LIFE

For graduating Glastonbury High School senior Izzy Zimmermann, the lives of graduates come down to three simple processes: love, loss and life.

Years ago, board of education Chairman Douglas C. Foyle and his wife had a parent teacher conference with then sixth-grade teacher Scott A. Hurwitz and walked out afterward impressed by the young educator.

Chris Bassette opened the historic John Hollister House as an Airbnb more than a year ago and has been welcoming families into the oldest house in town.

It’s that 152-acre landscape that draws me in, especially that pastoral view of the old farm from Route 4 – always a welcome break while usually stuck in that Route 4 traffic. But on this day, I sailed through and decided it was time to check out that pastoral view up close.

According to police Chief Marshall Porter the average person will experience two or three traumatic events over a lifetime. Police officers on average will experience three every six months on average. “And over a 30-year career, it's 180 traumatic events,” he said during the department’s annual awards ceremony May 14. “The job can go from routine to dangerous in a split second. They respond to traumatic scenes, violent deaths, mental health crises, serious crashes and every

For years, Superintendent Alan B. Bookman has spent part of a May board of education meeting lauding the careers of educators taking their final bows and heading off into retirement. This May was different. In addition to saying goodbye to a dozen teachers and administrators, Bookman himself will retire after 55 years in education.

The first person I met while navigating Berlin’s Ragged Mountain was a trail runner that I marveled at because I was struggling just leisurely hiking the traprock ridges and boulders. The second person was a man sitting on top of the mountain silently taking in the views.

On April 23, the Glastonbury Holocaust Remembrance Project hosted its third annual Holocaust Remembrance Evening, bringing together nearly 500 community members for a powerful night of reflection, education, and unity.