LIFE

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.

America’s birthday at 250 years is also referred to as its semiquincentennial and it has been celebrated across the country, all throughout the year. Valley towns have been busy with multiple activities, from readings of the Declaration, to historical lectures, to plays and reenactments, to grand festivals with fireworks or parades. They have commemorated this historic event in ways as unique as their towns.

A little rain didn’t prevent General George Washington from leading the 2026 Memorial Day Festivities in Avon, an event that also featured Betsy Ross and other historical figures.'

Like many area towns, a rained-out Memorial Day parade didn’t prevent Canton officials and residents from taking some time to reflect and ponder.

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.