Volume 11, Number 56
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Angela’s Kitchen expands By Bailey Wright Record-Journal staff
CHESHIRE – More than two years and three new sauces later, Angela’s Kitchen Sauce is still expanding throughout the state while keeping a focus on quality ingredients and homemade recipes. Husband and wife Angela and Keith Massimino, of Cheshire, started the company in July of 2018 with an Angela’s Kitchen meat sauce. With a slow and steady mindset, the couple has added three new sauces and now have jars in 56 stores across the state with hopes to expand over the Connecticut border.
The couple added a marinara sauce that December, a tomato basil sauce July of this year, and a vodka sauce just last month. From the start, the goal has been to share exactly what Angela Massimino makes in her own kitchen. “My grandmother, my mother and myself, how we do it in our own kitchens is how we do it in our own jars,” Angela Massimino said.
The recipes for most of the sauces has been passed down over four generations, including to Angela’s own kids. Angela’s Kitchen Sauce ended up unexpectedly growing during the pandemic as many stores ran out of product during the first couple months when shoppers were stocking their pantries. “When COVID started back in (the) end of March, April,
Angela’s Kitchen creator Angela Massimino, of Cheshire, holds a jar of Angela’s Kitchen vodka sauce.
See Sauce, A2
Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
November boasts plenty to do in town By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
What’s happening around town when we turn the calendar page? Plenty! Sunday, Nov. 1 is National Authors Day. Cheshire has a quite a few authors. (What would one call a group of writers? A scribble?) Cheshire Public Library estimates there are about 19 known writers in all from our town.
The list includes the late Ev Cassagneres, a pilot who wrote on air travel and aviation history. Cheshire’s Tom Smith is the author of several books, including “The Crescent City Lynchings,” a non-fiction work taken from 1890s New Orleans. The colorful Ron Gagliardi is perhaps best known for the promotional historical release “Cheshire,” an Arcadia Books publication. Prolific writer and literary agent John
White makes his home in Cheshire. White has written numerous books on a variety of topics: UFOs, patriotism, higher consciousness, and his own past military experience in “The Gulf of Tonkin Events – Fifty Years Later.” Poet Patricia Mottola is vying for the title of Cheshire’s poet laureate. Her collections include “Under the Red Dress.” See November, A4
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Tutoring helps students adjust to learning online By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal
With the pandemic causing schools to operate in unique ways, students may need additional academic support from the school system or outside tutoring services. Cheshire High School Principal Mary Gadd said the school provides support by certified teachers. “We have skills and discipline support for writing, reading, math, including after hours online help, science, business, world language and career and technical education lab time,” she said. Cheshire High also offers organizational and study skills support by certified teachers in all departments. Study halls are designed to help students complete their work. Peer tutoring also is an option and staff now offers office hours for the first time. “New this year, each Wednesday teachers hold office hours and provide one-toone support for students,” Gadd said. Enzo Zocco, principal of Sheehan High School in Wallingford, said that because of changes to instruction he has seen a decrease in the need for tutorial support. See Tutoring, A8
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