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Out with the gasoline,in with the beer at Lakeside Deli

By Stephanie WilcoxTown Times

The State of Connecticutrequires too many new regu-lations to make the sale ofgasoline worthwhile, ac-cording to PrakashkumarPatel, the tenant of LakesideDeli. So gas pumps havebeen removed from the Mid-dlefield convenience store,located at the intersection ofLake Road and BaileyvilleRoad, also known as Route147, and beer is now on theshelves.

“I didn’t sell too muchgas, I can’t afford it,” Patelsaid. “My pump is old andthe tank is expiring in about

2014. The state requires toomany new regulations by2013. You have to provideyour own insurance. It’s along process.”

But if he could have it his

way, Patel, who has operatedthe store for 17 years, said hewould rather sell the gaso-line.

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Kaitlyn Cummings and Becky Sabetta from theUnited Churches of Durham make cookies.

Submitted by Jennifer Altschuler

Junior scouts of Troop 62199 brought holiday giftbags and handmade cards to Sugarloaf residents.

Submitted by Dawn Mendoza

Churchof theEpiphany’sSundaySchoolchildrensing carolsat TwinMaples inDurham.

Submitted byJaclyn E. DuBois-Zolnik

More holiday photos on pages 9-12

Community responds toNewtown tragedy

By Stephanie WilcoxTown Times

It will be remembered asone of those “where wereyou” scenarios — when newscame Dec. 14 that there was amass shooting in a Connecti-

cut elementary school thattook the lives of 20 young stu-dents and six educators.

Durham First SelectmanLaura Francis had spent themorning prior with New-town’s First Selectman at aboard meeting. See Newtown, page 27

Photo by Stephanie Wilcox

Hundreds turned out in the rain Dec. 16 for a vigil in Durham.

“All day Friday, I had thevision of her in my head,”Francis said. “That was herlast day of innocence. Theircommunity is not that dis-similar to us. It could happen

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Wine, women and song feteMiddletown gala

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Barbara Arafeh, president of the Greater MiddletownConcert Association, and Mark Slobin, music profes-sor at Wesleyan.

By Larry KellumSpecial to the Town Times

Plenty of wine — and asmorgasbord of gourmethors d’ouvres, five women(an operatic soprano, a jazzsinger and three string musi-cians), and song (a tenor aswell) regaled the GreaterMiddletown Concert Associa-tion’s 45th anniversary galacelebration on Dec. 7, at thehistoric Wadsworth Mansion

at Long Hill. It was anevening of paying tribute toalmost a half-century of per-forming arts in the Middle-town area. In recent years,the GMCA has hosted operaproductions (from the Con-necticut Lyric Opera) and awide variety of concerts eachseason at Middletown HighSchool’s state-of-the-art Per-forming Arts Center. Christ-mas decorations throughoutthe mansion and a silent auc-

tion made for a festive andglamorous event.

The evening began withmaestro Adrian Sylveen ofthe Connecticut VirtuosiChamber Orchestra leading astring quartet and endedwith the tones of KittyKathryn and her Jazz Ensem-ble. In between, the maestroaccompanied the LyricOpera’s resident soprano Ju-rate Svedaite and tenorDaniel Juarez on Charlie Hu-bert’s baby grand piano

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CRHS athletic evaluation beginsBy Mark Dionne

Special to the Town Times

The Connecticut Inter-scholastic Athletic Confer-ence, which functions as theConnecticut high schoolequivalent of the NCAA, isdirecting a year-long evalua-tion on Coginchaug Region-al High School athletic pro-grams.

On Dec. 12, CRHS Princi-pal Andre Hauser presentedthe Board of Education withdetails of the evaluation,which consists of on-site in-spection, surveys and a self-study committee.

CIAC serves to make surestudent-athletes and coach-es have “quality experiencesthat reflect high ethical stan-dards and expectations forfairness, equity and sports-manship,” according to itsmission statement.

The evaluation is volun-tary and was pursued by ad-

ministrators and the BOE af-ter parents expressed con-cerns about CRHS athletics.Last year, the BOE heard apresentation from the youthsports reform organizationPositive Coaches Alliance butdid not enlist their services.

According to Hauser, thesurvey of student athletes isalmost complete with 175 fin-ished. Over 200 students areexpected to take the survey.CRHS parents are scheduledto get their surveys startingDec. 17. CRHS coaches willalso take surveys, all ofwhich will be evaluated byCIAC with results presentedto the BOE.

The self-study committee,chaired by Assistant Princi-pal Brian Bodner, will consistof 15-20 members, includingcoaches, teachers, parentsand student athletes. Accord-ing to Hauser’s presentation,the member list will likely in-clude parents of male and fe-

male athletes who representall seasons and sports, andparents with former, currentor future CRHS student ath-letes.

Regarding membership onthe committee, Hauser said,“We do have a pool of peoplewe believe would be good rep-resentatives...not necessarilypeople who have alwaysagreed with us. As a matter offact, we’re intentionally look-ing for a few people who areat times outspoken critics ofa particular program or sportor just of the way the schoolruns in general because weknow that they’re going tobring a perspective that wemight not bring otherwise.”

BOE member Nancy Boylevolunteered to serve on thecommittee. Durham residentMichael Doyle, who at nu-merous past BOE meetingsencouraged the board to re-evaluate the athletic pro-grams, previously volun-

teered to serve on such a com-mittee.

In May a CIAC team of cur-rent or retired high schoolprincipals and athletic direc-tors will conduct an on-sitevisit to witness the athleticfacilities in use and inter-view students, parents andcoaches. “They’re going tocheck to make sure that thethings we say we’re doing, weactually are doing,” Hausersaid.

The CIAC will report theirfindings to the district, possi-bly directly to the board at aBOE meeting.

Korn principal searchSuperintendent Sue Vic-

caro gave the BOE a timelineto replace departing Korn

School Principal Laurie Sin-der. According to Viccaro,candidates have already beenselected for interviews,which will take placethrough January.

“We’re looking for folkswho have experience,” saidViccaro, who also noted thatthe pool of applicants con-tained a combination of as-sistant and sitting principals.

The next BOE meeting willtake place Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m.at Lyman School.

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Bridge Night - Come joinin at the Durham ActivityCenter every Friday night at6:30 p.m. for a fun night ofbridge. If you are not surehow to play, Jim will teachyou. You may call Jim at(860) 346-6611 with bridgequestions. Call DurhamRecreation at (860) 343-6724with further questions.

24 Monday

Durham Senior Lunchesare canceled today.

Middlefield SeniorLunches - The MiddlefieldSenior Café is serving lunchthree times a week, on Mon-days, Wednesdays and Fri-days. Reservations are re-quired 24 hours prior, andthe monthly menu can bepicked up at the center,Town Hall or at www.mid-dlefieldct.org.

Transfer Station hours -The Durham MiddlefieldTransfer Station will be open8 a.m. to noon on Dec. 24.

26 Wednesday

Blood drive - The Ameri-can Red Cross has scheduleda blood drive for Wednesday,Dec. 26, from 11 a.m. to 4p.m., at the MiddlefieldCommunity center, 405Main St. For more informa-tion and to make an appoint-ment, call 1-800-RED-CROSS(1-800-733-2767) or visitwww.redcrossblood.org.

TOPS meeting - Take OffPounds Sensibly meetsevery Wednesday at 6 p.m.on the third floor of theDurham Town Hall. ContactNaomi Klotsko at (860) 349-9558 or Bonnie Olesen at(860) 349-9433 for more infor-mation.

No Bingo - There is noDurham Senior Bingoscheduled for Wednesday,Dec. 26.

28 Friday

Tot Time - The MOMSClub of Durham-Middle-field meets every Friday atMiddlefield CommunityCenter at 10 a.m. Babies, tod-

dlers and children are wel-come. For more informa-tion, email [email protected].

Bridge Night - Come joinin at the Durham ActivityCenter every Friday night at6:30 p.m. for a fun night ofbridge. If you are not surehow to play, Jim will teachyou. You may call Jim at(860) 346-6611 with bridgequestions. Call DurhamRecreation at (860) 343-6724with further questions.

29 Saturday

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31 Monday

Durham Senior Lunch-es – are canceled today.

Middlefield SeniorLunches - The MiddlefieldSenior Café is serving lunchthree times a week, on Mon-days, Wednesdays and Fri-days. Reservations are re-quired 24 hours prior, andtheir monthly menu can bepicked up at the center,Town Hall, or at www.mid-dlefieldct.org.**

Transfer Station hours- The Durham MiddlefieldTransfer Station will beopen 8 a.m. to noon on Dec.31.

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Entertainment was provided by a new a capella groupfrom CRHS, Unaccompanied Minors, directed by RyanDonnecker. Food was provided by Mark and Ami Sha-dle of G-Monkey and G-Zen.

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www.townofdurhamct.org for updates.)Monday, Jan. 7

Board of Selectmen, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 8

Library Board of Trustees, Library, 7 p.m.Board of Education Communications

Committee, Superintendents office, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 9

Joint Board and Commission Meeting,Town Hall, 7 p.m.

Cemetery Company, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Board of Education, John Lyman School,

7:30 p.m.Monday, Jan. 14

Board of Selectmen, Town Hall, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 17Water Commission, Town Hall, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 23Board of Education Finance Committee,

Memorial School, 5:30 p.m.Board of Education, Memorial School,

7:30 p.m.Ethics Commission, Library, 7 p.m.

MiddlefieldGovernment Calendar(Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are

held in the Community Center.)Thursday, Jan. 3

Economic Development Commission, 7p.m.

Monday, Jan. 7Board of Selectmen, 7 p.m.

Creative Arts reminderThis is a reminder to send in submissions for Town

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Durham First Selectman Laura Francis will be atCore Club & 24/7 Gym to kick-off a Zumbathonfundraiser to benefit the Newtown Memorial Fund.The 90 minute Zumba® class will honor the 26 lives loston Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in New-town.

The fundraiser will take place Sunday, Dec. 23, at10:30 a.m., at Core Club, 350 Main Street, Durham. Tick-ets can be purchased at Core Club or online at new-townzumbathon.eventbrite.ca/.

If you cannot make the event, please consider buy-ing a ticket as a donation or by making a direct dona-tion at everribbon.com. One hundred percent of pro-ceeds will benefit the Newtown Memorial Fund. Tolearn about the mission of the Newtown MemorialFund, which includes providing financial relief for fu-neral expenses, assisting in the funding to donate a me-morial and to provide an annual scholarship fund tostudents at Newtown Public Schools, visit www.new-townmemorialfund.org.

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“I would love to sell thegas, but I don’t make themoney,” he said. “I have tostay in business.”

Ninety-nine percent ofpeople who come to his storesay they want the gas, Patel

said.“The main thing is a lot of

people are unhappy,” hesaid. “They need to driveabout four miles more to get(gas).”

In the first seven to 10days of having beer on theshelves, Patel said he did notsell that much — only $60 ofthe $2,000 worth of beer.

But that could be caused

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by a few factors, he said.

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Letters to the Editor

TownOpinion8 Town TimesFriday, December 21, 2012

Letters policyThe Town Times intends to present a forum for the

lively exchange of ideas and issues. To facilitate the pub-lication of your contributions, several guidelines shouldbe followed. Letters to the editor must be signed, with aphone number included, and be no more than 300 words.The writer will be called to confirm authorship. Noanonymous letters will be printed. Contributions by anyindividual or group will not be published more frequent-ly than once a month. Every effort will be made to printall letters received. However, the selection and date ofpublication will be at the discretion of the editor. Finally,the opinions expressed by our letter writers are not nec-essarily those of this newspaper. Deadline: Monday noonfor Friday publication.

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What I hopeTo the editor:I know Dave Pieta and Bar-

ney and walk my dog, Henry,with them every evening soI’ve had considerable time tothink about the incident de-scribed in the Town Times acouple weeks ago. Barney’shad a rough go of it recentlyand Dave was visibly shakenwhen he first recounted thestory to me.

How on earth could thishave happened? Barney is12, diabetic, stands abouteight inches at the shoulderand isn’t very mobile. Bar-ney replaces actual physicali-ty with a comedic attempt atbluster and intimidation. Abarking Barney is cause for achuckle and a few easy stepsbackward. What was his as-sailant thinking?

Why would someonechoose to attack this geriatricdog with a baseball bat whenretreat would seem so easy?I’ll never know. Despite howinconceivable it seems to me,I have to allow that this gen-tleman felt threatened andacted only to defend himself.If that’s what truly hap-pened, then so be it.

But here’s what I hopedidn’t happen. That this per-

son did not take out on Bar-ney his frustration at abuseshe’d suffered at the paws ofother dogs who, in the past,troubled him when he ran.Why else carry a bat?

Alex PassavantMiddlefield

Not safeTo the editor:I have thought about the

article written by Dave Pietaregarding the horrible attackon his dog. I have no childrenand consider my dog as partof my family. So can I just askone question of the jogger —how would you feel if some-one hit one of your childrenor close family member inthe head with a bat?

I no longer feel safe as adog owner because of you.

Monica MicalizziDurham

Celebrate the holidays safelyLisa Mason

LocalWellnessCouncil

‘Tis the season to cele-brate. The Durham Middle-field Local Wellness Councilencourages all residents tocelebrate safely this season.The council asks if you areaware of the following:

-Each year nearly 10,000people die on our roadwaydue to drunk driving. Thatnumber equals 20 jumbo jetscrashing each year.

-In December, an averageof 25 people a day die indrunk driving crashes.

-1.4 million people were ar-rested for DUI in 2009.

-In Connecticut, the num-ber of drunk driving deathsdecreased from 119 in 2010 to92 in 2011.

These statistics are cour-tesy of the U.S. Departmentof Transportation’s National

Highway Traffic Safety Ad-ministration. In a Dec. 13,2012 press release, U.S. Secre-tary of Transportation RayLaHood stated, “The holidayseason can be an especiallydangerous time on our na-tion’s roadways due to drunkdrivers — that’s why law en-forcement officers will be outin full force. Our message issimple: drive sober or getpulled over.”

Whether you are attendingor hosting a party this sea-son, please consider the fol-lowing suggestions fromNHTSA and MothersAgainst Drunk Driving tomake it a safe celebration:

-Plan ahead. If you will bedrinking, do not drive. Desig-nate a sober driver orarrange another safe wayhome.

-If you are impaired, findanother way home. Use ataxi, call a sober friend orfamily member, use publictransportation or contactyour local sober ride pro-gram.

-Be responsible. If some-

one you know is drinking,do not let that person get be-hind the wheel. If you see animpaired driver on the road,contact law enforcement.Your actions may save some-one’s life, and inaction couldcost a life.

-Host a safe party for allyour guests.

The Durham MiddlefieldLocal Wellness Council in-vites any resident to attendits monthly meetings thefirst Monday of the monthat 12:30 p.m. at the RegionalSchool District 13 adminis-trative office. For more in-formation, contact BetsyDean, executive director,Durham Middlefield Youthand Family Services, at (860)349-0258 or look for it listedas the Local Wellness Coun-cil Durham Middlefield onFacebook.

For information about al-cohol and other drug abuseand addiction, contact theMiddlesex County Sub-stance Abuse at (860) 347-5959 or www.mscaac.org orthe CT Clearinghouse at(860)793-9791 or www.ctclear-inghouse.org.

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brought in especially for theoccasion. They sang excerptsfrom the CLO’s most recentproduction of Bizet’s “Car-men” that they both ap-peared in, and sang, an Act 1finale of Puccini’s “La Bo-heme.”

Barbara Arafeh, presidentof the Concert Association,and co-chairs Gerry Bennettand Marcia Wrubel helpedmake this a memorableevening.

For more information toupcoming concerts, events,and Mozart’s “Don Giovan-ni” this spring in Middle-town, call (860) 347-4887 orvisit thevirtuosi.org orct.lyricopera.org.

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From State Sen. Terry Ger-ratana representing Berlin,Farmington and New Britain

‘O little town of Bethlehem’ Nearly 130 guests walked through Middlefield Federated Church’s Nativity onFriday, Dec. 14. About 150 canned food items were donated to benefit TheAmazing Grace Food Pantry. “Many people expressed real joy in being giventhe opportunity to focus away from the news of the day, and several peoplewere moved to tears,” Marilyn Keurajian said.

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proud to announce the birth of their son, Boady RobertVillwock.

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Maternal grandparents are Debbie and Joe Pasquale,of Durham. Maternal great-grandparents are Jean andMadeline Oertel, of Wallingford, and Ann Pasquale, ofHamden. Paternal grandparents are Bruce and CathyVillwock, of Middlefield. Paternal great-grandmother isCatherine Carlson, of Rockfall.

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In reality, this was the absolute best thingthat Mr. Roberts could have done.

“I hated running the 3200m, but he en-tered me in it because he saw that couldbe my event,” said Alex. “It resulted in mebecoming the 3200m conference cham-pion for four straight years.”

What de4nitely comes to mind whenyou think Mr. Roberts is his hawaiianshirts, sandals, green sports car, salmoncolored sports coat, and his infamousfolding chair,” said alumnus and formercross country captain Emily Halligan (‘12).“But what I remember most is how he wasalways interested in how the athletes per-formed in their races. Whether they were

great runners, or at the end of the pack,Mr. Roberts constantly wanted to knowhow the runner did, how it compared totheir previous races, and how they couldimprove for the next time.”

When I asked Mr. Roberts if he wouldmiss anything speci4c in track, the an-swer came immediately.

“The kids,” he said. “They keep youyoung, I always enjoyed seeing them dotheir best. They didn’t have to be the best,they just had to try their best. One of thethings I encouraged was to not be afraidto fail.”

It is truly amazing what Coach Robertsdid for this program and what he has

What’s the 4rst thing that comes tomind when you think Coginchaug track?Maybe running? Sprinting? Devils’? Wellthe 4rst thing that may come to mind forsome is Coach Marty Roberts. That’s thetype of impact he has had on this pro-gram. There aren’t many people who putin over a quarter of a century of work intothe same program, 26 years to be exact.

The 4rst team Mr. Roberts coached atCoginchaug was the girls’ outdoor trackteam back in 1987. This was a very newenvironment for him since he came fromGlastonbury to Durham.

“I used to work with sixty to eighty kidsat Glastonbury,”said Coach Roberts.“Hereat Coginchaug I had fourteen girls and itwas tough to win at 4rst since numberscan give you quality.”

Out of all the historic moments through-out Coach Roberts career, there wasn’t aparticular championship he mentioned,but he focused on how his kids and ath-letes developed over the years and ontheir personal eMorts. Roberts capped oMhis career with 21 seperate Shoreline andState Championships in outdoor, indoor,and cross country.

“The highlight of my career was seeingkids accomplish in the classroom, on thetrack, and in life; living up to their poten-tial,” he said.

“He set the precedent for futureCoginchaug track teams by winning somany championships and being so suc-cessful,” said senior Evan Rand. “I like hisno nonsense attitude the most.”

“He was able to build a program to getkids excited about the sport,” said Mr. TedLombardo. “The 4rst step was to makethem competitive and the second was tostart winning. Marty was able to take theprogram to the next level. He had a tre-mendous record here and he inPuenceda lot of kids.”

“Coach Roberts coaching methods wereunorthodox and unlike any coach I’veever had,” said alumnus Alex Morin (‘11).“His ability to motivate was like noneother. Coach Roberts saw things in hisathletes that they themselves did not.”

Coach Roberts placed Alex in the3200m race his freshmen year despite thefact that Alex wasn’t interested in the par-ticular event. It may seem as though thiswould be a bad thing to do; put a fresh-man in a race that he would dread to run.

turned it into. The the countless hoursworking with young athletes, not onlyresulting in multiple championships, butturning these hundreds and hundreds of athletes into competitors. Coach Robertsrespected every athlete across the boardwhether they were an All State runner,or if they were not. As long as they triedtheir best, he viewed everyone equallyand that tells you the type of man he is.It is going to be tough to replace a coachlike this at Coginchaug and everyone thatknows Mr. Roberts wishes him the best ashe coached his last season ever this pastfall with the 2012 Boys’ Cross Countryteam.

Principal Mr. Andre Hauser (left) and atheltic director Mr. Ted Lombardo (right) present Coach Marty Roberts with a plaque com-memorating his 26 years at Coginchaug at the Fall Sports Banquet on November 26. Photo by Sydney Altschuler

TheDevils’ Advocate Friday, December 21, 20122

There is always a lot of hype the week ofThanksgiving. Not about turkey or dress-ings, but about shopping. But, is it toodangerous for people to risk going any-more? News stations show people settingup outside of stores, preparing for a shop-ping apocalypse.

“There were lots of people and I saved alot of money,”said senior ConnerThrall. Hebought two thermals and two sweatshirts,both buy one get one free, from Chap’s.

“I went to Kohl’s but it was more crowd-ed last year,” said junior Je1 Peracchio.“There were lots of sick people.”

Evidently, people are willing to takethat risk so that they can a1ord thegifts that loved ones want. I mean, re-ally, people can truly hurt your feelings.Between yelling and catching a cold,Black Friday shopping gets pretty brutal.

Editor-in-Chief: Kaitlin McKernanEditorial board: Kevin Onofreo and Mike McShane

Contributors and Production sta!: Lindsay Artkop, Cody Hendley, Courtney Silver, Dominique Cop-pola, Adrian Tubis, Mike McShane, Kaitlin McKernan, Jeremy Brown, Victoria Buonanni, Jordan Cowles,

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Advisors: Mr. Nate Fisher, Ms. Stephanie WilcoxThe Devils’ Advocate is the Coginchaug High School newspaper.

“Thursday night my mom and I wentto Wal-Mart 7rst and a crazy personyelled at me for no reason,” said juniorAbigail Eisner. “And then I went to Tar-get and got yelled at by another crazyperson. All I did was tap her cart on ac-cident. Then I went to K-Mart and theMeriden Mall, which was a lot of fun.”

She isn’t the only one spending an entiredayshopping.AbigailwasjoinedbyjuniorKristen Burtt on their brigade for deals .“AfterIsleptforacoupleofhours,”saidAb-

igail, “Kristen and I went to the WestfarmsMall. Once we got home, I was drained.”

“I agree with Abby,” said Kristen, “ Iwas really tired but continued to shopafter I dropped Abby o1 at home.”So, forallofyouBlueDevilsoutthere,pre-

pare for the crazy, madness that is BlackFriday 2013. We’ll see you out in the aisles.

Science teacher Mrs. Erika Anderson and her husband Mr. Bryan Anderson are thrilledto announce the arrival of Caleb Jace Anderson. He was born at 3:32 AM on Monday,November 26. He weighed in at 8 pounds 1 ounce and is 19 inches long.Photo courtesy of Mrs. Erika Anderson

In Houston, Austin, and San Antonio,Texas, schools are requiring students towear identi7cation badges with radio-frequency (RFID) chips 7xed into them.These chips are taking away a student’sright to making responsible decisions ontheir own and their ability to grow into anindependent adult.

One student attending a school wherethese badges are now required refused towear the chip because her and her fatherbelieved it was “the mark of the beast”that is referred to in the Book of Revela-tion. The school attempted to reason withher and remove the chip from her badge,but she still refused to wear it.

So what exactly is an RFID tag? It is anidenti7cation tag that has a microchipembedded into it that is programmedwith a speci7c id number for each dif-ferent tag. These ID numbers mirror therole of Social Security numbers or barcodes, the only di1erence is that theydon’t need to be seen or scanned like abarcode to be read. These chips can carrydata through air, doors, walls, backpacks,purses, and clothing. So the question is,is it worth the $261,000 needed to pilotthis policy? The schools expect to receive2 million dollars in revenues in response

to the raise in attendance.Putting RFID chips in the student ID

tags is not allowing students to grow into

mature adults. In a college university theadministration is not going to make sureyou’re at every single class on time, it’s upto the student to get to class. Isn’t highschool supposed to prepare us for thereal world? Well if you get a job, your bossisn’t going to track you down. If you’relate they’re just going to 7re you after anumber of times.

Although this may help the attendancelevels rise, the school does not have theright to set tracking devices on students.It takes away a students’privacy and is un-necessary. As students go up in grade lev-el there is more trust placed in them to dothe right thing, and by the time a studentreaches their senior year, they should beacting and be treated like adults.

For example, at Coginchaug there are“senior privileges.” These privileges in-clude being exempt from 7nal examsif a student has a class average of 90 orabove, leaving early, coming in late, andhaving free periods if students earn andmaintain good grades.

Students should have to take respon-sibility for coming to class on time. AtCoginchaug, that’s the way we do things.It’s not up to the teacher to track youdown if you’re missing an assignment ornot in class, just as it shouldn’t be up tothe school administration to track youdown if you’re not in class.

December 1 marked not only Durham’sand Middle7eld’s seventh Annual Com-munity Round up, but Mrs. Bottini’s 7rstyear running it. Incase you don’t knowwhat the Community Round Up it is ba-sicly trick or treating for the less fortu-nate. Instead of collecting candy studentsand community members go around thetowns of Durham and Middle7eld collect-ing canned food items to be given to thetwo towns and the Amazing grace foodpantry. “Students starting from as youngas 7rst grade attend” said social workerMrs. Bottini.

Over 11000 Food items, 2400 dollarsworth of gift cards were collected in thetwo communities. The gift cards will besplit between Durham and Middle7eld,and the food items between the twocommunities and The Amazing GraceFood Pantry.

This year there were around seventyteams and over 350 volunteers at thisevent. Thank you to the Durhams Wom-an’s Club for the volunteers breakfast,Home Depot for carriages, and Durhamand Middle7eld Wellness Council whoco-sponsored the event with the District,

Coginchaug junior Richard Chi preparesbox after box, 7lling them with food tobe sent to the Connecticut Food Bank.Photo by Adrian Tubis.

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Although it’s hard to believe, 2012is soon coming to an end. It has beenan eventful year both in and out ofCoginchaug, and it’s time to re�ect onthe biggest highlights of 2012.

The 2012 summer Olympics, o�ciallyknown as “Games of the XXX Olympiad,”was a huge worldwide sporting eventthis summer. The competitions were heldin London, United Kingdom, from July 25 to August 12. The United States had a to-tal of 104 medals, made up of 46 Gold, 29Silver, and 29 Bronze.

Locally, Coginchaug had a packed yearof sports, as well. The boys soccer teamhad a 6-8-2 record, and the girls soccerteam had a 9-7 record. Cross-Countryteams had successful seasons with seniorJeremy Brown, sophomore Christian Al-berico, and sophomore Kelly Halligan asthe top runners. Football ended with arecord of 12-13 and the volleyball teamwrapped up the season at 9-9.

“One of the team’s biggest strengthswas their chemistry,” said Kara Neidhart,Head Coach of the CRHS Volleyball team.“They all have a very young mindset andwere hardworking when practicing forthe games.”

In Entertainment, music has been in amajor spotlight. The third most popularalbum this year was released by a british

pop band called “One Direction.” "Up AllNight" successfully sold 899,000 copies.Lionel Richie’s album was second, with"Tuskegee." His latest CD features countrysongs with re-recordings of his greatesthits and guest appearances. Listenerspurchased 912,000 units. Lastly, Adele’s"21" was the most popular album thisyear, with 3,668,000 copies sold. “21” isthe second studio album by the Englishrecording artist, released on February 22,2011, in North America.

The movie theatres were also givenmuch attention throughout the year.According to www.moviefone.com, TheHunger Games, a science �ction moviedirected by Gary Ross was the �fth mostpopular movie. Another �lm of the samegenre called Prometheus, came in fourthplace. Moonrise Kingdom, a comedy/dra-ma directed by Wes Anderson, came inthird place. Cabin in The Woods, a thriller,came in second place. Lastly, Marvel’s TheAvengers won the title of 2012’s mostpopular movie. Actors included RobertDowney, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and ChrisHemsworth.

The movie and music polls don’t speakfor every Coginchaug student though.

“My favorite movie released this yearwas Breaking Dawn, because it had a per-fect twist ending,” said junior Rue Stroth-

ers. And when it comes to music, she’srecently been listening to “We The Kings,”because of their ‘new beats.’

“I love how they’ve been expandingtheir music for the new age.” she ex-plained.

Strothers even got the chance to meetthe band members this year, which �tperfectly with her 2012 new years resolu-tion of meeting famous people she ad-mires. She also met some of the cast onthe Deadliest Catch.

Senior Christine French has similarviews to the results. “ My favorite moviewas the Hunger Games - it was so cute.”As for music, her favorite genres are popand rap. Her top song this year was “DicePineapples” by Rick Ross.

2012 faced some crazy weather. Hur-ricane Sandy was a massive storm thatformed on October 22, and dissipated onOctober 31. Covering over 1,000 miles, itput parts of New York City under morethan 13 feet of water. Manhattan su�ered�oods that swept away cars and �oodedsubway stations. Buildings located on theJersey Shore were washed away in just afew hours.

While more than 8 million people inthe United States lost power, Durhamwas lucky enough to only lose about halfof its electricity. Regional School District

Above, junior Rue Strothers discussesher favorite movie with Devils’ Advocate.Photo by Lindsay Artkop

At left, senior Jerrod Ravid plays lead gui-tar in his worship band at youth groupLiving Proof in Middletown on Fridaynights. Photo by Kaitlin McKernan

There’s only so much you can knowabout a person from what you see atschool. Everyone has another side tothem that goes beyond the walls anddoors of Coginchaug. Jerrod Ravid is oneof these people.

Jerrod is a senior who does a lot morethan most normal teenagers. Jerrod notonly has two part time jobs, one at Pre-mier Limousines and one at DaVinci Piz-zeria in Cromwell, but he also volunteersat his church in Middletown and is a vol-unteer �re�ghter with Durham Fire De-partment. Jerrod has also been the leadguitarist in a worship band and singswith his youth group Living Proof sincehe was a sophomore and he balances allthis with school.

“He’s a strong Christian, he’s musical,talkative, and friendly,” said childhoodfriend senior Sydney Altschuler, “He’s agood participant in class, and just in gen-eral a really good friend.” Jerrod is verystrong in his faith. He is a student leaderat his youth group, leading others in wor-ship and coming to have a relationshipwith Christ.

“Being a part of everything that I am apart of has been nothing but good forme,” said Jerrod.

Not only is Jerrod known for being astrong Christian but he is also known forhis facial hair.

“He grows a pretty good beard,” saidjunior Bryan Paxton.

Jerrod has a good heart. if he seessomeone hurting or in need of a friend,he’s the �rst one by their side. I know frompersonal experience that Jerrod helpedme through quite a few times of troublein my life.

“Jerrod is funny and a really good friend,he’s very trustworthy and open aboutthings. He’s always been there for me,”said senior Nicole Godbout.

“As a freshman, Jerrod was kind andentertaining. I think he was secretly intoliterature too,” said English teacher Mrs.Michelle McClintick who had him her �rstsemester as a teacher, coming into theschool halfway through the year.

History teacher Mr. Matthew Thompsonknows Jerrod both in and outside of classbecause he was in guitar club with him.“He’s a rock and roll �re�ghter.”

“Jerrod is a sweet and thoughtful youngman who is focused on a future withGod and his abilities in serving and help-ing others,” said a close friend of Jerrod’sthat also volunteers at Living Proof, LeahAranjo, “he is also funny, considerate, andvery talented.”

There’s more to Jerrod, and everyonebeyond the halls of Coginchaug. Look-

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ing at Jerrod’s story, and who he is dem-onstrates that you are more than justa highschool student, and your talentscan be used in more ways than one. Justas Jerrod uses his talents to help otherscome together on Friday nights and havea good experience.

13 cancelled school, and the power wascompletely restored within 72 hours.

Unemployment in the United Stateswas unfortunately a huge problem thisyear, reaching 8.2 percent at the endof May. Following the worsening of theeconomy, a lot of attention was put onthe election. Mitt Romney ran againstBarack Obama, and on November 5,Obama was re-elected president. Thevotes were close, adding up to 332 Elec-toral Votes and 62,611,250 Popular Votesfor Obama Biden, and 260 Electoral Votesand 59,134,475 Popular Votes for RomneyRyan. Here in Middlesex county, Obamaalso won the popular vote. Obama wonover 57.3% of voters, while Romney cameup short with 40.4%. When Coginchaugheld their own “Mock Election”, Obamawon, as well.

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CRHS Hosts SHEDWriting Conference

No ShaveNovember

On Friday, November 16 CRHS had thefortune of hosting the annual ShorelineEnglish Departments (SHED) WritingConference. Students from Cromwell,Valley, Old Saybrook, Morgan, Haddam-Killingworth, North Branford, and someof our very own from CRHS were in at-tendance. The conference o9ered :veworkshops including :ction, poetry, jour-nalism, romance, and drama. Studentswere able to take part in two of the :veclassroom-setting style workshops.

“It’s great seeing students exhibit theirabilities.” said CRHS English teacher Mrs.Michelle McClintick, a key organizer ofthis year’s event. “I love having the stu-dents come.”

The :ve di9erent workshops were runby :ve di9erent locally and nationally rec-ognized authors.

Childrens author Leslie Bulion headedthe :ction workshop. One of Bulion’smost recent works, At the Sea Floor Café:Odd Ocean Critter Poems, received nu-merous writing awards including the2012 Bank Street Best College Book andthe Parents’ Choice Award 2011.

Poet Mrs. Merrill Adams lead the poetryworkshop. Adams poem Solitude was anhonorable mention in the 2007 New Eng-land Writers 20th Annual Free Verse Con-test. Adams is a former CRHS English anddrama teacher. When asked how the stu-dents were the poet responded “Enthusi-astic and well motivated. I was impressedwith their willingness to participate.”

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As you may have noticed, manyCoginchaug boys were looking a littlemore disgusting than usual last month.The culprit to blame is none other thansimple tradition; No Shave November.

No-Shave was originated by a groupof college boys who mutually agreedthey wanted to have an entire monthdedicated to laziness and unkemptness,and due to the month’s sudden decreasein temperature and coincidental letterphrasing, they decided November wouldbe the best. (noshember.com) It was onlya matter of time before the traditioncaught up with high school students aswell, and although the facial hair growingabilities of most high school boys is ad-mittedly less impressive than that of theircollege counterparts, the spirit of lazinessprevails nonetheless.

Be it a chinstrap, dirt lip, grody goateeor full on beard, the tradition carries onthrough our faces.“It was pretty fun! I liked being a moun-tain man for a while,” said junior BrianBlake.

Sophomore Jeremy Cannon agreedto an extent. “Yeah, it was nice while itlasted, but it’s December now. It’s time forpeople to shave.”

Mustache Monday, a powerful adver-sary of No-Shave, is the :rst Monday of December in which the truly bold par-ticipants are to shave every part of theirfacial hair except their mustache. As I’msure you can understand, a lone mus-tache on the babyish faces of Coginchaugboys would probably be absolutely hilari-ous, and almost nobody participated in itthis year.

Obviously the men in the school areproud of their bodacious, beautifulbeards. But what exactly are the ladiesthinking about all this laziness?

“I think it’s really stupid,” said Olivia Ha-glund, Coginchaug freshman.“By the endof the month all the boys look really un-kempt.”“It’s a good cause, they’re supportingpeople with prostate cancer I’m prettysure,” said Laynie Joyce. “I think peoplewho do it are nice, even if they can’t af-ford to donate.”

With December sweeping through, thefreshly shaven faces of our youth nowshine brilliantly. What will No Shave No-vember entail in the future? Who will bebrave enough to participate in MustacheMonday? We’ll just have to wait until nextyear to :nd out.

chael Hayes ran the journalism work-shop. Hayes has “worked in news for overa decade, both as a television news re-porter and online reporter.” Michael andMerrill Adams shared similar thoughtson the students “I was impressed withhow engaged the students were in learn-ing about the journalistic process.” saidHayes. “It’s always so rewarding to beable to give back, and to reach our futurewriters.”

Playwright Heather McCutchen taughtthe drama workshop. In 1989 McCutch-en’s play 3 a.m. received the University ofIowa’s Best Play Award.

New York Times Bestselling romancenovelist Kristan Higgins lead the romanceworkshop. Kristan Higgins is a two timeRomance Writers of America RITA awardwinner for her novels Catch of the Dayand Too Good To Be True along with pub-lishing eight other successful works.

“It was a good experience because thementors knew what they were talkingabout” said CRHS junior Brenna Goldbergwho participated in the short story andpoetry workshops at the conference “Ilearned a lot.”

After a shortened day of school on No-vember students prepared themselvesfor the thrid annual Madden CRHS Tour-nament.

The tournament for the last two yearswas held on the Playstation 3 instead ofthe Xbox like it was during the :rst year.Due to the lag of the Xbox the tourna-ment was transitioned to the Playstation3.

The winner of the tournement, me, Jor-dan Cowles, won a :fty dollar gift card toGame Stop and runner up, Gage Marino,won a 25 dollar gift card.

The fee to play was 2 dollars and allmoney went to the Amazing Grace FoodPantry.

“Its a great way to connect studentswith their school.” said librarian TraceyEarnshaw.

“Charity made playing in the tourna-ment worth it even if you didn’t win.It was a fun time just hanging out andwatching some of the games while wait-ing to play your game.” said senior RyanLasso.

“Even though I lost it was extremely funto participate in the tournament as it al-ways is,” said the two time champion andsenior Conner Thrall.

Winner of the Madden Tournament, Jor-dan Cowles, is also a reporter for the Dev-ils’ Advocate and the author of this story.

Junior Christian Adams is pictured com-peting in the Madden ‘13 tournamentin the CRHS Library. Adams competedagainst nearly two dozen people whosigned up. Photo by Jordan Cowles

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You may have been in the CAD room and seen a strange ma-chine in the back of the room creating small plastic objects out of what it seems like thin air. Sorry wizards, but this isn’t magic. It's actually a 3D printer using the CAD Design software called ‘Solidworks.’ This $1300 piece of technology has been creating objects for close to o month by placing layers of hot plastic one on top of another. “This printer uses ABS plastic to create objects such as chess pieces, keychains, and other miscellaneous small objects.” said technology teacher Mr. Lar-ry Gaechter.

Now what’s so special about these key chains? Well they are produced right here in CRHS by Mr. Geachter. Although they can take up to an hour to create they are for sale at the CoginShop for only two dollars each. On top of that they come in blue, black, red, and white, and are custom-izable with your name and year of graduation. “Its a very cool machine, and a great investment in the technol-ogy wing of school,” said sopho-more Nick Tyc. “Very neat advancement in technology,” said senior Josh Villa. “I hope to see even more designs created and sold.”

With all the devastation that hurricane Sandy brought upon Connecticut’s coastal towns, Coginchaug sta! decided to help by developing a fundraiser for the victims of the storm. English teachers Mrs. Sarah Aceto and Ms. Donna Mattei set up a fundraiser in which each homeroom donated as much money as they could, which would also solve the problem of the three-way tie from spirit week. “Ms. Mattei came to me one morning and thought how great it would be to make a school-wide e!ort to help the people dealing with such severe rami"-cations of Hurricane Sandy,” said Mrs. Aceto. The teachers wondered whether or not they should do-nate supplies such as toiletries, blankets, or food instead of money. “After brainstorming at the meeting and through e-mail, we decided to raise money through a homeroom challenge that would help settle the three way tie from spirit week,” continued Mrs. Aceto. “We decided to send the money to the Connecticut Food Bank.” On the CT Food Bank website

you can donate food, money, or even volunteer to help out at the food bank. “The organization does an amazing job of directing the money where it is needed and making one dollar stretch quite far,” said Mrs. Aceto. The organization website ex-plains that for every dollar do-nated, they are able to feed a person in need for one day. They continue to say that 94 cents of every dollar goes directly to pro-gram services. Other ways of do-nating are by credit card online or by check. The total amount that the school ended up donating was $471. That is just under 500 peo-ple that Coginchaug students helped to feed, which is an ex-cellent turnout. As for the spirit week tie, the seniors donated the most mon-ey, putting them in "rst place and winning them a pizza party during midterm exams. What Coginchaug faculty and students did was excellent and helped quite a few people. If you wish to donate to the CT Food Bank to help families in need this holiday season, you can do-nate at www.ctfoodbank.org.

Above, from left senior Josh Villa, junior Nick Tyc, and freshman Cooper Dahlman experiement with the new 3D printer located in Mr. Geachter’s computer lab. Photo by Adrian Tubis

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Students express themselves during their senior class trip to Washington D.C. where they vis-ited many sites, some including; The Lincoln, Washington, and Airforce Monuments.

Photos by Syndey Altschuler, Kayla Dandelski, Kaitlin McK-ernan, Mr. Nathan Fisher, and Tommy Schock

Holidays are quickly approaching and are always an exciting time of year. Inside Coginchaug, students and teachers are making christmas lists, traveling, and preparing for celebrations. Freshman, Holly Longobardi, is staying home for the majority of the holiday. While she hosted Thanksgiving at her house, she’ll be visiting her cousins, also in Durham, to celebrate Christmas. “After the holiday I hope I can just hang-out and relax for the rest of the break,” she said. Senior, Aleah Querns, has similar plans to Holly. “I had Thanksgiving at my house and ate a lot of food on Thanksgiving. For

Christmas I’ll be going to my aunt’s house in Chester, Connecticut. ” The one thing on Aleah’s Christmas wish list is an iPad, and she hopes that it snows over break so that she could go sledding. Junior Rue Strothers has plans to complete her 2012 new year’s resolution. At the beginning of the year she made it her goal to meet her favorite celebrities, and she hopes to spend break seeking out the last of her favorite musicians and TV show personalities. She has already met We The Kings, Reel Big Fish, and a few cast members on The Deadliest Catch. Library Specialist, Mrs. Pat Daly, has already kick-started her festivities in Colorado. She ran her Frst race, planned

her daughters wedding, celebrated Christmas and four birthdays -- all in Thanksgiving weekend! “It was so exciting”, she recalled, “I don’t think we could have squoze in any more activities.” Her daughter will be Iying from Col-orado to visit Mrs. Daly over the break. They’ll be continuing wedding activities by picking out a dress together. Although Mrs. Daly already celebrated Christmas with the majority of her family, she hopes to receive new pots and pans on Christmas Day. “I think it’s time to replace the old ones in our house, then we can have a nice party,” she said.

Mrs. Pat Daly is pictured with her family in Colorado, celebrating the race.

Photo courtesy of Pat Daly

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Last year two Coginchaug seniors achieved a big accom-plishment that put their names on our gym wall. Audrey Biesak and Erikson Waysl worked hard throughout their four years playing basketball and hit a thousand points towards the end of their seasons. Although the school holds milestones for the basketball teams, there are no records held for any other sport other than track.

Last year a number of Coginchaug students broke re-cords for indoor and outdoor track. During indoor track, in 2010 Lora Manley set a height of 7 feet and 6 inches for pole vault, but Monika Malek broke her record with a height of 8 feet. During outdoor track, Alison

Luther broke a record that was held since 1986 and 1990. Jody Planeta and Carrie Kalinowski both had the same record set at 13.10 seconds for the 100 meter dash. Alison broke this record

with 12.80 seconds. Also for outdoor track, the old record for the four by one-hun-dred relay was set in 2001 with a time of 53.41 seconds. Last year this record was broken by Ali-son Luther, Ali Doolittle, Lauren Trombetta, and Kelly Donovan with a time of 52.60 seconds. Although the football team doesn’t keep any records for the school, students from the foot-ball team have worked hard and deserve recognition. “We have three seniors who did not become starters until this season,” said football coach Mr. John Bozzi. “[They are] Con-ner Thrall, Jake Nickel and JeD Grumm. We were a much better team thanks to their persever-ance and patience. It’s easy to stick to a sport when you be-come a starter as a sophomore or junior. Most kids don’t have the commitment to work for three years so they can get a shot at starting as seniors. These guys did.”

Former Coginchaug graduates are commemorated in the gymna-sium at CRHS for there astounding accomplishment.

Photo by Victoria Buonanni

Defense of the juniors came into play at the start of the half when they stopped the seniors and took the momentum. The juniors scored on a reverse pass to Morgan Kuehnle but couldn’t convert on the extra point leav-ing the seniors in the lead with a score of 13-12. The seniors responded by marching down the Neld and feeding the ball to Kayla Votto who ran the ball all the way down to the four-yard line. On the four yard line JeD Grumm, the oDensive coordinator, dialed up a reverse to Lauren Trom-betta who scored the four yard touchdown. The extra point was incomplete leaving the score at 19-12, seniors. The juniors called Morgan Kuehnle’s number again when Kim RomanoD threw an 80-yard bomb to score a touchdown with Nve minutes left in the game. The juniors couldn’t con-vert on the game tying extra point. The seniors gave the ball back on the next drive as the juniors defense stepped up. And the Juniors proved this true when RomanoD threw for

another touchdown to MorganKuehnle, who made a spectacu-lar catch, to score a touchdownfor the juniors to go up 24-19with 1:42 left in the game. Thejuniors didn’t convert on the crucial extra point that wouldhave had the juniors go up byone touchdown. The seniors in the end showed their experience and score a 44-yard touchdown of a reverse toKelly Donavon with one minuteleft. On her way to the end zone,she caught a huge block from Jessica Solomon. They convert-ed on the extra point and thescore became 26-24. Then juniors ended up not only battling the seniors on the last drive, but also battling the time as they tried driving down the Neld with one minute left. Kim RomanoD’s last second heave to Morgan Kuehnle missed byinches, which would have wonthe juniors the game. Instead,the seniors ended up winningthe game. “It was fun working as a team with our class,” said junior Molly MacDuD. “I think it made us all alittle closer.”

The stands were Nlled with students and faculty on the day of Wednesday November 21 for the powderpuD game. The girls and the coaches had their game faces on and were ready to play. “It was a good game for both the juniors and the seniors,” said senior Ali Doolittle. “The juniors gave us a run for our money. It was a lot of fun to play, though, and I’m going to miss it.” The juniors started the game with the ball. Victoria Buonanni scored on a 60-yard run, which made the score six to zero. The juniors did not convert on the extra point attempt. They had to go for the conventional ‘2 point conversion’ which only counted for a single point in this game. The seniors quickly responded with a six-yard touchdown pass to Kristen Ciarlo. They converted the extra point going to Jessica Solomon. They took advantage of the juniors four and out by scoring on the next drive. They did this by giving the ball to Kayla Votto on a reverse for the score. The extra point was in-complete leaving the game a one score game at 13-6 seniors, when half-time came around.

Junior Powder PuD players huddle up during the game. Photo by Craig Norton

As the leaves have fallen and the wintery weather approach-es, the new sports season is underway. The expectations are high across the board and we should be in for quite a treat this 2012-2013 season. The Girl’s Basketball team started oD this season with a 69-62 victory over Kolbe Cathedral

on December 5th. It might seem tough to repeat as state champions for the Girls’ Basketball team this season af-ter losing Andrea Braga, Audrey Biesak (part of the 1,000 point club), Lauren Esposito, and Sam Mancinelli, but the task is not out of reach. “We have two returning start-ers from last years team, senior Jessica Solomon and junior Kim RomanoD, and a large class of eight juniors,” said Coach Rett

Mancinelli. “We have sopho-mores with some varsity experi-ence and everyone is expected to elevate their game this sea-son. The graduated seniors played a bulk of the minutes last year so that leaves a lot of op-

Below, Coach Rett Mancinelli speaks to his players during a timeout at last years state championship game.

Photo courtesy of Kim Romano5

*See “Winter Sports” contin-ued on page 8

portunity for players to step up.” Another challenge this seasonis moving from Class S to ClassM. This is going to challenge theDevils’ to step up their game b

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Webster de�nes excellence as “the qual-ity of being excellent” or “superiority in virtue.” Throughout Coginchaug history several individuals have displayed such characteristics, but none quite as well as head track and cross country coach Marty Roberts or the incredible brother-sister running duo of alumni Patrick (‘03) and Maureen Dooley (’04). On November 11 the Shoreline Con-ference Cross-Country Recognition Ban-quet was held at the Clinton Country Club. Coach Roberts was in attendance as well as the Dooleys. Two current CRHS students, sophomore Kelly Halligan and I, were also present along with a few fam-ily members and assistant cross country and head track coach Dave Bellamare. After the recognition of the All-Shore-line boys and girls teams, as well as a few other individual awards, it was time to announce the 2012 Shoreline Confer-ence Hall of fame inductees. Coach Marty Roberts was introduced �rst. As he made his way up to the po-dium, the speaker rattled o� a few per-sonal jokes and continued on to describe the coaches many achievements in his time spent coaching Coginchaug. Rob-erts’ many nominations include the 2002 “Outstanding Boys Track Coach of the Year” by the Connecticut High School Coaches Association and the 2011 New Haven Area “Coach of the Year.” Along with being nominated twice for “Na-tional Coach of the Year” he is a ten time Shoreline “Coach of the year” recipient and nine time “Faulk Award” recipient. The “Faulk Award” is given every year to the school with the highest boys and girls team score at the Shoreline Cham-

pionships. Maureen Dooley was next to be induct-ed. In her running career at Coginchaug, Maureen had set school records from the 1000 meter on up to the 3200 meter individually including being a member of the record setting 4by800meter and DMR relay teams. A two-time Shoreline cross country champion, coincidentally the same years as her brother Patrick, she quali�ed for the New England cham-pionships twice, once for cross country in 2002 and again for indoor track in 2004. After proving herself as a double threat both in running and academics at Coginchaug, Maureen enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy where she gradu-ated as a scholar-athlete. Patrick Dooley was the third Hall of Fame inductee of 2012. Patrick was a two time Shoreline cross country champion, winning the title in his junior and senior years of high school, along with qualify-ing for the New England Championships both years, as well. On the track Patrick set records in the 1600 meter and 3200 meter both for the indoor and outdoor track seasons, as well as running on the school record setting 4 by 1600 meter team. He was crowned Shoreline 3200 meter champion in 2002 and 2003. In his senior year he won the 1600 meter, 3200 meter, and was runner up in the 800 meter to help his team take the 2003 Shoreline title. Dooley went on to qualify for New Englands in the 3200 meter and reset his school record once again. After Coginchaug Patrick moved on to the U.S. Military Academy and eventually onto competing in the Ivy League for Dart-

because they are going to be playing larger schools that have aplethora of talent. “We have scheduled some historically strong Class M teams during the regular season to help us prepare to compete in the Class M State Tournament,” said Coach Mancinelli. “I really feel that we are going to have a good team this year,” said junior Morgan Kuehnle. “Most people are not expect-ing us to be as good as last year because we lost four talented seniors, but we still have a lot of returning talent on the team and many people stepping up to the var-sity level.” For the boys’ indoor track team, the goals are set high and a shoreline cham-pionship is wanted by all. “The boys’ indoor track team wants to win the shoreline championship,” said Coach Bellamare. “To get there we need to believe we have the capability to win, work hard with e�ective workouts, and when we step of the competition �oor, we are going to be certain that we have given all that we can give.” Senior Marco Rondinone is like a fresh-

man to the team this year as he just de-cided to join andthrow shot put. “The olympics helped motivate me to join track this year,” said Marco. “Seeing the athletes compete made me want to do the same.” On the �ip side, the girls’ indoor track team is looking forward to the upcoming season as well. “This is going to be an amazing sea-son- I can already tell,” said senior Natalie Swanson. “There is so much potential in everyone and I think we are going to do really well as a team. I can notwait for the �rst meet of the season.” Finally, the boys’ basketball team has lost a handful of seniors this year, and now currently has 3 seniors for the 2012-2013 season. Senior captains Jackson Doyle and Mike Bongiorno lead the way for the team. The third captain, junior Jack Granger, wants the team to stick to-gether and it will lead to a winning team. “Our goal is to play together,” said Jack. “We want to make a run this year and we will do this by staying together as one.”

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Photo by Phil Ho(man

Photo courtesy of Dartmouth AthleticsMaureen Dooley, pictured above, went on to run for the U.S. Naval Academy. Patrick Dooley, above right, ran for Dartmouth.

Above, Coach Marty Roberts pose with his last cross country team.Photo by Jennifer Schulten

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Join your commu-nity for the Nutmeg atNight Game Show, afun evening centeredon reading and goodbooks. This year’sshow is sponsored bythe Coginchaug Val-ley Education Foun-dation, and it has ex-panded.

On Jan. 9, twogroups of readers willcompete in two Nut-meg at Night contests.Round 1, for childrenin grades 4-6, will be-gin at 6 p.m. Round 2,for teen teams (grades7-12) and adult teamswill begin at 7:30 p.m.To qualify for thegame show, read atleast three Nutmegnominee books, inyour age category, be-fore Jan. 4. Nutmeg atNight will be held atThe Durham PublicLibrary. The 10 inter-mediate Nutmeg ti-tles and the 10 teenNutmeg titles areavailable at the LeviE. Coe Library,Durham Public Li-brary and school li-braries. Once youhave read at leastthree Nutmeg nomi-nees, complete a reg-istration form at oneof the libraries.

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One Book, One Commu-nity: “Empire Falls” byRichard Russo has been se-lected for the One Book, OneCommunity project, whereDurham and Middlefield col-laborate on a celebration ofsmall town life. The kickoffevent is a book discussionscheduled for Thursday, Jan.3, at 7 p.m., at the Durham

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Nutmeg at Night: Triviagame night, Jan. 9.

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Strong School studentsand staff wanted toshow Sandy Hook Ele-mentary School theirsupport. The entireschool posed for a pic-ture Dec. 18, holding asign that says: “WeCare SHES.” The pic-ture, taken by artteacher Amy Schaefer,will be sent to SHES inNewtown.

here.”That same chilling realiza-

tion was experienced by mostwho took to social media toexpress their own grief.

One Middlefield residentposted to Facebook, “I have togo to our concert tonightwondering how many of mykids lost siblings today (New-town is one of our dis-tricts)…when I have to callthe people I know and hearthat yes, their 9 year old sonis alive but their friends’ 6year olds are not. I lived inNewtown for two, threeyears. I taught in thoseschools, Newtown and SandyHook.”

It didn’t take long for Face-book and Twitter to floodwith links to news reportsand opinions on gun control,mental health and schoolsafety.

Almost immediately, Re-gional School District 13 Su-perintendent Susan Viccaroposted a message to the dis-trict’s homepage.

“It is with great sadnessthat we begin the work of ac-knowledging the events of to-day in Newtown, CT,” shesaid.

The message suggestedthat parents decide for them-selves if they should discussthe mass shooting with theirchildren, saying the decision“will be unique to you andyour family.” She clarifiedthat the tragedy would not bediscussed at RSD13 elemen-

tary schools “in deference tothe parenting you wish todo.”

“As always though,” Vic-caro continued, “shouldyour child express concernor anxiety about it at school,

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day of the shooting, the ad-ministrative team of RSD13met to discuss securitymeasures and to plan thecoming week.

Action was taken quickly,as Viccaro took to the dis-

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Aside from posts on thedistrict website, schools aretrying to keep parents in theloop. At Strong School, a mes-sage was sent to parentsTuesday morning, Dec. 18,alerting them that TrooperKelly would be visitingStrong School that morningto say hello and take a walk-ing tour with Principal ScottSadinsky to re-familiarizehimself with the school.

“In light of recent events,we all appreciate the pres-ence and support of our local

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authorities,” the message,signed by Sadinsky, read.“This is yet another excellentexample of the collaborativeeffort among personnel with-in RSD13.”

The Board of Educationplanned to meet Wednesday,Dec. 19, at 6:30 p.m. to discusssecurity measures.

Viccaro could not bereached for additional com-ments by press time Wednes-day, but Francis said Mondaythat she met with Viccaroand Middlefield First Select-man Jon Brayshaw over theweekend and will continue tomeet.

“I think we need to contin-ue discussing protocol, plans,preparedness, and not imple-ment kneejerk policies, butbe thoughtful,” Francis said.

When asked if she thoughtthis community would beprepared for such a tragedy,Francis’ response was two-fold.

“I do think we’re pre-

pared,” she said, citing the lo-cal emergency operationsplan. Just last week, RSD13had a lock down drill, shesaid.

But Francis also said everyemergency is different, so inthat sense, the towns aren’tprepared.

“To some degree, how canyou prepare for this? How doyou prepare for the unimag-inable?” she said. “But ofcourse, now it is somethingwe can imagine, because ithappened. From that respect,I will always now have in mymind what would I do? Whatwould I say?”

Brayshaw also could not bereached for comment beforepress time.

While talk about safetyand preparedness continues,in didn’t take long for thecommunity to come togetherto mourn. Before the week-end was over, an evening vig-il was held at the CoginchaugHigh School athletic field.Hundreds from Middlefield,Durham and Regional SchoolDistrict 13 in the cold rainSunday evening, Dec. 16, toremember the victims of the

tragedy. The vigil was just 25minutes long but was com-plete with prayer, song, briefspeeches and a reading ofthe names of the deceased.Some participants broughtflashlights and electric can-dles; many simply held ontoeach other.

Durham MiddlefieldYouth & Family Servicessent out a newsletter earlierthis week offering resourcesand support for families inthe wake of the Sandy Hooktragedy.

“Children and adults alikehave been exposed to imagesof violence and horror, butalso images of bravery, com-passion and a shared sensethat coming together willprovide healing andstrength,” the newsletter,signed by Executive DirectorBetsy Dean, said.

The email contained linksto resources on how to com-municate with childrenabout the tragedy as well assigns to be aware of that mayindicate a child or adult isstruggling and needs an in-creased level of support.

DMYFS also invited fami-lies to take part in “Share theLight for Sandy Hook” onDec. 24 in their own home bylighting one luminary orcandle to represent all whowere lost or lighting 27 lumi-naries/candles to representeach life lost and placingthem on front steps for theevening.

It is these small effortsthat help the communityheal after a tragedy of thismagnitude, at least here inDurham and Middlefield.

“Part of my strength isknowing this communitywill be activated to help in atragedy, I know, I am confi-dent in that,” Francis said.“I’ve seen it already in differ-ent levels of emergencieshere. From storms, from thecommunity reacting to ill-nesses, death. I’ve seen thiscommunity activate. I’m to-tally confident, if anythinghappened like that here, wewould all be there for eachother.”

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Connecticut Gymnastics Academy captures state team titlesBy Brock Freehling


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The CGA Level 6 girls teamwon the team competition onSaturday evening. The teamconsisted of Sarah Newhart,Brynn Freehling, MeganConnelly, Molly Hayden, Va-lerie Nicholson, Liana Ro-man, Georgia Smith and Car-olyn Cumello.

The following day the Lev-el 4 team also placed first inthe team competition. Theteam was led by Nicole De-mentyev, Claire Riccitelli-Pestana, Delaney Boone, El-yse Boothroyd, of Durham,Kelly Santacroce, Jaime

Koons, Haley Derwin andRuthuja Nataraj. Otherstrong performers includedAlison Albanese, SavannaBauman, Noelle Carmody,Ally Farrell, Madison Grieg,Cally Foreman, GabriellaLachance and Claire Vega.

Rounding out the weekendthe Level 5 team completedthe sweep by also winningthe team title. The team con-sists of Olivia Aitken, SierraBauman, SavannahBernabucci, ElisabethBrown, Alyssa Cervero,

Emma Connelly, MadeleineDrucker, Delaney Krystkijand Ava Santacroce. Allplayed an integral part inearning the team title.

The girls are coached byBrock Freehling, KimHoward, Brittany Dubovick,Tricia Latham and AudreyLastra.

This completes the fall sea-son for CGA. The girls eitherwon or came in top three ateach of their competitionsthis year. Next up for the CGAgirls team is the Brestyan’sInvitational — the club ofOlympic Gold Medalist AlyRaisman — in January heldin Boston, Mass. CGA will becompeting against teamsfrom all over New England.

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Gone are all of thestarters from last year’sCoginchaug Boys Basketballteam — Erikson Wasyl,Ethan Donecker, BrockHoyt, Alec Corazzini andJake Tietlebaum have allgraduated, along with keycontributors from last year,Sam Baker, Kevin Gawronand Luke Bogdanski. Theonly returning player withany meaningful minutesfrom last season is MikeBongiorno, and even he wasthe third man off the bench.So the objective this seasonis to be competitive, andstrive to make both theShoreline and State post sea-son tournaments. To do sowould be a huge accomplish-ment for this inexperiencedteam.

On Saturday, Dec. 15, theDevils hosted the Noises ofHale Ray. The visitorsjumped to an early lead, butCoginchaug finally took thelead for good on an Alex Ko-trady free throw shortly be-fore the half. Coginchaugwent on a bit of a run earlyin the second half and led 36-21 with 2:30 left in the third,but a foul, a turnover andmissed Blue Devil shots ledto free throws and treys, asthe Noises kept the gameclose.

In the final period, theDevils made 10 of 11 freethrows, just enough tonegate some crazy three-point shooting by the visit-ing Noises, who connectedon five shots from beyondthe arc in the period.

Jackson Doyle led theDevils with 13 points, addingnine rebounds and four as-sists. Devin Rodriguezscored 11 points, and alsohad nine rebounds. JackGranger scored nine points,and Mike Bongiorno scoredseven.

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New CRHS record-holder Seniors Ben Taber (800m),Wolfgang Wallach (400m),David Trombetta (200m)and Evan Rand (200m) seta new Coginchaug schoolrecord in the Sprint MedleyRelay on Dec. 12. The relayteam finished in 3:50, tak-ing three seconds off theprevious record and finish-ing 14 seconds ahead oftheir nearest competitor.The meet was part of a de-velopmental conference atthe Floyd Little AthleticCenter in New Haven.

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The Lady Devils wongames at Hyde on Dec. 11 andat home over Hale Ray onDec. 14, in what Coach RettMancinelli characterized as“sloppily played games.”

Coginchaug actuallytrailed Hyde in the fourthquarter, but managed tomake enough free throwsdown the stretch to pull out a51-41 win. Olivia Corazziniled the Devils with 21 points,with Kim Romanoff adding12. Jessica Solomon was keyin the close rebounding bat-tle, with 14 boards, and Mor-gan Kuehnle added 10 re-bounds.

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