Something Rotten! at Darien High: Theater group creates outdoor experience
Jarret Liotta
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Performers, left to right, Aidan Kennedy, 16, Sam Bellingham, 17, Luke Ryan, 16, and Stella Meier, 16, get into character during the sound check at the performance of Something Rotten! at Darien High School on May 27, 2021.Jarret Liotta / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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The Darien High Theatre 308 cast poses for a shot before the performance of “Something Rotten!” at Darien High School on ThursdayJarret Liotta / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Katie Keating, 16, and Sam Baiocco, 15, at right, do some last-minute brading on Ally Spangler, 15, Ally Spanger, 15, Katie Keating, 16, Sam Baiocco, 15, prior to the Darien High Theatre 308 performance on May 27, 2021.Jarret Liotta / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Written by Jennifer Fallon
The Thriving Youth Task Force (TYTF) is thrilled to announce that Allegra Erickson and Christina Passaretti will join its executive board for the 2021/22 school year. Erickson will assume the role of Executive Board Co-Chair. She will succeed Shelly Skoglund, who will complete her term as Co-Chair this year. Christina Passaretti will serve as Vice-Chair, succeeding Susan Marks, who will also complete her term this year.
Erickson brings a wealth of experience to the Thriving Youth Task Force. She has served our community on the PTO executive boards of Hindley Elementary, Middlesex Middle School and Darien High School and was a board member, Youth Asset Team Adult Advisor, and Community Investment executive board member for The Community Fund of Darien. She also served as a Deacon and on the building committee at Noroton Presbyterian Church, and is currently a Darien Library Trustee.
Darien EMS member earns national scholarship toward pre-med school
May 5, 2021
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Darien EMS Post 53 volunteer and Darien High senior Lindsay Smith was recently awarded Claes Nobel Future Female Leader Scholarship by the National Society of High School Scholars to help her further her medical career in college.National Society of High School Scholars / Contributed
DARIEN There’s a moment each year during the Memorial Day parade that Darien EMS Post 53 shares a tradition: As the members of the nation’s only high school student first responder organization walk under the railroad underpass on the Post Road, a flag is passed from the graduating seniors to the next class of leaders.
Superintendent: Criticism of Darien teacher absences due to COVID vaccine side effects unfortunate and disappointing
Susan Shultz
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Darien Superintendent of Schools Alan Addley and Darien teachers union president, Joslyn Delancey, get vaccinated against the coronavirus March 6, at Town Hall in Darien.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
DARIEN Three town schools reopened Tuesday after all classes and activities were canceled the previous day due to staff shortages related to side effects from the COVID vaccine, the superintendent said.
Schools Superintendent Alan Addley said the staff absences were “nearly exclusively attributable to feeling ill after the second vaccination.”
Darien teachers and staff members received their second Moderna vaccine on Saturday in a town clinic.
Superintendent: Criticism of Darien teacher absences due to COVID vaccine side effects unfortunate and disappointing middletownpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from middletownpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.