Opera at Trinity on Main

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Rehearses

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra rehearses for their Friday night concert, "Freedom Calls" at the Trinity on Main performance center. (5/12/09)

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra rehearses for their Friday night concert, "Freedom Calls" at the Trinity on Main performance center. (5/12/09)

First cello Kathy Schiano performs with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, during their rehearsal for the Friday night concert, "Freedom Calls" at the Trinity on Main performance center. (5/12/09)

Bass Laurentiu Rotaru sings with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, during the rehearsal for their Friday night concert, "Freedom Calls" at the Trinity on Main performance center. (5/12/09)

Concert master Brunilda Myftaraj and first violin Aaron Packard, perform during the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra's rehearsal for their Friday night concert, "Freedom Calls" at the Trinity on Main performance center. (5/12/09)

Conductor Adrian Sylveen Mackiewicz, directs singer Laurentiu Rotaru and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, during the rehearsal for their Friday night concert, "Freedom Calls" at the Trinity on Main performance center. (5/12/09)

Fish dead of natural causes at city park

Fish kill for Love

Stanley Quarter Pond, at Stanley Quarter Park, in New Britain. (5/11/09)

By JAMES CRAVEN
Staff Writer – The Herald

NEW BRITAIN — The loop around Stanley Quarter Park Pond is popular with joggers, walkers and skateboarders but the stench of hundreds of dead sunfish had many cutting short their outdoor activities Monday.(more)

Maria Arroya of New Britain, holds her nose in reaction to the smell emanating from the Stanley Quarter Pond, as state Rep. Tim O'Brien, D-24th district, makes a call to his office, and the DEP, in order to find out the cause of the fish kill in the pond. (5/11/09)

A dead fish in Stanley Quarter Pond, at Stanley Quarter Park, in New Britain. (5/11/09)

State Rep. Tim O'Brien, D-24th district, makes a call to his office, and the DEP, in order to find out the cause of the fish kill in the pond. (5/11/09)

Dead fish in Stanley Quarter Pond, at Stanley Quarter Park, in New Britain. (5/11/09)

Dead fish in Stanley Quarter Pond, at Stanley Quarter Park, in New Britain. (5/11/09)

Happy Mother’s Day

Various Moms on their day.

Carnations for moms at the Mother's Day breakfast at the Elk's Club in Bristol. (5/10/09)

Pam Baclaski of Berlin, with her four-year-old daughter Bailey, and two-year-old son Jack, visit the New Britain Museum of American Art on Mother's Day. (5/10/09)

Left to right, Marissa Haynes, of Berlin, with her aunt Liliane Desrochers of Bristol, grandmother Helen Adamus, of New Britain, and mother Maryann Haynes, of Berlin, tour the New Britain Museum of American Art, where on Mother's Day, moms got in for free. (5/10/09)

Flowers for sale on Mother's Day at Zarrella Farms in Plainville. (5/10/09)

Kristen Bouchard of Bristol with her four-year-old daughter Sophia, pick out flowers for their garden, on Mother's Day at Zarrella Farms in Plainville. (5/10/09)

Symphony celebrates 60

Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, rehearses at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

By JENNIFER ABEL
Staff writer

NEW BRITAIN — This Saturday, the New Britain Symphony Orchestra is hosting its final concert of the 2008-09 season, and also celebrating its 60th anniversary performing music for greater New Britain. But Maurice Peress, who took over as the symphony’s new music director after the untimely death of former conductor Jesse Levine last November, is focusing on the future rather than the past.(more)  

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, rehearses at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, rehearses at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

First violin Michelle Abraham plays with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, during the symphony's rehearsal at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, rehearses at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

Bruce Bellingham, left, and Christopher Laghans, both on double bass's, with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, during the symphony's rehearsal at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, rehearses at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

Second violin Lynne MacDonald plays with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Maurice Peress, as it rehearses at CCSU's Welte Hall. (5/5/09)

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can’t keep O’Connor out of race

Farmington Coach Fights

Chris O'Connor coaching a Unified Sports track practice in Farmington. (4/29/09)

 

By KEN LIPSHEZ
Staff Writer – The Herald

FARMINGTON — Tell Chris O’Connor she can’t do something, then give her some time, stand back and watch the sparks fly.

O’Connor, a lifelong champion of female leadership through sports, taught in the Farmington school system for 35 years, reaping accolades that will fill a den wall. Now she’s coaching Unified Sports — soccer, basketball and track — at Farmington High, from which she graduated in 1968 as a top female athlete when those two words were seldom grouped.

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But in  January, O’Connor heard those words that would make most mortals stop, shiver and weep. She had an abnormality on a mammogram. Given her outlook on life, she thought positive thoughts, but that ugly word — cancer — had invaded her world.

It neither stopped her nor affected her mission. (more)

Coach Chris O'Connor leads the Farmington Unified Sports track team during their warm up, before practice at Farmington High School. (4/29/09)

Chris O'Connor coaching a Unified Sports track practice in Farmington. (4/29/09)

Chris O'Connor coaching a Unified Sports track practice in Farmington. (4/29/09)

 

Coach Chris O'Connor, positions athelete Alison Hung to receive the batton from partner Mary Hogan, during a Unified Sports track practice at Farmington High School. (4/29/09)

Coach Chris O'Connor congratulates Unified Sports athelete Jeremy Hellman after track practice at Farmington High School. (4/29/09)

(4/29/09)