AJLESQ-Anthony J. LaBella, Esq.

10/14/2026

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

10/05/2026

"We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

09/23/2026

"A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by."

— Bruce Springsteen

06/08/2026

"An idea is salvation by imagination."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

05/15/2026

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

03/10/2026

Atty. William C. “Bill” Leary, 87, of Windsor Locks, CT, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, March 6, 2026, at home.

Those of us fortunate enough to have known and called Bill a friend, will mourn his loss and know that he helped many along the way to find a new life and a new way of living. He was a power of example to all that met him. He was instrumental in starting the Lawyer's Assistance Program here in Connecticut and he leaves the world a better place. He will be missed.

Family and friends are invited for visitation on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Windsor Locks Funeral Home, 441 Spring St., Windsor Locks, CT. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary Church, 42 Spring St., Windsor Locks, CT.

PLEASE MEET DIRECTLY AT CHURCH. Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to assist in tuition for students may be made to The Fund for Providence College, Emergency Student Support (formerly known as the Angel Fund), Providence College, Division of Institutional Advancement, Harkins Hall 102, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918 (https://forever-a-friar.providence.edu/giving/ways-to-give/) or to St. Mary's Church, Mary Gate of Heaven Parish, 42 Spring St., Windsor Locks, CT 06096

Leete-Stevens provided compassionate, professional, and personalized service to our family during our time of need. Furthermore Karen as well as the staff followed up with us after the funeral services concluded. Highly recommend Leete-Stevens Funeral Home during this most difficult time.

01/03/2026

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost."

- JRR Tolkien, from "The Fellowship of the Ring"

12/21/2025

"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."

- Clarence Odbody in "It's a Wonderful Life"

11/19/2025

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

09/11/2025

“When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.”
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– JEFF PARNESS