There isn’t much NFLPA certified agent and Salem native Sean Stellato didn’t accomplish during his athletic career. Stellato quarterbacked the Salem High football team to a Super Bowl appearance in 1994, helped lead the Witches boys basketball team to a state championship in 1995, earned a Division I scholarship to Marist and played professionally...

Join 3 Cares and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center at the 18th Annual Concorso Ferrari and Friends event on June 23rd and June 24th from 10:00 AM-3:00 PM on LaSalle Road in West Hartford. This event celebrates all makes and models of Italian automobiles—from vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiat and Lamborghinis to the supercars of Ferrari, Pagani and Mase...

The Mediterranean Diet Roundtable is an inspirational and networking conference, where scientists and Food Industry leaders discuss dietary trends in America. An elite gathering, the MDR has attracted hundreds of professionals from all over the U.S. and the Mediterranean Countries. Ready to roll its fourth edition: regarded as one of the most exclu...

A new documentary about New Haven’s Little Italy is part fond recollections, part Ken Burns, and fully committed to the stories of everyday neighborhood residents. That’s the pitch that local filmmaker and reporter Steve Hamm made on a recent episode of WNHH’s “Deep Focus” for his new movie, The Village: Life in New Haven’s Little Italy. The movie...

For local artist Anna Badini, life is about constantly seeking, though not for anything in particular. Instead, Badini said it’s the journey, searching and seeing where life takes her, that she finds most fulfilling. “I search as if searching is living, is life,” she said. “And, I am attracted to anything that is meaningful, that has an emotional o...

Members of local police and fire departments honored the memory of late fire Chief Victor Lomascolo on Friday with a funeral procession through downtown. The body of Lomascolo rode on a fire truck past landmarks that represented different stages of his 65-year career as a firefighter. The procession rode past the Middletown Fire Department’s Centra...

This week, Jackson, Connor, and Dylan reviewed Gelato & Cioccolato which is a new gelato parlor located in Cos Cob. The parlor opened on April 7th and has already amassed many customers. Although part owner Lucio Lozza’s new business is young, it is not his first rodeo with regard to Italian gelato. He and his business partner Alessandro Uccelli ow...

Mike Crisafi leaned in, took the measure of the distance down the 34-by-six foot bocce court,  and then let his red ball roll toward the smaller yellow “bullet” ball, or pallino. If he and his three teammates rolled theirs closer to the pallino than the closest ball of the opposition, they each got a point in the frame. Change sides of the court, r...

He was, by all accounts, the epitome of the passionate public servant, a tireless leader and peacemaker who piloted Norwalk safely through the Civil Rights Movement, an era of racial violence nearly everywhere but here. The youngest mayor in the city’s history at 33 and its first Italian-American one, Democrat Frank Zullo served three terms from 19...

Frank N. Zullo, a lifelong Norwalker, local attorney and three-term Democratic mayor who steered the city through the turbulent 1960s and later ran for governor, has died. He was 85. Zullo died peacefully at Norwalk Hospital on Saturday. He is survived by his wife Berenice (Fischler) Zullo, their daughter, Lesley Anne, and several nieces and nephew...