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Volume 19, Number 25
Three centuries of history Founding family descendant to leave Upson homestead By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — A tenthgeneration Upson descendant, Elizabeth Upson Stanley will be the last of the founding family to live at its Marion Avenue homestead. Stanley, 84, is moving with Stanley her son to Florida later this month. It was a difficult decision, but necessary move, she said. She’s also encouraged that much of the family land is now protected open space. “It’s killing me to leave this place,” Stanley said. “It was just a matter of the right thing for me to do and the right time to do it.”
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Friday, June 24, 2022
Plainville High School’s top students persevered By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
PLAINVILLE — Plainville High School valedictorian Daniel Sozanski is fascinated by numbers. Southington resident Carol Langley on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania in 2009.
Senior hiker has no plans to slow down By Joy VanderLek Special to The Citizen
SOUTHINGTON — Each year, for a number of decades, Carol Langley has hiked portions of the Appalachian Trail. And this summer, as she closes in on a milestone birthday, Langley will be on the AT once again. “I turn 80 in December,” the longtime Southington resident pointed out. Langley credits her grandparents for her good genes and love of nature. She remembers going on all-day hikes with her grandfather, and recalls her grandmother working in the
family vegetable garden in Wolcott well into her 90s. “I am walking in their footsteps,” said Langley, who’s very first Appalachian Trail experience came way back in 1956. “I was in junior high school and I went with my Girl Scout leader and we went to Bear Mountain and we slept on tarps,” she said.
So, as a freshman, he started delving into the world of economics. “I knew I wanted to do something in business and math,” said Sozanski, who is headed to Princeton in the fall. “When I studied it (economics), it hit me, and I knew I wanted to do it.” The Class of 2022’s top student said he is looking forward to challenging himself in college. Thinking about potential careers, Sozanski said, “I’m open to exploring different jobs. Something with research and analysis, statistics, numbers.”
“I have been outdoors forever.” The intrepid senior has scads of photos from past hiking adventures,
Plainville High School valedictorian Daniel Sozanski and salutatorian Hailey Calder. Nicole Zappone, The Citizen
At PHS, Sozanski took 12 AP and Early College Experience classes. He also competed in cross country, swimming and track and See PHS, A2
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