Southington ranked as one of 20 safest cities in CT
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER The Town of Southington was ranked the 20th safest city in Connecticut in the online safety resource, SafeWise’s annual Safest Cities report, and town officials say the...
View ArticleAlta celebrates top students
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Southington Alta at the Pyne Center celebrated 15 graduating seniors and handed out many awards and scholarships at their annual banquet on May 24, hosted by Bread for...
View ArticleCollege signing: Hubert commits to Merrimack College
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Taylor Hubert inked her name on an NCAA Letter of Intent on Wednesday, May 2 in the high school’s library to continue her soccer career at Merrimack College in North...
View ArticleBurying the evidence
“Principals for the Day” Nate Cofrancesco and Connor Whitehead, both eighth graders at DePaolo Middle School, worked with assistant principal Chris Palmieri to bury the time capsule on May 29 that was...
View ArticleHead of the class: SHS Class of 2018 announces valedictorian, salutatorian,...
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Three diverse, inspiring and undoubtedly hard-working Southington High School seniors are celebrating their achievements of being named as top of their class: Lydia Yu...
View ArticleCouncil approves referendums for open space, SHS roof
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Town Councilors voted to approve two referendum questions to appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballots for residents of Southington. Both votes were unanimous. The...
View ArticleMain Street Community Foundation hosts annual scholarship reception
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR Susan Sadecki apologized to the crowd for going out of order at Main Street Community Foundation’s scholarship reception, but it was for a very important reason. With the...
View ArticleFormer teacher honored at Kennedy
On Tuesday, June 5, students and teachers joined with town officials and family members to honor former Kennedy Middle School teacher Joe Cippolini with the unveiling of a memorial statue in the...
View ArticleCyberKnights honored at Town Council meeting
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER The Southington High School robotics team, FIRST Team 195 CyberKnights, placed third out of 3,600 teams worldwide in the FIRST Robotics world championship. The team also...
View ArticleUNICO celebrates Southington High School’s top 25 and Italian honor society
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Southington High School’s top 25 graduating students, and six National Italian Honor Society inductees, were recognized and celebrated amongst school administration and...
View ArticleClass of 2018 is ready to take on the world
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER A packed stadium of family and friends at Southington High School gathered under the hot sun at the high school turf field to celebrate 531 graduating seniors. On Thursday,...
View ArticleSouthington High School officials announce the Class of 2018
Southington school officials announced the list of 531 graduating students from Southington High School’s Class of 2018 (Names marked with a + are high honors and names marked with a * are honors):...
View ArticleSuperintendent names top teacher, top paraprofessional
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Who’s your favorite teacher? Ask 100 students, and you’ll probably get 100 different answers, but when Southington school officials asked themselves the same question this...
View ArticleBoard of Ed honors student representatives
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Board of Education members and school officials said goodbye to two of their senior student representatives. One week before graduation, BOE members kicked off the...
View ArticleSouthington loses 25 employees to retirement this school year
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER While Southington High School sent off more than 500 graduating seniors last week, the entire Southington Public School district will be saying goodbye to a number of...
View ArticleSouthington student graduates as Mercy’s valedictorian
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Jennifer Magnoli is well-known by Southington students, faculty, and town officials. As a 15-year-old, she bested every Southington High School student with her speech...
View ArticlePhoto gallery: Observations at graduation
On Thursday, June 21, school and town officials celebrated the Southington High School Class of 2018 during a commencement ceremony on the high school turf field. SHS graduated 531 members of the...
View ArticleGraduation Station: The Class of 2018
This week, we celebrate the Class of 2018 with our annual graduation edition, and the hardest part was trying to stuff all of the graduation and school news into just one newspaper. Of course, that’s...
View ArticleCommentary: How many assets do you have?
The Southington STEPS Coalition is our community’s substance abuse prevention coalition. One of the ways we make prevention a priority is through youth asset development. According to our recent 2018...
View ArticleBuilding a better birdhouse
By SHERIDAN CYR STAFF WRITER Eight brand new, hand-built bluebird bird houses have been installed around town by Southington High School students in the Southington Regional Agriculture Science and...
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