Another round of legal proceedings flared up Thursday and Friday after the two West Hartford residents filed another motion seeking a temporary injunction barring Conard and Hall high schools from adopting new mascots until a virtual hearing is held on July 7.
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.
It wasn’t until closing remarks, delivered by Melina Pappademos, director of the Africana Studies Institute and associate professor of history at UConn, that the elephant in the room was explicitly addressed.