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NFA held their graduation at Dodd Memorial Stadium in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, will likely return their graduation to campus next year.

NFA graduates and their families nearly filled the Dodd Stadium seats and concourse Wednesday at the 165th graduation ceremony.

On Wednesday, Republican representatives voted to strip Rep. Liz Cheney of her leadership position within the party’s House delegation, a move that represents a significant step by a political party that has precedents in U.S. history. The Onion looks back at the history of U.S. politicians being punished by their own political party.

Norwich — The City Council late Monday approved a new lease for the Thomas J. Dodd Stadium with the Norwich Sea Unicorns, which will start their new life as a summer wooden-bat collegiate team with their first home game May 31. The aldermen expressed hesitancy at the turn of events that cost the city its minor league baseball team with a Major League Baseball affiliation but said approving a two-year lease with a third-year option “by mutual agreement” was the best option for the city. T...

Seating signs and banners, player guides and rulebooks, scarves, hats, pint glasses, baseball bats and bobble heads were among the items for sale Saturday

The Sea Unicorns will hold a concourse sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 8 at Dodd Stadium.

CodeToad Instead of spamming threads with this NRA 1968 American Rifleman article where the NRA admits they backed all major gun control legislation and that they consider guns only for “hunters, target shooters and collectors”, I place the article in its full form here. AMERICAN RIFLEMAN MAGAZINE, MARCH 1968 EDITION WHERE THE NRA STANDS ON GUN LEGISLATION 97-year record shows positive approach to workable gun laws By ALAN C. WEBBER THE AMERICAN RIFLEMAN “I think it is a terrible indictme...

Norwich — Norwich Free Academy will hold its graduation ceremony at 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, at the Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium for the second straight year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this time, graduates will be on the playing field and family members cheering on in the stands. NFA Head of School Brian Kelly announced Thursday that pandemic conditions have not eased enough to allow for the traditional on-campus ceremony on the athletic field, with thousands of family and friend...

This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017 for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” Machiavelli June 19 1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America. 1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game. 1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes ho...

Today Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low near 60F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch.. Tonight Partly cloudy skies this evening will give way to cloudy skies and rain overnight. Low near 60F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch. Updated: March 27, 2021 @ 10:39 pm