New Canaan Advertiser
Senior Men to host Advertiser editor
May 7, 2008

John Kovach, editor of the New Canaan Advertiser, will address the Senior Men’s Club at 10 a.m. Friday, May 9, at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 Oenoke Ridge.

In past visits, according to a press release from the Senior Men, Mr. Kovach has provided “thoughtful insight and perspective on New Canaan’s happenings and issues” in a “highly interactive manner.”

Mr. Kovach has been editor of the Advertiser — which will mark its 100th year of publication on July 25 — since September of 1997.

He also serves the New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps as an emergency medical technician, and is a member of the town’s Community Emergency Response Team.

The New Canaan Advertiser is part of Hersam Acorn Newspapers which, following a recent acquisition, runs two printing facilities and publishes 19 papers and five shoppers in Connecticut, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts.

Mr. Kovach joined Hersam Publishing in 1993, as the first assistant editor of the newly launched Darien Times. Prior to that, he was a sports writer at The Hour in Norwalk from 1988-93, and sports editor of the Darien News-Review from 1987-88.

A 1987 graduate of the University of Bridgeport, he won that year’s Society of Professional Journalists/SDX Journalism Student of the Year Award.

While a sophomore at the University of Bridgeport, he was editor of the Scribe, the student newspaper. During his junior and senior years, he served as sports director of WPKN Radio and was a play-by-play announcer for UB men’s and women’s basketball. In 1988, he made up half of the team honored as the Associated Press “College and Non-Commercial Sports Announcers of the Year.”

A native of Mt. Olive Township, N.J., he is a 1983 graduate of Mt. Olive High School.

After spending eight years as a football coach for Fairfield Pop Warner, he joined the junior varsity staff at Fairfield Prep prior to the 2001 Season.

The Senior Men’s Club is open to new members. Applications are available at the New Canaan YMCA, 564 South Ave. The club is open to men 55 years of age and older who reside or own property in New Canaan. YMCA membership is not required.

Upcoming activities include: Golf May 12 and 28; Skyblazers flying at Lapham May 12; Amateur Chefs cooking at Lapham May 15; a Trailblazer hike May 22, and the 4F lunch May 23.

Paddle tennis, tennis, racquetball and bridge are also scheduled throughout the week.

More information can be found online at smcnc.org.

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