Volume 19, Number 18
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Board votes to nix class rank on transcripts By Charles Kreutzkamp
tion. He said the high school offices will be moving to McGee for the summer as con“The year ended nicely,” struction efforts step up. At the meeting, the board said Superintendent David Erwin at the June 22 Board of voted unanimously to remove Education meeting, one day class rank from the tranafter the high school gradua- scripts of Berlin High School The Berlin Citizen
graduates starting with the class of 2016. Principal Francis Kennedy explained to the board that he researched the issue and found no downside, as students who wish to report their class rank to colleges may still request that
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information. This measure has been taken on by other area schools, as a class ranking under 20 has been found to count against students, he said. Class rank made more sense “multiple decades ago when not everyone thought
they could go to college,” Kennedy said, but now “we not only believe that most everyone can go to college,” but many students, and not just those at the very top, are caSee Transcripts / Page 2
Town landmark safe in new hands By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
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Kevin Quinn, of Berlin, was honored on the field at Fenway Park prior to the Boston Red Sox game against the Atlanta Braves on June 15. Quinn was named the Blood Donor of the Game after donating blood with the American Red Cross.
Since 1898, local farmers have come to A.S. Labieniec for food and supplies for their animals. As of June 4, the business at 817 Farmington Ave. is under new ownership – and John and Joyce Conner are committed to preserving that history. The married couple met when John worked the counter at the iconic Berlin business. Both come from families that raised animals. “One day we were talking and we hit it off,” Joyce said. “We became friends first, and then we dated. Three years after that we got married.” “If it wasn’t for Labieniec’s we never would have met,” The new owners of A.S. Labieniec, the Conner Joyce said. family. | Charles Kreutzkamp / The