Go, Greased Lightnin’
“Go, Greased Lightnin.’ You’re burnin’ up the quarter mile.” Last weekend, curtains opened on the Southington High School drama club’s production of “Grease.” The audience rocked to the 1950s love...
View ArticleCyberKnights are off and running
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR It’s not how you start that counts. It’s how you finish. Southington High School’s CyberKnights struggled in the opening round of their first competition at SUNY Polytechnic...
View ArticleCoach of the year: CIAC names Evan Tuttle as boys swimming coach of the year
By KEVIN ROBERTS STAFF WRITER Evan Tuttle means a lot to the Southington boys swimming and diving program. Just ask those that are around him. The soft-spoken coach has become synonymous with...
View ArticleSouthington fire poster winners announced
The Southington Fire Department announced the local fourth and fifth grade winners of the Connecticut fire prevention poster contest: fourth grader Megan Kasica from Kelley Elementary School and fifth...
View ArticleCurtains open on ‘Oliver’ this weekend
Spring is the time for theater programs in Southington. The DePaolo and Kennedy Middle School Drama Club is gearing up for this year’s performances. Students from both schools are currently rehearsing...
View ArticleBlue Knights host Unified Sports tournament: Event marks the 13th and final...
By KEVIN ROBERTS STAFF WRITER There were plenty of shots, smiles and sportsmanship on display inside the Walt Lozoski Gymnasium on March 19. High school and middle school basketball teams suited up for...
View ArticleBack stage at ‘Oliver’: All set for opening night
By SHERIDAN ROY STAFF WRITER Lights, camera, action! The DePaolo and Kennedy Middle School drama club is ready for the stage crew’s signal to cue the actors and actresses in for the Broadway musical,...
View ArticleCyberKnights capture another banner
By SHERIDAN ROY STAFF WRITER Southington High School FIRST Robotics Team 195 CyberKnights cheered as another blue banner heads to SHS. The CyberKnights started competing in the New England District two...
View ArticleSouth End School rallies around injured student
By SHERIDAN ROY STAFF WRITER One Southington family’s lives were drastically changed on Sept. 23, 2018 when a motor vehicle accident caused their nine year old daughter, Lucia Perez, to suffer a spinal...
View ArticleWall of Honor to recognize SHS grads and WWII casualties
Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our readers for reaching out to Bob Brown after reading this week’s article about the Wall of Honor. Because of your input, Brown was able to positively identify the...
View ArticleA long walk to water
Thalberg Elementary School fifth graders turned a reading assignment into action. After reading, “A Long Walk to Water,” by Linda Sue Park, the student gave up lunch and recess time to raise funds to...
View ArticleDePaolo students kick butts
Kids in Connecticut united against tobacco use on March 20 as they join thousands of young people nationwide to mark “Kick Butts Day,” an annual day of youth activism sponsored by the campaign for...
View ArticleAll the world’s a stage…
Curtains opened on the middle school drama club’s production of “Oliver” with three performances last week, above. The show continues this weekend with 7 p.m. performances at Kennedy Middle School in...
View ArticleCyberKnights win again
The FIRST Robotics Team 195 Southington CyberKnights finished their New England qualifying competitions with another win in Hartford last weekend, bringing home a third blue banner for the season. Team...
View ArticleInvention convention showcases local inventors
Becky Nunn, right, judges Angelina Fazio’s “Frosty Paws” invention at the annual invention convention. Fazio, a fifth grader at Plantsville Elementary School, said that she wanted to invent something...
View ArticleAlta beats the drum for Griffin Center kids
By SHERIDAN ROY STAFF WRITER Alta at the Pyne Center, Southington’s alternative education high school, enjoyed some music making with their next-door neighbors, the preschoolers from Margaret C....
View ArticleGrad party seeks volunteers, donations
High school graduation may still be a couple months away, but the volunteer “All Knight Grad Party” committee is already preparing the annual overnight party for graduates the night of the big day....
View ArticleWall of Honor inducts class of 2019
By SHERIDAN ROY STAFF WRITER The Wall of Honor induction ceremony was held Tuesday, April 9 at Southington High School, inducting 11 SHS graduates onto the wall. The event was made special with the...
View ArticleCyberKnight win streak ends at regional meet
FIRST Robotics Team 195, the Southington CyberKnights competed at the New England FIRST Robotics Championship last weekend and finished as semi-finalists, ending their four year winning streak. They...
View ArticleResidents support fire department hirings at budget hearing
By SHERIDAN ROY STAFF WRITER Members of the public came out in strong support of the Southington Fire Department’s budget request to add two full time firefighters during the Town Council budget public...
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