, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
When speaking about his assignment on the court, Angelo D’Amato loves to roam freely as a guard. That love has enabled him to run free and shoot his shot openly and often...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 31, 2023 09 am
By Aaron Rubin
Even after 31 years at East Haven Animal Control, it was not easy for former East Haven Animal Control Chief Owen Little to make a definitive departure. Despite stepping ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 26, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to the sport of cheerleading, Adriana Esposito relishes in the mental movements within the competition. And she has become a swell tactician, learning sever...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 24, 2023 07 am
By Aaron Rubin
Since childhood, people are taught to call 911 in the case of an emergency, whether someone has badly injured themselves or when there is serious and immediate danger sur...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 18, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
Camaraderie through competition within the sporting world can be a great source of success. That adage rings true for Rocco Lombardi, as he has developed many court colle...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 18, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Following the death of her dog Cassie, Carolyn Rossi-Carfora found that she wanted to spend more time around animals. Not knowing where to go, a coworker told her about ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 13, 2023 10 am
By John Lecardo
Playing soccer for nearly a decade and a half, Gianna Mendez never stops to improve upon herself from the previous play, game, or season. That was certainly evident as sh...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 11, 2023 08 am
By Aaron Rubin
Constant upward mobility has been a fixture in the life of Lucille Finkel, who can encapsulate such a direction considering the changing nature of automobiles.
“I remembe...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 07, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Whether it is pushing himself to his physical limits on the field or weight room, or while stretching his mental capacity in eyeing cornerbacks’ tendencies or mastering n...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 28, 2022 12 pm
By Aaron Rubin
The life of a centenarian does not happen without constantly moving forwards, as 102-year-old East Haven resident Lilian Belenardo understands from her century-long time ...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 28, 2022 08 am
By John Lecardo
For Ava Avena, volleyball was the furthest thing on her radar during her athletic beginnings. But now, she has gone from equestrian to setting as a very key component to ...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 21, 2022 09 am
By Aaron Rubin
For Sarah Mallory, becoming the new director of Hagaman Memorial Library is a homecoming.
"I grew up in East Haven, so this is the first library I went to when I was a l...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 20, 2022 02 pm
By John Lecardo
For Gabby Gaetano, the communal aspect of being on a sports team has always been at the crux of her passion for athletics. She helped make that evident by being a captain...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 14, 2022 09 am
By John Lecardo
Throughout her playing tenure in town, Miranda Gladwin developed into a consummate teammate, leader, and professional. Now, she is utilizing the tools she garnered from t...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 14, 2022 09 am
By Aaron Rubin
Hair is a sensitive topic for many people from all walks of life, but very much for many women of color. Inadequate training, expertise, and lack of diversity in the hair...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 08, 2022 09 am
By Aaron Rubin
Pasquale G. “Patsy” DiLungo Veterans Memorial Ice Rink celebrated its grand re-opening on Nov. 19, following two years of renovations during the coronavirus pandemic. Whi...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 07, 2022 09 am
By John Lecardo
Taya Ragaini made a shift in her athletic endeavors upon entering middle school, and it was a match made on the mat, as she has seen her cheerleading career blossom into ...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 30, 2022 03 pm
By Aaron Rubin
Nicole Ferrigno says she always wanted to be a teacher.
“I was very into elementary [education] and seeing the comprehension aspect of things. [Children] not really learn...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 23, 2022 12 pm
By Aaron Rubin
From the time he was six years old, John Proto recognized the wonder of trolley cars. It became almost mandatory that he and his family visit the Shore Line Trolley Museu...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 23, 2022 12 pm
By James Kidd
Dominic Salato cherishes every time he walks onto a football field. Win or lose, he is passionate about the sport and his teammates. This year, he is a senior captain and...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 17, 2022 10 am
By Aaron Rubin
The sun was setting on a Good Friday evening in the California desert when a chaplain assigned to Mark’s United States Army unit made a symbolic yet compelling presentati...
