When you spot the red Jeep at the intersection of Powder Horn Dr. and Squadron Line Rd. in Simsbury at either 8:30 a.m. or 3:30 p.m., you’ll know Miss Michele is here – Michele Abbott, that is. Her post is just up the hill from Squadron Line Elementary School, where she’s been a crossing guard since 2014.

The annual Community Celebration, held at First Church of Christ, Simsbury for many years, is particularly poignant for local residents as King came to the town is the summers of 1944 and 1947 with his fellow Morehouse College students to work in tobacco fields.

At the bi-monthly Anime Club at the Noah Webster Library, the stakes are high during a game of Jeopardy. Like the popular television show, the categories—Character Themes, Things That Start with “D”, Backgrounds, Whose Weapon Is This?, and Guess the Logo—get progressively harder as the value of the money goes up.

Harmony is the positive result that most of seek when we come together in friendship, fellowship and especially in music. During these turbulent times, harmony is difficult to find, but the Sound of New England Chorus offers the musical beauty of female voices singing together a capella in four-part harmony on a regular basis.

Louis Armstrong played coronet, not trumpet, until he joined the Fletcher Henderson Band at age 23. The bandleader took one look at his coronet and sent him off with a fellow band member to get a trumpet to better blend with the Henderson orchestra's brass section.

The concept is that everyone should be able to participate in general society. That includes those who are on the autism spectrum. That’s why the town Human, Youth and Social Services Department, in partnership with the East Hartford-based nonprofit Shine Your Light, held an Inclusivity Event the evening of Feb. 9 at the community/senior center.