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In Many Ways, Cain Contributes to Sustainable Living in Guilford
Published April 07, 2021 08:30 a.m.When Terri Cain volunteered to co-found and manage Guilford Community Garden HUB (GCGHUB), one of her hopes was to help inspire others in the community to embrace some sustainable practices.
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Otis Captures Images to Share at JavaHut’s Unique Wall Gallery
Published March 31, 2021 08:30 a.m.When you’ve visited dozens of national parks and many more state and local gems—and photographed them all—figuring out how to represent the lot in six pictures might sound like an impossible task.
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Attorney Jennifer Sills Yoxall Hopes to Help Operators Navigate Drone Law
Published March 24, 2021 08:30 a.m.As an attorney and an instrument-rated small airplane pilot, Guilford resident Jenifer Sills Yoxall has been charting new territory as one of the few local attorneys familiar with drone laws, and hopes this story will help recreational and commercial drone flyers navigate current and evolving regulations and other important aspects tied to drone operation.
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Price Sparks Support for Guilford Community Fund
Published March 17, 2021 08:30 a.m.For several months each year, non-profit Guilford Community Fund’s (GCF) familiar saltbox house resumes its Town Green address on the corner of Whitfield and Boston streets, reminding all Guilford neighbors it’s time to support GCF’s annual appeal. For more than 60 years, the appeal and all GCF efforts have been powered by volunteers like GCF President Adrian Price.
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Two Names, Prolific Talent: Guilford’s Julie Harris
Published March 03, 2021 08:30 a.m.Have you ever met a true storyteller? That person who can transport you to stand next to her and witness the very thing she’s describing, in spoken word or writing?
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Jeremy Taylor: Making Sure The Music Plays On
Published Feb. 24, 2021 08:30 a.m.The COVID-19 pandemic has presented particular challenges for teaching music in schools, but music instruction has continued, thanks to the seriousness with which its teachers have taken the health risks.
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Daniel Spielman: Prized Possessions
Published Feb. 17, 2021 08:30 a.m.Daniel Spielman has just done something that he is getting increasingly good at: He has won another prestigious prize.
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Kapadia Invites Guilford to Buzz In at GFFE’s Virtual Trivia Bee
Published Feb. 10, 2021 08:30 a.m.Veena Kapadia is helping to build the buzz about Guilford Fund for Education (GFFE) Virtual Trivia Bee, coming to phones and screens across town Sunday, March 7 at 4 p.m.
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Marna Borgstrom: Heading Yale New Haven Health
Published Feb. 03, 2021 08:30 a.m.Marna Borgstrom, the chief executive officer of Yale New Haven Hospital and of Yale New Haven Health, remembers the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic in this country.
Guilford Courier
Living the American Dream, With Help from SAE
Published Jan. 27, 2021 08:30 a.m.It took five years, a lot of work and determination, and some very valuable help from free programs of Shoreline Adult Education (SAE), but Antonio Villanueva has now achieved his dream of learning to speak English, becoming an American citizen, and voting, for the very first time, in the November 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Guilford Courier
Kearns Gives New GHS Grizzlies Mascot a Creative Assist
Published Jan. 20, 2021 08:30 a.m.When it comes to navigating the needs of creating and branding Guilford High School's (GHS) new Grizzlies mascot, and developing a plan so school-based sales of official sports merchandise will channel back to GHS to offset costs for new uniforms and customizing a gym floor graphic, perhaps there's no better person for the job than Noemi Zelanski Kearns.
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Heads Up: Schwartz’s Hedgehog Beanies Help the Homeless
Published Jan. 13, 2021 08:30 a.m.In the heat of the summer, Cooper Schwartz was sweating the details on launching his socially conscious company, Hedgehog Beanies.
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Eder Shares Shoreline Arts Trail ‘20 Virtual Open Studios
Published Dec. 23, 2020 08:30 a.m.With enthusiastic assistance from artist Eileen Eder, Shoreline Arts Trail (SAT) ‘20 Virtual Open Studios is currently at the fingertips of art lovers as an online gallery sharing unique works to view and purchase now through Thursday, Dec. 31 at shorelineartstrail.com.
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Stephanie Quarato is Making the Grade and More
Published Dec. 16, 2020 08:30 a.m.Guilford resident Stephanie Quarato wasn’t a big fan of math class when she was a middle school student. In fact, it was one she struggled with.
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In Good Hands: VanDerMaelen’s Skill Helps GKS Preserve the Past
Published Dec. 09, 2020 08:30 a.m.If you scour the planes and angles of a restored historic window, woodwork detail, or other antique aspect of a building where master craftsman Steven VanDerMaelen has been at work, perhaps the highest compliment to pay is noting how the restoration dovetails so neatly with the original, it’s like nothing’s been done at all.
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NMCC Pastor Heather Arcovitch Finds Community Connections While Dancing for a Cause for Raise the Roof
Published Dec. 02, 2020 08:30 a.m.When Heather Arcovitch and her partner Barb McDaniel Black were nominated to participate in the Gala of The Stars: Dancing for a Cause, she was excited for many reasons, including having an opportunity to expand on the ballroom dance class she had taken years ago in college, having a fun hobby to enjoy with her partner during COVID, meeting new people as the couple had recently moved back to the shoreline, and raising money for a local non-profit that the church where she has been a minister has supported since its inceptions.
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The Time is Right for SAA’s Future VOICES
Published Nov. 25, 2020 08:30 a.m.With the copious gallery space of the Internet, Shoreline Arts Alliance [SAA] is working to draw artists from across the spectrum, and all levels of ability, to enter pieces inspired by today’s topical themes—from COVID to social activism—into Future VOICES.
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Karen Miller: Knowing Her Values and Living Them
Published Nov. 18, 2020 08:30 a.m.Growing up, Karen Miller lived in a multifamily house with her cousins.
Guilford Courier
It’s in the Bag: Creative Support for GAC’s Soup for Good TO GO
Published Nov. 11, 2020 08:30 a.m.“It’s a beloved event that’s reinvented for this year, and we hope that its equally beloved this way,” says Amy Peters of Guilford Art Center’s (GAC) Soup for Good TO GO, set for Sunday, Dec. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. at GAC.
The Sound
A Year of Firsts for SAIL LAST
Published Nov. 04, 2020 08:30 a.m.You could say 2020 has been a year of firsts for member-supported, non-profit SAIL LAST. With its first boat, a donated Henderson 30, SAIL LAST capped a summer’s worth of keelboat racing with Branford’s Around the Buoys with the wind in their sails and high expectations for the future.
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Slattery Has Enjoyed Sharing Strong Support for Guilford
Published Oct. 28, 2020 08:30 a.m.“I was talking with Tammy DeFrancesco, and she said they needed someone strong to pick up the food at the Connecticut Food Bank. I said, ‘I have a strong back, so I’ll be happy to do it,’” says Marta Slattery. “And that’s how I first got involved with Guilford Interfaith.”
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Baltay Uncovers 'A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker: Recipes, Stories & Saucy Suggestions'
Published Oct. 14, 2020 08:30 a.m.'When you mention the word ‘pressure cooker,’ people really turn off. But if you talk about in a saucy way, they get a kick out of it,' says Virginia 'Ginny'Baltay.
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Inspiration in a Pandemic: Fitzpatrick Pens ‘All the World’s a Stage: A Guilford Love Story’
Published Oct. 07, 2020 08:30 a.m.Inspired in a pandemic and supported by Guilford Performing Arts Festival (GPAF), Guilford author/actress Julie Fitzpatrick’s spoken word piece All the World’s a Stage: A Guilford Love Story is taking shape right now and will premiere at the next festival, scheduled for September 2021.
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Brasher-Cunningham Shares Hope with ‘The Color of Together’
Published Sep. 30, 2020 08:30 a.m.“I was two years late on my deadline for my book submission. Sometimes you miss a moment, and sometimes, you land in one you didn’t know you were preparing for.”
Guilford Courier
A Growing Effort to Support Pollinator Pathways
Published Sep. 23, 2020 08:30 a.m.This Guilford resident spent part of the summer nurturing and growing a native, sustainable, and all-organic pollinator pathway garden on the grounds where she works.
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During a ‘New Normal,’ Mordarski Helps CDR Volunteers Make a Difference
Published Sep. 16, 2020 08:30 a.m.At a time when programming and in-person volunteering looks quite different at many non-profits, Marie Mordarski has taken on the role of volunteer/program coordinator for non-profit Community Dining Room (CDR).
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From the Heart: Johnson Grateful for 20 Years Overseeing Guilford’s Public Health
Published Sep. 09, 2020 08:30 a.m.He’s shepherded Guilford’s public health through the rise of rabies, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, Triple E, H1N1, and even bioterrorism emergency preparedness and training.
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Hughes Helps Tech Meet Tradition with Virtual Guilford Fair
Published Sep. 02, 2020 08:30 a.m.Lisa Hughes hopes to hit a technical homerun for Guilford Agricultural Society and the community with the Virtual Guilford Fair, coming to Facebook (@guilfordagsociety) Friday, Sept. 18 to Sunday, Sept. 20.
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A Millennial Minister: Rev. Jake Miles Joseph
Published Aug. 26, 2020 08:30 a.m.Luckily for Guilford First Congregational Church, when the pandemic closed the sanctuary doors, there was a built-in millennial minister to help open quite a few digital windows—Reverend Jake Miles Joseph.
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Amy Cornell: Discovering More Through Science
Published Aug. 19, 2020 08:30 a.m.The long lines for COVID-19 testing may soon be a thing of the past. So will the anxious wait times for results.