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Volume 23, Number 26
Thursday, July 8, 2021
TOP BHS STUDENTS GORSKI, BRYANT HEADED TO DUKE UNIVERSITY
Living the dream By Nadya Korytnikova The Citizen
high school, junior year especially,” said Gorski.
Berlin High school’s valedictorian is headed to a topranked educational institution.
The BHS Class of 2021’s top student earned numerous academic awards during her high school career, including being named an AP Scholar with Distinction and a National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Student.
Makayla Gorski will attend Duke University, where she plans to study biology with a concentration in genetics. She also is looking to pursue a certificate in journalism. “Duke University has been my dream school for a long time, and that really was a driving force throughout
Gorski has been involved in multiple extracurricular activities as well, both at school and in the broader community. See Gorski, A19
Members of the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department gave a nice shout-out to Ryan Preece on his big NASCAR win in June.
Preece impresses in Truck Series debut Berlin High School Class of 2021 valedictorian Makayla Gorski.
Following his passion By Nadya Korytnikova The Citizen
Berlin High School Class of 2021 Salutatorian Michael Bryant.
spell ‘engineer’ correctly back then. It took my mom a little while to figure out what I was trying to say,” said Bryant, who will further his education at Duke University.
Berlin High School Class of 2021 Salutatorian Michael Bryant has dreamt of becoming an engineer since he At the prestigious Durham, was a young child. North Carolina school, “I came home from kinderBryant will pursue a double garten one day with one of major in electrical engineerthese worksheets that say ‘I ing and computer science want to be [fill in the blank].’ And I didn’t know how to See Bryant, A19
(AP) — Berlin native Ryan Preece won the first NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway in a decade by scoring a victory in his first career Truck Series start June 18. Preece got in a truck for the first time to get bonus track time ahead of a June 20 Cup race, the first ever for NASCAR’s top series at the track. Nashville closed after the 2011 season when it couldn’t land a coveted Cup date. Preece passed Grant Enfinger with six laps remaining to become just the fifth driver to win their
Truck Series debut. He celebrated in victory lane with a Gibson guitar, the traditional trophy Nashville awarded its winners during its first run. Preece’s win snapped a two-race winning streak by John Hunter Nemechek, who finished 10th. Preece, Ross Chastain and William Byron all entered the Truck Series race to get an early start on learning the track. The rest of the Cup field wasn’t scheduled to be on track until an afternoon practice on June 19.
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