Monthly Archives: November 2009
Turkey Day Stat Chat: Feast of Numbers
-139 Point differential for Seymour in its nine games this season; the Cats have been outscored 302-163, tied with Crosby for worst margin in...
DeBiase: ‘I don’t care, as long as we win’
If it were up to his dad, Jack DeBiase never would have played football at Woodland. Mark DeBiase attended Holy Cross and wanted Jack...
Mike Kennedy will not quit
Greyhounds senior captain Mike Kennedy is not the type of person who looks for sympathy or pity about his plight, a strong characteristic not...
Woodland alumni bring swagger and moxie
Imagine a coaching staff like this: Joe Montana helping out with quarterbacks and offensive skill positions, Walter Payton assisting the running backs and defensive...
Watch out for Naugy in 2011
Success on the field of athletic competition is 60 percent physical and 40 percent mental. To prove that theory, sports is filled with stories...
Pool Hawks cap school-best season
MIDDLETOWN — The Woodland girls’ swimming and diving squad put the lid on its most successful season in school history Saturday at the Class...
Naugy swimmers lay foundation at Class L
MIDDLETOWN — It had been a long, hard season of rebuilding for the Naugatuck girls’ swim team under head coach Jim McKee, but the...
BOE meeting canceled; rally goes on
NAUGATUCK — The meeting was canceled, but the rally went on. Hours before the Board of Education was scheduled to convene Monday, in an attempt to reconcile its more than $2 million budget shortfall, the school system’s governing body called off the gathering. But that didn’t stop the more than 100 people who planned a demonstration outside Tuttle House from picketing and chanting anyway.
A new community group that calls itself Our Kids Come First organized the rally in protest of a last-resort cost-savings plan proposed last week by Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Tindall-Gibson. The sweeping measure, which would save an estimated $2.26 million, includes cuts to K-8 music, K-6 physical education, K-8 art and freshman sports. Both Tindall-Gibson and members of the board have said they aim to avoid these programming rollbacks.
Embattled firm studying borough schools
NAUGATUCK — Four months after the borough hired the Hartford-based firm JCJ Architecture to perform a facilities utilization study of the school district, the...
Facebook a catalyst for BOE unrest
NAUGATUCK — Social media sites like Facebook have proven to be not only a way for old friends to reconnect or current ones to...