Cassandra Day spent 13 years at Middletown's daily newspaper, writing features and profiles of people and places in Middlesex County. 

She began her journalism career while attending Central Connecticut State University, when she joined the Central Recorder, and subsequently filled in for every position that needed help. In 1993, she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English with a minor in journalism.

After college and a brief stint reporting at the New Britain Herald, she moved to Central Connecticut and became the Middletown Press features editor in 1997. There, she wrote an award-winning mothering column, won several Society of Professional Journalists awards for news and features and most notably helped coordinate coverage of Wesleyan University's loss of student Johanna Justin-Jinich, eventually moving to senior editor at the Press. 

Cassandra is a longtime resident and homeowner in Middletown, where she lives with her husband, Erik Hesselberg, and their two boys, Benjamin and Tristan. In November 2010, she became editor of Haddam-East Haddam Patch and took over as editor of Middletown Patch in March of this year.

Beliefs

At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. This disclosure is not a license to inject beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. The intent is the opposite: We hope the knowledge that our beliefs are on the record will cause us to be ever mindful to write, report and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you ever see evidence that we failed in this mission, please let us know.

Politics 
Liberal

Religion

Raised Catholic, now more spiritual than religious.

Local Hot-Button Issues

North End revitalization, dispute over the mayor's pick for police chief. The quality of education, development; Middletown does a pretty good job of juggling competing demands for more businesses, homes, services and open space. But big challenges lie ahead, including finding new uses for the former Aetna site in Westfield and the riverfront.