There’s something soothing about the companionship of a well-trained dog. That’s one of many reasons why Principal Cara Quinn would like to add a trained therapy dog to the West Hill School staff. She had one on hand the evening of April 28 during the annual book fair and children flocked to pet it and make friends.

Talk about a Boy Scout always being prepared. Shalin Patel, 15, showed up to his conversation with Rocky Hill LIFE wearing a necktie. The 15-year-old rising junior at Rocky Hill High School had his facts and figures straight. He is a member of Troop 121 and hopes to earn the highest rank the Boys Scouts of America has to offer – Eagle scout.

In March of 2017 Lisa Zerio, then the director of Rocky Hill Parks and Recreation, contacted the Rocky Hill Historical Society about an old flag that had been stored in the town vault for many years. We expected another 48-star flag to add to our collection but what we found was an even greater treasure.

David McSergi is a human conduit. If the Rocky Hill resident went back in time, he would be a telephone switchboard operator plugging in lines to connect people, or a courier hand-delivering important messages, or perhaps even a newsboy shouting, “extra, extra!”

A career playing the clarinet was born all because his music teacher said he didn’t have any rhythm. That’s how former Rocky Hill resident Giancarlo Bazzano starts his story that carried him across the ocean from Italy to playing with the U.S. Navy Band.

Many people have prescriptions medications that they no longer use filling up their medicine cabinets. Throwing them in the trash or flushing them down the toilet can have a negative environmental impact. There is a safer way to dispose of these medicines.

Call it a Christmas miracle, even if the idea was conceived at Christmastime, but not completed. Two friends have a casual conversation about crisscrossing the world and wind up raising thousands upon thousands of dollars to beat pediatric cancer. They also set a Guinness World Record while they were at it.

Rocky Hill started as an agricultural community dating back to the first settlers in 1650. That tradition continues today at Gilbert Farm, Hayes Farm and Fair Market Growers. Lisa Gilbert of Gilbert Farm “first got her hands dirty” in 1977, just as her great-great grandfather Elisha Gilbert did in 1845.