TSM/Utica Comets The Utica City School District is represented in various sports arenas as the Raiders and they wear the colors black and red. What an amazing new opportunity for the new Utica Comets to partner in some way with the Proctor Raiders and Raiders at most levels. Common Council-at-Large candidate Samantha Colosimo-Testa is a teacher and mother in the Utica School District. Colosimo-Testa says, Utica should be unified from its elementary to high school in colors. It shows solidarity. I look at Whitesboro and New Hartford and envy their pride from the bottom up. It’s time Utica takes advantage of supporting its own and being proud of the colors they wear from the time they step foot in a Utica school and what better time to do it with the new Utica Comets colors and hope of support from them.