LIFE

Glastonbury public schools has completed the hiring process for three outstanding elementary school principals. We are confident that these accomplished and dynamic school leaders will be successful.

Julie Grant walked around the apartment stopping at a framed montage of photos of her with stars like Taylor Swift, Meatloaf, the Amazing Kreskin, B.J. Thomas and Donovan. The photos take her back in time to when she was a co-producer for the Pollstar Awards.

Last October, dozens of people gathered around the Riverfront Community Center and planted hundreds of daffodils to honor the memory of children who died in the Holocaust. By the time the third annual Holocaust Remembrance Evening is held in April, those blooms will help symbolize hope for the future.

I stood on a trail footbridge over a rusted gate that once fed water that helped to power a paper mill. I walked along an earthen dike to the remains of a brownstone dam that now looks strangely out of place in the middle of the woods. I climbed aboard an abandoned railroad to an old trestle bridge high above the Hockanum River.

Susan Goodrich Motycka has been portraying and telling the legendary story of Eunice Cobb Stocking for years. The town’s chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, founded in 1961, is named after Stocking.

Board of education chairman Douglas C. Foyle hangs a school calendar on a wall in his house and looks forward to the end of each month. “It’s always exciting to flip that calendar to the next month and see what the next month has,” he said.

The Connecticut River Valley Chamber of Commerce will celebrate a decade of collaboration and growth - with more than 580 members from Glastonbury, East Hartford Marlborough and Hebron - at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Hangar Museum in East Hartford March 3.