Demonstrators gathered on the Derby Green Tuesday night in memory of George Floyd, holding candles as members of the Valley NAACP read the names of Black
Derby students with special needs get custom bikes from CT charity
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Irving Ballester, Jr., 4, of Derby, is excited after trying out a newly donated bicycle for children with disabilities at Little Raiders University preschool in Derby on Thursday.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Sixth grader Jonathan Briscoe, 11, of Derby, tries out a newly donated bicycle for children with disabilities under the watchful eye of physical therapist Ally Nowakowska outside Derby Middle School in Derby Conn. on Thursday, April 8, 2021. The charity Save the Kid Fund and their program Robbie s Riders donates adaptive bicycles to disabled children across the state.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Derby school staffers are among the highest paid in the city
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Superintendent of Schools Matthew Conway was the highest paid employee in Derby in 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Principal Jennifer Olson earned $151,864.56 in 2020, making her the third highest paid educator in the district.Contributed photo - Derby Public Schools /Show MoreShow Less
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Principal Mario Ciccarini leads the annual Bradley Elementary School Halloween Parade in 2019. Ciccarini made $146,202.78 in 2020, putting him fourth on the list of highest paid school staff.Peter Casolino /Show MoreShow Less
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DERBY Administrators from Derby Public Schools are some of the highest paid workers in the city, data released by the district showed.
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Local troop celebrates inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts
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BIRMINGHAM/BLOOMFIELD When longtime Scout mom Heidi Kreindler caught word that the National Boy Scouts of America was going to open its prestigious Eagle Scout program to girls back in 2019, she wanted no part of it.
“I was dead set against it,” Kreindler said with a laugh. “I said ‘Boys need to be with boys, and girls need to be with girls.’”
But her 16-year-old daughter Chloe Kreindler, a junior at Seaholm High School, had a different opinion. The Girl Scout wanted to make history as one of the first females to attain that esteemed rank of Eagle Scout, which only 6% of all Scouts achieve.
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Stacy Lynn Levi Watson, age 46, of Lakeland, Tennessee and wife of Shaun Watson, departed this life Monday morning, January 18, 2021, at Methodist Hospice Residence in Memphis.
The daughter of Donald and Christine Wonneman Levi, Stacy was born January 8, 1975 in Bryan, Texas. A redheaded natural athlete and scholar, Stacy earned a national jump rope championship, a presidential fitness award and excelled at cheerleading and dance at Derby Middle School and Derby High School in Derby, Kansas. She achieved All American pom pon and competed nationally with the academic high school Future Problem Solving team.
She graduated from Derby High School as a junior in 1992 and attended Kansas State University where she was a member of Delta, Delta, Delta sorority. She graduated with honors from Wichita State University with her bachelor of science in marketing and earned her master of business administration with an emphasis in market finance which prepared her for a successful caree