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EDUCATION
Waterford High senior loves dirt bikes but opts for nursing career
Editor’s note: The Day publishes an annual series of stories spotlighting outstanding seniors graduating from the region’s 16 public and private high schools. Waterford ― About two years ago, resident Rich Smith got a nervous call from friend Bill Cole, who had been out in the woods riding a dirt bike with Smith’s son ― Waterford High School senior Zach Smith.
For NFA senior, one class made him want to become a special ed teacher
Editor’s note: The Day publishes an annual series of stories spotlighting outstanding seniors graduating from the region’s 16 public and private high schools. Norwich ― The biggest lesson Norwich Free Academy senior Connor Doyle learned in high school was an age-old cliché. Listen to your mother.
Norwich city, school officials recommend $95.68M school budget
Norwich ― A joint committee of school board and City Council members will recommend the 2024-25 school budget be set at $95.68 million, $2.4 million higher than the city manager recommended. The recommendation is based on cuts made by school administrators since the Board of Education adopted an initial...
East Lyme boys’ lacrosse locks in for a win in state quarterfinal
East Lyme — Gary Wight could sense his East Lyme High School boys’ lacrosse team possessed the right mindset prior to Saturday’s CIAC Class M quarterfinal game. “I knew today they were locked in,” said Wight, East Lyme’s veteran coach. “In the locker room, they were quiet and thinking about what was going on. When we were warming up, again, they were locked into what they were doing.”
Norwich Tech no match for No. 4 North Branford in Class S defeat
Norwich Tech softball coach Pam Pinch admitted the Warriors might have been a little “intimidated and nervous” while watching North Branford warmup prior to Thursday’s Class S second round contest. The Thunderbirds looked every bit like a team that has won nine straight Shoreline Conference championships and...
Woodland dunks one in to beat Waterford baseball in the ninth
Beacon Falls — The season’s final game — the loss in extra innings — rarely fails to haunt with all the wouldas, couldas and shouldas such finality brings. Oh, and Waterford High had plenty to contemplate on its 90-minute ride home Saturday from Beacon Falls, a hamlet on the Route 8 corridor between Seymour and Naugatuck.
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