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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2011
VOL. 23 NO. 73
CONWAY, N.H.
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Student early-release days being dismissed
Long-time police commissioner honored
SAU 9 board doing away with one early-release day next year, all the year after BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
Robert Porter was recognized for his 25 years of service on the Conway Police Commission Tuesday morning. Porter retired from the commission last year. Theresa Kennett, commission chair, presented Porter with a plaque. (ERIK EISELE PHOTO)
CONWAY — One of four planned early-release days for students is being eliminated next year, and the SAU 9 board is directing the calendar committee to eliminate all earlyrelease days the following year. Dick Klement, of the Conway School Board, was disappointed to see four planned early-release days on the calendar given his board had directed the calendar committee to have no more than two this upcoming year. see EARLY RELEASE page 8
Henney Sullivan is Kennett High School’s first National Merit Scholarship winner BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
Henney Sullivan
CONWAY — Henney Sullivan, the student body president at Kennett High, has become the school's first National Merit Scholarship winner. He and the school received the news Wednesday afternoon. "It is with great pride and pleasure that we learned that James 'Henney' Sullivan has been selected as a National Merit Scholarship winner," Kennett High principal Neal Moylan announced Wednesday. "From approximately 1.5 million students who entered the 2011 National Merit Scholarship program, only about 16,000 were named semi-finalists. To become a finalist, the semi-finalist had to submit a detailed scholarship application and present a record of very high academic performance. All winners of about 8,400 National Merit Scholarships were chosen from the
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“We’re all thrilled and very proud of Henney. I couldn’t be happier for him; he thoroughly deserves this honor. He’s done an awesome, awesome job representing Kennett and our community.” group of 15,000 distinguished finalists." Sullivan, the son of Marnie Cobb and Dennis Sullivan, of Eaton, will head to Harvard this fall for college. "We're all thrilled and very proud of Henney," Moylan said by phone. "I couldn't be happier for him; he thoroughly deserves this honor. He's done an awesome, awesome job representing Kennett and our community." see SULLIVAN page 9
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