LIFE

Kotler’s outfits, like the woman herself, have a reason and a season. For instance, she said, “being a breast cancer survivor, in October I wear pink every day” for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. After her initial diagnosis in 2019 and a double mastectomy, she also developed thyroid and skin cancer. Despite continual infusions and double-digit surgeries, she is still smiling and plotting her next stylish ensemble.

Who has more bones, a human baby or a snake? The answer is the snake; depending on their size, a snake can have up to 1800 bones. Babies have between 270-300 bones.

Pastor Brian (full title: Rev. Dr. Brian R. Rajcok, PhD), the lead pastor at St. Matthew Lutheran Church on Lovely Street in Avon, thinks psychedelics can be a pathway to the divine. “Psychedelics have been used for thousands of years for spiritual purposes,” he says. “It’s not just a discovery from the ‘60s. It goes back to the peyote ceremony, the ayahuasca ceremonies. And what can indigenous spiritualities teach Western people? That’s something I think could be really va

In recent years, Simsbury Public Library has greatly expanded its outreach and now, thanks to the initiative of a local middle schooler, a Little Free Food Pantry is open at the facility.

Like many towns, Simsbury hosted a public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, marking 250 years since the first public readings of the document. The document had been approved by Congress on July 4 of 1776. It is believed that most of those who signed it did so on Aug. 2 of that year.

The warm, sunny early evening of June 20 at Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center proved to be the perfect setting for the fourth Annual Juneteenth Celebration. The free event and largest of its kind in the Farmington Valley was supported by four local towns that banded together, Avon, Farmington, Granby and Simsbury. The towns were represented by tents set up by their local libraries.

It started as a dream four decades ago. The evolution of cable television allowed for cities and towns to create their own community access TV channels.

School administrators and teachers consider paraprofessionals, or paraeducators as they are also called, to be the unsung heroes of the classroom.