2020 Connecticut Wedding & Bridal Expo

At WTIC-TV in Hartford, she produced and hosted the popular Mommy Minute and DayTrippers segments, in addition to covering breaking news events, such as 9/11 and the Michael Skakel Trial.  She also spearheaded an Arts and Entertainment series, enabling her to interview celebrities such as Jon Bon Jovi, Kid Rock, Jewel, Jessica Simpson, Julie Andrews and Martin Short.

Often tapping into her own experiences, Sarah wrote a parenting column for the Hartford Courant. Additionally, she contributed home and travel features to Hartford Magazine.

After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Sarah began her media career at WHDH in Boston where she was an Assignment Editor, Satellite Producer, and Field Producer.

She has received a Food Allergy Hero Award, a Mental Health Media Award, and a Local Leader-Local Legend Unsung Hero Award for her dedication to important family issues. Sarah is also the proud recipient of three Emmy Awards.

Sarah enjoys contributing to local events with organizations such as March of Dimes, Hartford Hospital and the YMCA of Greater Hartford. Dancing the rhumba in a recent Donate Life Connecticut competition is one of Sarah’s proudest accomplishments.

She lives on Connecticut’s gorgeous shoreline and enjoys combing the beaches with her husband Paul, sons Sam and Ben, and rescue dog, Lucy.

You can also find Sarah snapping a picture or reading a book. But, her favorite hobbies will always be swimming, skiing or playing ping pong with the kids!

Before moving back home, Laura spent 6 years at WWLP in Springfield, MA where she was anchoring the morning news and working on the 22News I-Team. She received a host of honors for her work including the regional Murrow and AP awards. Laura was also the moderator for the station’s award-winning public affairs program, 22News inFocus.

Laura’s reporting and anchoring career started at WENY-TV News in Elmira, N.Y. in 2008. Before that, she was working behind the scenes in the control room for the CW Philly Wakeup News in Philadelphia. Laura earned her degrees in broadcast journalism and political science in Philadelphia at Temple University. Temple is also where she met her husband.

When she’s not at work, Laura keeps busy in the community. She loves to visit schools, read to children and raise money for charity. She also loves to be home, relax with family, friends, her husband and her golden retriever Benny.

An early graduate from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA and former Miss Connecticut 2016, Taglia represented her home state in the 2017 Miss America Pageant live on ABC. Immediately following her year of service, Alyssa attended the New York Film Academy’s Broadcast Journalism certificate program on a full scholarship.

Always making it her life’s top priority to give back and volunteer her time to many charitable organizations, at the young age of 12 years old, Alyssa founded, “Smiles for Seniors”, a volunteer driven program created to enrich the lives of our elderly, specifically those in long-term care facilities. Alyssa Rae Taglia serves on the board of Directors for SELF INC., is a member of “MASTA”, the Miss America State Titleholders Association, and was a goodwill ambassador for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in 2016.

When she is not at work or volunteering, she loves to spend quality time with her family and friends.

Simoni was an award-winning reporter and morning anchor for Little Rock’s KATV. While at WJCL, she established the first consumer beat in Savannah, GA. Stephanie even covered the Women’s NCAA tournament, while interning forWTOP, a Washington, D.C. radio station.

Stephanie has a degree in broadcast journalism from American University. Born and raised in Norwood, Massachusetts, she loves spending time with her family and taking advantage of the scenic New England coast!

Furey is a graduate of Villanova University and also did a Graduate studies in Meteorology at Western Connecticut State University. He then moved to become a Graduate Assistant/Teacher and eventually Assistant Director of the Western Connecticut State University Weather Center in Danbury under Dr. Mel Goldstein.

Furey then moved on to becoming the Director of The New England Weather Service in Hartford doing daily weather forecasting to such clients as Northeast Utilities.

As for TV, Furey started at NEWS12 Connecticut while doing numerous radio stations like KC101, WAVZ and WICC. He then moved on to Hartford.

Furey has four amazing daughters, a wonderful wife and his only boy JAKE, an 85 pound Golden/Husky Mix.

Furey played competitive baseball all the way to age 50!! While he’s a big Yankee fan, his wife loves the Red Sox!

As for Furey’s hobby, it’s weather! One of his favorite weather stories is when Dr. Mel put him in charge of setting-up their big-brand new weather data recording station on the roof above the weather office at WCSU. A few weeks later Hurricane Gloria showed up. They were all excited when the anemometer registered an 83 mph wind gust and then the weather station flew past the window they were looking out of and smashed on the ground. Furey had forgotten to secure it to the roof! Ever see Dr. Mel mad??

Another one of Furey’s favorite stories is when he forecasted 1 inch of snow and we got 1 foot. The next day on-air a bucket of snow landed on his head while he was doing the weather live on TV.

Furey also loves going out to schools across Connecticut and talking about weather and other stuff.

Furey says it was probably his grandparents who inspired his love for weather. They came from Newfoundland, Canada and would sleep with a window open during the winter. They talked about icebergs that went by their house in St John’s, Newfoundland. They even had stories about times in winter when the snow was so deep and drifted so the only way out of their house was from a second floor window.

When it comes to favorites, Furey doesn’t know his favorite restaurant in New Haven yet but he is willing to go with anyone who wants to go and show him your favorites…he’ll pay!

He does know that his best dish is firestorm nachos.

While Furey’s favorite musician is Billy Joel, his best concert was at the Yale Bowl in 1978 for the Eagles/Little River Band and Heart. His second favorite concert was Chicago at the Garden State Music Fair in New Jersey.

When it comes to travel, Newfoundland, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Alaska and Hawaii are next on his list of must places to visit. Over the last four years he has been to all lower 48 states with the wife and kids!

Lastly, Furey says he’s a pretty good baseball player and for his size, he can run/sprint pretty fast.