Attorney Scott Zweig struck a disappointed, yet defiant, tone when commenting on the dismissal of the lawsuit he and Mary McGowan filed in an effort to overturn the West Hartford Board of Education’s decision to change the mascots of the town’s two public high schools.
A Superior Court judge in Hartford Friday denied two residents’ request for a temporary injunction that sought to prevent West Hartford’s two public high schools from moving forward with changing their mascots.
After months of discussion, Hall and Conard High Schools in West Hartford have new mascots. Conard High School changed from the Chieftains to the Red Wolves..
The controversy over renaming the mascots at Hall and Conard high schools took another unexpected turn Monday after two West Hartford residents filed an 11th-hour lawsuit seeking to prevent the Board of Education from moving forward with adopting new mascots at Tuesday night's meeting.