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By Editor at May 17, 2013 | 9:00 am |
Last week I said how the Yankees faired in the next 7 days would show who they are. At 25-10 and having gone 7-3 in their last 10 games, I would say the Yankees were in very good shape. The Bombers are in first place by 2 games over the Baltimore Orioles. And now the starters are beginning to come back. Curtis Granderson was back on Tuesday night going 0-3. It is more...
Honors Pour In for Ex-NBHS Softball Star Newberg
By Ken Lipshez | Sports Correspondent at May 17, 2013 | 8:45 am |
Kelsey Newberg was an exceptional athlete at New Britain High School. With that experience as a platform, she has scaled academic and athletic heights at Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y., and is about to begin her professional nursing career in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Albany Medical Center. Her softball exploits helped Sage finish third in the Skyline more...
Editor’s Note 5/17/2013
By Editor at May 17, 2013 | 8:30 am |
Nothing makes me giggle more than when someone calls me a right wing Republican. I’ve heard some members of our present Mayor’s administration say that about me in an attempt to deflect my comments. I have been a Democrat my entire life, but recently realized I cannot call myself a staunch Democrat. I think I am part of both of the two major parties. I am more...
Jacob and Sophia Top Popular Baby Names List
By Rob Rodriguez, Public Affairs Specialist| New Britain Social Security Administration at May 17, 2013 | 8:15 am |
Jacob and Sophia are repeat champions as America’s most popular baby names for 2012. This is the fourteenth year in a row Jacob tops the list for boys and the second year for Sophia. There is a new couple in the top 10 this year--Elizabeth and Liam replace Chloe and Daniel. Elizabeth has been here before, but this is the first time Liam breaks into the top 10. Perhaps more...
NBHS Grad Finds Good Fit at UConn
By Kathryn M. Roy | New Britain School District at May 17, 2013 | 8:00 am |
Ariana Molokwu, another accomplished member of New Britain High School’s class of 2010, has become a productive, successful student at the University of Connecticut. Just as she did at NBHS, Molokwu has a jam-packed schedule full of classes, club meetings and activities. Molokwu is another “New Britain Success Story,” continuing to rack up accomplishments in more...
Group Wants to Buy Aquinas
By Robin Vinci at May 16, 2013 | 8:30 pm |
The City may not be able to find a buyer for the St. Thomas Aquinas building, but one group says it is interested in purchasing it. Savenewbritain.com is hoping it will eventually find funds to buy the building and make it a community center. It would use the rectory as senior housing. Many members of the group are Aquinas alumni and are not happy seeing the more...
Not a Meteorite! CCSU Professors Say it’s Still Worth Checking
By Robin Vinci at May 16, 2013 | 8:15 pm |
In the last month two pieces of meteorite have shown up in Wolcott and Waterbury, Connecticut. When Beverly Tinder woke up Sunday morning and found a strange rock in her New Britain driveway, she couldn’t help but wonder what it was and how it got there. The one inch piece of rock turned out to be slag, but Central Connecticut State University professors say you more...
NB YMCA Plans City Wide Block Party
By David Huck | Correspondent at May 16, 2013 | 8:00 pm |
Add Saturday, June 1st’s High Street Block Party to the city’s ever-growing list of annual community events. The free event will feature food, music, showcases by local groups, a petting zoo, pony rides, kids activities, and even a scavenger hunt in which participants can win an electronic tablet. There will also be various vendors set up along the street selling more...
Pathways/Senderos Helping Guide Struggling Students
By David Huck | Correspondent at May 11, 2013 | 8:00 am |
Twenty years ago, a small converted garage on Arch Street opened up to help that area’s adolescents, who are among the city’s most poverty-stricken, from falling into the multi-generational cycle of teen pregnancy. Sixty boys and girls entered through those doors that year. Two decades later, the reach of the organization, the Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy more...
Area Schools Joined Main Street Singers for Spring Concert
By Editor at May 10, 2013 | 10:15 am |
The Main Street Singers, a community of children’s voices in grades two through eight, presented their Spring Concert on Saturday, May 4. The Singers were joined by young people from six area schools to perform a variety of folk, popular, and classical songs and spirituals, from an aria by G. F. Handel to “Fix You” by Coldplay. It was presented at The Main Street more...
