CT family grows award-winning chocolate company from basement to statewide. It’s still hand stirred.

John and Helen Fascia started selling chocolate out of the basement in their Town Plot neighborhood home 60 years ago.

All these years later the couple is still going strong in Waterbury, and Fascia’s Chocolates and the sweet treats taste the same now as they did in 1964.

The founders and self-taught chocolate gurus, now in their 80’s, are a strong presence at 44 Chase River Road and run the 19,000-square-foot location along with eldest daughter, Louise, the COO, and son-in-law Carmen...