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Norwich U.S. Marine Corps recruits were jogging around Chelsea Parade as they worked out together Thursday.
In various stages of their commitment, they meet every Tuesday and Thursday, weather permitting, to stay or get in shape for boot camp. As they do, they encourage one another. I like motivating everyone, it s great! said Charles Smith of Westerly, who was giving a thumbs-up to fellow recruits as he ran with them. He doesn t have a ship-out date yet.
Dakota Burns, 17, graduated from Norwich Free Academy in June and is headed to San Diego State in the fall on a Navy ROTC scholarship. Andrew Wigfield, 17, is a rising senior at Montville High School and will head to boot camp next summer.
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Montville Discussions are ongoing between Montville High School officials and the Mohegan Tribe after a recently passed budget bill would allow $1.4 million in funding to be withheld from the school for the use of a Native American-related name.
Montville is one of a dozen towns in the state identified as still having teams with Native American-related names or mascots. The bill states cities and towns have until June 2024 to inform the state Office of Policy and Management of intent to change the names and mascots, or get written permission from tribes to keep them. Otherwise, the municipalities will lose funding from the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan fund starting in June 2023.
Micah Ingram-Townsend, KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy
Over the course of the last month, New Jersey’s high schools have celebrated the graduations of the Class of 2021 with plenty of wise words and proclamations. No less wise have been those from students themselves in the commencement speeches by class presidents, valedictorians, and others, many of them reflecting on what has been remarkable school year in their communities, schools and families. The following are excerpts from a few of those students’ speeches, submitted to NJ Spotlight News by their school principals.
Matthew Campo, Woodbury High School
Everything about our high school experience changed on March 16, 2020. At that time, we thought we would be home on a minibreak for just two weeks and soon things would be back to normal. Little did we know that the world around us would come to a stop and still has yet to totally resume.