Students reach top with Wallingford indoor climb
Nineteen freshman from Naugatuck High School tackled Volcano Wall at Prime Climb in Wallingford as part of a teaming program to build self confidence and cooperation. Teachers say the activity integrates students socially and academically and teaches them to break their old molds.
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Naugatuck High School
Volcano Wall
Wallingford
Social Studies
Kurt Stampfel
Jesse Paine
Prime Climb
Prospect approves 3.4 million budget at town meeting
Prospect voters unanimously approved the 1997 98 municipal budget of 3.4 million at a 25 minute meeting led by Mayor Robert Chatfield. The council tabbed setting a new mill rate and noted a 2.5 percent grand list increase boosting tax revenue by 166 358.
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Prospect
Robert Chatfield
Long River Middle School
Chatfield
Neth seeks burgess role after years on finance board
Board of Finance Chairman Bob Neth, 39, says he is ready to move from finance to elected office after serving on the board since 1989 and leading it for five years. He plans to run for burgess Monday and address Naugatuck school space by forming a building committee to pursue grants and approve space use.
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Board of Finance
Bob Neth
Neth
Finance Board
Naugatuck High School tightens towing policy to curb parking chaos
Rocky Mastropietro says enforcing the new policy has reduced illegally parked cars with no tows so far. Students without assigned spots are urged to take the bus as the district debates expanding the lot by about 60 spaces amid high demand and parental complaints lingered.
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Rocky Mastropietro
Naugatuck High School
Mastropietro
Brian Bedard
Bedard
Hank Pruchnicki
Kelly Draus
Court Declares Cleveland Voucher Program Unconstitutional
A judge’s ruling in the 10th Ohio District Court of Appeals found Ohio’s Cleveland voucher program unconstitutional. About 2,000 kindergartners through third graders faced loss of private school vouchers, with 80 percent of 53 participating schools religious. The decision argues the program violates separation of church and state, prompting continued appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court by both sides.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Ohio District Court of Appeals
Ron Marec
Ohio Federation of Teachers
George Voinovich
Carole Shields
People For the American Way
U.S. Supreme Court
Cleveland City
John C. Young
Stamford teen convicted in brutal campus beating case
Stamford Connecticut Anthony Bellocchio, 18, was found guilty on assault kidnapping and two conspiracy counts for a July 1995 beating in a school parking lot that left Mathew Kosbob brain damaged and in a coma. Kosbob, now 17, faces five to seven years to live per his doctor.
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Stamford, Conn
Stamford
Superior Court
Anthony Bellocchio
Mathew Kosbob
Kosbob
William Kosbob
Mathew
Maurine
Kosbob, Bellocchio
Bellocchio
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