LIFE

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!”

It’s just like spring cleaning and refreshing the wardrobe in your closet. Deanna Reney, the owner of Karma’s Closet Consignment Boutique on Garfield Street, decluttered her long list of leadership activities so she could focus on the town’s Economic Development Commission.

Founded in 1917, Lions Club International is 109 years old. It’s the world’s largest volunteer service organization with 1.4 million members in more than 200 countries.

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.

The spirit of independence runs deep at the 1851 Kitchen and Cocktail Bar. Named after the year the town of Cromwell was separated from Middletown and became its own official municipality, the restaurant serves “new American cuisine” reflecting global influences.

Matthew Fletcher was born to play baseball. As a child, he circled the bases a lot, moving from town to town including Stamford, Trumbull, Fairfield – and Glastonbury twice – until coming to Wethersfield in 2015.

Flowers are the gift that keeps on giving. So, it’s only natural for an employee of the Greater Hartford Gives Foundation (formerly the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving) to find a volunteer outlet in hopes of doing the same.

by Sarah Barr Staff Writer On certain days certain times of the year, we pause and reflect. A memory. A moment. A milestone. Often, a photo is all that we have, a cherished keepsake. Songs have been written about these times. Photographers live through them and for them. Michael Leonhard of Michael Leonhard Photography in Old Wethersfield is one such artist. “Photography has been a part of me my entire life,” is how his personal photo album unfolds. “My mother passed away wh