In early celebration of its 80th anniversary, Tweed New Haven Regional Airport is hosting an amateur photo contest looking for the best examples of summer travel memories.

Visit CelebrateTweed.com for details on how to enter.

Entries will be posted to an album on Tweed's Facebook page. Facebook users who "like" Tweed's Facebook page are then able to vote for their favorite photos.

The entrant with the most "like" votes will win $100 in dining certificates to Antonio's Restaurant in East Haven.

Photo submissions will be accepted until 11:59 p.m., July 31. Voting on the Facebook page will take place from Aug. 1 - 7.

Tweed New Haven Airport was officially dedicated as the New Haven Municipal Airport on August 29, 1931. This year the airport will celebrate its 80th anniversary. In 1998 AFCO AvPORTS was hired to manage the airport on behalf of the Airport Authority. Currently US Airways is the current commercial carrier.

MILFORD--Archbishop Mansell will bless the new Mabel Saloomey Center, a four-room addition to Christ the Redeemer Church in Milford, on Sunday, July 24 after the 10:30 a.m. Mass.

The long-awaited addition was made possible by its namesake, Mabel Saloomey, a founding member of the parish, who left $450,000 in her will. The addition will facilitate religious education classes for students. The Archdiocesan Catholic Biblical School will also hold classes at the center.

“She (Saloomey) was very clear that she wanted the money to go to an educational facility,” said Fr. Gerard G. Masters, temporary administrator of Christ the Redeemer. “We are so happy to be able to respect her wishes in such a grand way.”

According to Masters, Saloomey, as well as being a philathopist, was a lover of art. Some of her still life paintings of flowers adorn the rectory and sacristy.

Prior to the center being built, religious education classes were held in the Church Hall where the lack of space was certainly an issue.

In addition to Saloomey’s bequest, additional funding needed to complete construction was raised through a capital campaign.

“The parishioners have responded with incredible generosity,” said Masters. The capital campaign will continue through 2012.

Masters, who said the addition has taken three years to complete, has one regret and that is that Fr. Cyriac Maliekal, pastor of Church the Redeemer, won’t be present on Sunday for the blessing, because he is on a medical leave.

SHAKESPEARE TROUPE RETURNS TO STRATFORD LIBRARY

Hudson Shakespeare Company Performs "Henry V" on July 23

            While area residents continue to wait patiently for the reopening of the American Shakespeare Theatre, the Stratford Library is offering the best of the Bard all summer long. 

The popular Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey will perform the second of its scheduled three productions this year at the library. The month's offering is Shakespeare's historic drama, "Henry V" on Saturday, July 23 at 2 pm.  The performance, co-sponsored by the Square One Theatre Company, is free and open to the public.

Written in 1559, "Henry V" has been reinterpreted and deconstructed in each generation to suit the feel of its time. Hudson Shakespeare takes the approach to concentrate on the man at the center of it all - Henry V, and the personal struggle of living up to satisfy the needs of his country, his father's legacy, his peers, his soldiers and, most of all, to himself.  The play opens shortly after the death of the former king who, himself, had taken the crown in a fierce rebellion. Henry is now faced with the question of waging war on France to claim lands that belong to his family. In a tense opening gambit, the inexperienced king fends off influential clergy, nobles who want him dead, family who think he's not up to task and the French who think he's an ineffectual boy.

 "Henry V" will be performed outdoors in the Stratford Library Amphitheatre on Saturday, July 23 at 2 pm.  Patrons should bring a lawn chair or blanket to spread prior to the 2 pm show time.  In the event of rain or extreme heat, performances will take place in the library's air-conditioned Lovell Room.

            For further information, call the Stratford Library Public Relations and Programming Office at 203.385.4162 or visit: http://www.stratfordlibrary.org/.

 

Editor's note: All information in this post was contributed. It is unedited here.

In the photo: Henry (Jimmy Pravaselis) wrestles with his duty and himself on the eve of battle in the Hudson Shakespeare production of "Henry V" at the Stratford Library on July 23.

John W. Barile, Principal of Joseph A. Foran High School, is pleased to announce that 211 graduates out of a class of 253 will be continuing their education. A total of 146 students will enroll in four-year colleges and 55 students will enroll in two year colleges. Six students will enter technical or trade schools. Four students will enter the military.

Those entering four-year colleges are:

Academy of Art University: Samantha Galin and Steven Hegedus

Albertus Magnus College: Chrystal Dickey and Taylor Jagoe

Bennington College: Natalie Osborne

Bentley University: Rosanne Gildea

Boston University: Rick Garcia and Rebecca Giden

Bucknell University: William Ritz

Central Connecticut State University: Brian Casey, Praveen Dadlani, Wade Hyatt, Joseph Impellizeri, Callie Joseph, Zachary Kresen, Marcos Orozco and Matthew Salomone

Champlain College: Allison Emple

Connecticut College: Daniel Evanich


Dean College: Kayleen Cybulski


Eastern Connecticut State University: Christian Adams, Joshua Bartosiewicz, Bethany Niebanck and Keith Sunthorn

Emmanuel College: Sandra Baker

Georgia Perimeter College: Kristen Carpenter

Ithaca College: Camden Torello-Weber

Johnson & Wales University: Christopher Diep and Melanie Gonsalves

Keene State College: Andrew DeLuke, Matthew Perani and Victoria Wunder

Liberty University: Paul Huebner

Manhattanville College: Kendal Thomas

Mitchell College: Kaitlin Magalnick

Mount Ida College: Maura Kelleher

Newbury College: Lawrence Noel

Northeastern University: Cristina LaPenna and Christopher Rudnick

Pace University: Jessica Fryer

Paier College of Art: Rebecca Greenberg

Parsons The New School for Design: Kira Sirois

Pennsylvania State University: Taylor Collins, Katharine Gunzenhauser, Robert Millspaugh and Daniel Tylutki

Providence College: Nicholas Willey

Quinnipiac University: Gregory Coutros, Lauran Harriman, Jennifer Paules and Madison Sparago

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Robert Fohrenbach

Rhode Island School of Design: Max Coleman

Roanoke College: Molly Taylor

Roger Williams University: Kyle Winters and Steven Politio

Rutgers: Jorrell Figueroa

Sacred Heart University: MaryKate Cullen and Danielle Mestres

Southern Connecticut State University: Shannon Barna, Nicholas Bittar, Brandon Bogan, Christopher Caruso, Daniel Gallup, Jonathan Grigas, Ryan Hannon, Rachel Harry, Allison Kiely, Steven Krozer, Lorraine LaRiviere, Meghan Mazzola, Rebecca Pejinsky, Michael Samatoski, Mora Seiden, Fatima Shahabadi, Robert Thompson and Eric Urbanowicz

Southern New Hampshire University: Kayla Waller

Springfield College: Rachel Booth, Michael Buonaiuto, Michael Deptulski, Mackenzie Stowell and Megan Stowell

Temple University: Patricia Snider

The George Washington University: Christopher Hanna and Charles Taylor

University of Arkansas: Nicholas MacAllister

University of the Arts: Emily Alderman and Mikhail King

University of Bridgeport: Andrea DiPucchio

University of Connecticut: Kieryn De Yoe, Ryan Dennehy, Katherine Elmer, Kelly Esianor, Sage Esposito, Justin Fugal, Michael Gemignani, Michele Glowacki, Taylor Harkness, Alyssa Kemp, Connor Kennedy, Lucas Kot-Zaniewski, Rodger McDonald, Jeannie Merant, Tyler Mills, Youmna Nasr, Brian Neeley, Allison Page, Roshni Patel, Rachael Polansky, Nicholas Sostilio, Ashley Springsteen, Kevin Springsteen, Kelly Velez and Michael Wilk

University of Hartford: Aaron Schwabacher

University of Maryland, College Park: Katherine Sylvester

University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Dale Aliberti, Michael Costello, Corinne Geoffrion and Matthew Ventricelli

University of New Hampshire: Jessica Kaczynski

University of New Haven: Eric Auscavitch, Marla Kratzer, Brianna Russo and Jessica Stern

University of Rhode Island: Nicole Agria, Christina Immediato, Bryce Kuryla and Katharine Saranich

University of Scranton: Victoria Lakic

University of South Florida, Tampa: John Hanson

Villanova University: Matthew Haselkamp

Virginia Wesleyan College: Adam Staneski

Wagner College: Gabrielle Attolino

Washington State University: Emily Kruger

Wentworth Institute of Technology: Craig Simses

Western Connecticut State University: Laura Byrne, Amanda Iantosca and Leanne Kotton

Western New England College: Cassidy Demayo, Stanley Olsson and Tucker Schumitz

Wilkes University: Dayna Finch

Wingate University: Lindsay Moon

Those students entering two-year colleges include:



Community College of Rhode Island: Edwin Michaud



Gateway Community College: Zachary Black, Dakota Brewer, Matthew Bugaj, Kevin Cugini, April Davoli, Sarah Garofalo, Nicole Gossett, Jessica Grabarz, Tyreek Grant, Sawyer Lehning, Georgia Mills, Ashley Moomau, Sarah Moyher, Seny Riccardi, Alexis Rockwell, Ashley Sabre, John Schade, Addie Schofield, Anthony Simmons, Peter Sirico, Christopher Sweeney, Andrew Toon, Lindsay Voytek and Andrea Wynne



Housatonic Community College: Jenna Barrett, Cara Cook, Jake Finelli, Brittney Garth, Chelsea Garth, Douglas Gaudiosi, Ashley Gordon, Melissa Hart, Lindsay Kirkman, Taylor Leonard, Kenneth Nash, Gabrielle Nolan, Martin Pankosky, Brooke Richard, Alyssa Rinaldi, Kelcy Roberts, Natalie Rodrigues, Ashley Rosario, Julian Sandoval, Michaell Savvidis, Maria Vasilopoulos, Dylan Watts and Lea Zahariades



Middlesex Community College: Rebecca Raucci



Norwalk Community College: Alexandra Bauer, Cali Lydiksen, William Borges, James Ruffin, Ryan Stevenson and Sandra Theoharatos.



St. Vincent’s College: Chelsea Billings





Those students attending technical/trade schools or entering the military:



Lincoln Technical College: Hayden Gilmore



New England Culinary Institute: Austin Simard



United States Army: Pierre Briel



United States Coast Guard: Alec Rossetti



United States Marine Corps: Timothy Duhamel and Derek Laaser

MILFORD -- Ms. Janet Garagliano, Principal of Jonathan Law High School, announced that 175 graduates in a class of 188 students will be continuing their education. A total of 125 students will be enrolling in four-year college programs with an additional 46 entering two-year schools. Four students will be entering other post-secondary education options, including schools of business, post-graduate and other vocational, apprenticeship, and technical programs. Five students will begin serving in the military.

Those entering four-year colleges in Connecticut are:

Albertus Magnus College: Mark Benway, Alexa Echeverri, Chelsea Krug, Paris O’Banner, Meghan Williams

Central Connecticut State University: Trevor DeEll, Alexandria Drysten, Aaron Gambardella, Ashley Garnett, Leticia Gonzalez, Amanda Keator, Jack Marchese, Lindsay Mazzeo, Lauren McCarthy, Katherine Muratore, Thomas Novia, Kenneth Patrick, Alexander Unger

Eastern Connecticut State University: Andrew Bonetti, Ellen Giordano, Heather Hudak, Logan Roddy

Fairfield University: Mariam Boutros, Caitlin Stapleton

Paier College of Art: James Cottrell

Quinnipiac University: Jaclyn Davis, David Griffin, Jessika Zabala

Southern Connecticut State University: William Doggett, Emily Garay, Chelsea Green, Raya Karzoun, Tabitha Krouch, Hieu Nguyen, Karalyn Piselli, Taylor Rotella, Maria Thibodeau, Abdul Yousif

University of Bridgeport: SeEun Hwang, Nicole Lamparelli, Nicole Myer

University of Connecticut: Meaghan Abbott, Emily Bak, Andrew Bostic, Sokhouth Chay, Anthony Ciacci, Alyssa Davanzo, Andrew Fowler, Jiries Hanania, Jamie Kaminski, Jamie Paragua, Matthew Saymon, Jennifer Simko, Andrew Ward

University of Hartford: Rachael Buchanan, Michael Ferraro, Haley Hoagland, Max Nowicki, III

University of New Haven: Dylan McAloon, Shaye Staurovsky, Nicholas Vicino

Western Connecticut State University: Robert Cole, Ryan Falaguerra, David Hripak, Christina Kinsella, Shannon Redmond, Matthew Szygiel

Students also attending four-year colleges are:

Arcadia University: Casey McMahon

Assumption College: Amanda Chavez

Bay Path College: Sarah Cilbrith, Amanda Dearborn

Benedict College: Camisha Johnson

Boston University: Daniel Gregorio

Champlain College: Chas Elterman

Dean College: Chris Laporte

Dominican College of Blauvelt: Marissa Bacon

Hofstra University: Everett Smith

Johnson & Wales University: Alexis LaGase, Corey Santos, Brandon Yap, Charles Gonzales

Keene State College: Lyndsay Bull, Somer Matar

Lebanon Valley College: Jacqueline Paton

Lesley University: Victoria Siddall

Manhattanville College: Christopher Bockiaro, Patrick Cornelio

Marist College: Chandler Dugas

Marymount University: Samantha Heery, Amanda Trcka

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences: Marisa Creatura

Mount St. Mary College: Kaitlyn Marshall
New York University: Raymond Arnold
Newbury College: Kevin Fitzpatrick
Pennsylvania State University: Elizabeth Bradford, James Maccone
Pennsylvania College of Technology: Stephon Davis
Pratt Institute: Luke Lynch
Providence College: Marilyn Rideout
Roger Williams University: Samuel Grace, James Marchetti
Rollins College: Stephanie Storch
Salve Regina University: Joshua Patterson, Nicholas Pinto
Savannah College of Art & Design: Connor Addario
Siena College: Lucas Favazza
Simmons College: Brittany Redfield
Springfield College: Nicholas Toto
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College: Daniel Iovino-Ortiz
St. John’s University: Lizsandra Pena
Stevenson University: Dana Tartaglia
Temple University: Robert Lockwood
University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Kourtney Kruysman, Jesse Viscardi
University of Maine: Kevin McFadden
University of New Hampshire: Galina Kinsella
University of Oklahoma: Matthew Walker
University of Rhode Island: Nicole Rivera
University of South Carolina: Courtney Murray
University of Tampa: Kara Kopazna, Alexis Kressu
West Virginia University: Andy Le
Westminster College: Megan Morris
Wheaton College: Leigh Hunt
Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Theodore Kostopoulos
York College of Pennsylvania: Emily Chiarelli


Those students attending two-year colleges are as follows:



Full Sail Real World Education: John DiBella

Gateway Community College: Amanda Burrows, Maryah Relyea, Ryne Tompsen

Housatonic Community College: Susan Ayala, Tylor Baker, James Barbetti, Kerena Bennett, Emily Bump, John Caramonica, Christa Cerreta, Olivia Delprete, Jennifer Johnson, Krysta Kubik, Alexandra Lenihan, Sara Levesque, Alexis Lipski, Kyle Marsette, Stephanie Mateo, Jessica Nantel, Susan Navarro, Nicole O’Donnell, Samantha Orfino, Alex Perry, Kayla Randolph, Haley Rawson, Robert Savran, Marina Senft, Ralph Simpson, Delaney Smith, Jason Supple, Madeline Thornberg, Andressa Vidal, Austin Wheaton

Naugatuck Valley Community College: Carly Ericson, Alexandra German, Morgan Williams, Meghan Zampedri

Norwalk Community College: Jessica Davies, Michelle Johnson, Michael Shaheen

St. Vincent’s College: Ava Reinholz



Those students attending technical/trade schools or entering the military:



Brio Academy: Agatha Carneiro

Apprenticeship: Jake Viscount

Technical School: Logan Betso, Christopher Domeracki

Military: Kyle Bowser, Alexandra Butler, William Doggett, Joshua McNary, Hieu Nguyen

Hostess plans to swim Long Island Sound and the English Channel

WOODBRIDGE — Swimmer Ann Louise Onton will hold a benefit yard party from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at her home, 10 Hunter’s Ridge.

Onton is going to swim solo across Long Island Sound. She is also going to swim across the English Channel Aug. 20-26.
For more information about tickets, e-mail ontonalr69@sbcglobal.net or call 203-389-4760.
To donate to Swim Across the Sound, go to www.swimacrossthesound.org or mail to St. Vincent’s Foundation, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport 06606.
Onton’s swims will be in memory of Dorothy Donnelly, who died of cancer in 2000.

Donnelly was a former Olympic swimmer and a pioneer of masters swimming.

Stay tuned to www.nhregister.com for a feature story about Onton.

The concert is free and open to the public.

The Stratford Library with the Friends of Square One Theatre will present the Mixed Notes Quartet, the popular A Capella singing foursome at the Library at 2 p.m. July 17. 

"The quartet offers a lively and nostalgic program of popular music for all ages.  The group also encourages a good time and audience participation as such oldies-but-goodies like "Sincerely", "My Guy", "Happy Together", "Ain't Misbehaving" and "Sandman" are performed with boundless enthusiasm and a great sense of fun."

 It is made possible through the generosity of Stratford Library staffer Ann Stockman.  The Friends of Square One Theatre will offer light refreshments following the concert.  For further information, call the Library at 203.385.416 or visit: www.stratfordlibrary.org.

  Pictured, l to r:  Judy Lang, Edite Weddle, Kathy Mahar and Patti Lazernoich

Editor's note: All information in this post was contributed.

Donations are welcome

MILFORD — Milford Youth and Family Services, the Salvation Army Milford Service Unit, and several area churches are working to make sure all students have the necessary school supplies for September.

The goal is to provide backpacks filled with school supplies to children whose families struggle to afford essential back-to-school items. New backpacks, notebooks, pens, pencils, markers, glue sticks, and three-ring binders are among the items being collected. Donations may be dropped off from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday until Aug. 5 at the Department of Human Services at 150 Gulf St.

For more information, call Christie Roche, program coordinator, at 203-783-3253.

The Orange Volunteer Firemen’s Carnival will be held Aug. 4 through Aug. 7 at the Orange Fairgrounds on Orange Center Road.
Help is again gratefully accepted and needed in the main food tent, organizers said.

Those interested in giving of time for a few hours are especially needed on Aug. 6, beginning at 11 a.m. for the day shift, or the evening time, beginning at 4 p.m.

Help Aug. 4 and 5, beginning at 4:30 p.m. and on Aug. 7, beginning at noon. If your company would like to volunteer together, as a group that would be great and very much appreciated, organizers said in a release.

Coldwell Banker-Orange volunteers on Thursday night and Weichert Realtors Orange comes in on Friday night.

To volunteer, call or e-mail Denise Mirto at 203-795-1080 or denise.mirto@gmail.com.

For the fifth consecutive year, the United Way of Milford is pleased to announce United Way Month at ShopRite, a collaborative effort with the local grocery store to raise awareness of and support for the work the United Way does within the Milford community. Gary Johnson, president of the United Way of Milford, would like to especially thank Stonemar Properties, owner of the Milford Plaza Center, and Harry Garafalo, owner of ShopRite in Milford, for their continued support as the United Way looks to realize its one million dollar goal in 2011.

Beginning Saturday, July 2, and continuing through the end of the month, United Way volunteers will be outside ShopRite selling hot dogs and soda every Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm. Donations can also be made at the register in $1 and $3 increments. Two baskets of Energizer products, generously donated by Schick, will be raffled off, as well as United Way shirts. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to the United Way to further its mission of strengthening families, nurturing children, and meeting critical needs within the community.

The 2010 United Way Month at ShopRite was the most successful to date, raising $10,000 to benefit the 21 partner agencies and 30 programs that fall under the community-based organization’s umbrella. Volunteers from these groups will also be on hand to share their support of the United Way’s work in the community. Says Garafalo, “The United Way of Milford and their partner agencies continue to provide the city with essential services improving the quality of life for many residents. Our annual fundraiser heightens the community awareness of all the programs that encompass the United Way while providing resources to help them to achieve their goals.”