Over 100 people gathered at Eagles Landing State Park on Sunday, October 18, 2020—proclaimed Melissa Jean Schlag Day by Haddam town government—to celebrate Melissa’s extraordinary life and irreplaceable friendship.
News/Media Coverage of Her Passing
- The Hartford Courant “Remembering Melissa Schlag, a public servant who understood paradox” by Barth Keck
- The Hartford Courant, Melissa Schlag, former Haddam first selectwoman who knelt during Pledge of Allegiance, dies at 46
- Middletown Press “Late Haddam politician Melissa Schlag recalled as ‘rare, rare gem'” by Cassandra Day
- WFSB Eyewitness News 3
- In Remembrance: Our Colleague and Friend Save the Sound CT
- In Memoriam Melissa Jean Schlag by friend Tanja Moriarty, given at Melissa’s Celebration of Life at Eagles Landing State Park , also published in Haddam Bulletin, December 2020 issue.
- Friends of Kuiaski Preserve
Posthumus Awards & Letters
Melissa Jean Schlag Day dedicated by Town of Haddam on October 18, 2020
Environmental Champion 2020 named by Rivers Alliance of Connecticut
Executive Director Alicea Charamut presented this award to Melissa Schlag at the River Alliance’s annual meeting with the following introduction “Advocate, journalist, editor, designer, public servant, valued colleague in conservation and the environment, and friend. We are deeply sad that this award must be given posthumously, but we never expected to prematurely lose those we value so highly. Melissa was an essential member of our environmental advocacy community. Her talent for communicating often very complex ideas and issues assisted in the advancement of too many policies to name. She was also a dedicated public servant and principal leader.”
Friends of Melissa Schlag 