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GOP picks Gary Byron
The candidate will run for Nafis’ seat STAFF WRITER
Newington native Gary Byron was recently chosen by the town’s Republican Committee as its candidate for State Representative of the 27th Assembly District. He is running against Carol Anest, chairwoman of the Town Democratic Committee and also a lifelong town resident. Both are hoping to fill the soon-to-bevacant seat of Democrat Sandy Nafis, who has represented the district for the last eight terms and is retiring later this year. Byron, 44, owns Tone Zone, a wedding and event planning company that’s been in business Volume 54, No. 23
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in Newington since 1988. He also does the afternoon lottery drawing for Fox CT and has been involved with Newington Community Television since 2001. He currently hosts the show Connecticut Conversations, formerly known as Common Sense Connecticut. Byron is single and has no children. He’s decided to run because he’d like to make Connecticut a place people want to live and work. “The sad thing is that there’s young people leaving to find jobs and retirees are leaving because they can get a better deal elsewhere; I think that’s unacceptable,” Byron explained. “The middle class is being hurt and if we don’t change it we’ll be a state with two classes – the rich and the poor.” Lowering taxes, he added, is of
Newington residents and Spanish Honor Society inductees Angela Miguel and Logan Wolf.
NCHS inducts teens into honor societies
Four students were among the 27 inducted into Northwest Catholic High School’s World Language Honor Societies on May 21. Wethersfield resident Alicia Susi, Class of 2015, was inducted into the Latin Honor Society, while Wethersfield resident Carly Walsh, Class of 2015, and Newington residents Angela Miguel and Logan Wolf, both Class of 2015, were See BYRON, Page 4 inducted into the Spanish Honor
Society. Guest speaker John Cusson, Northwest Catholic’s Academic Dean, told the students, “Your language skills give you unique opportunities to learn about other countries. Use your language gifts to open windows to the world.” To qualify for membership, students had to be juniors or seniors carrying a 4.0 average in the language, as well as a minimum 3.0
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average in all other classes. Of the 27 inductees, 16 were inducted into the Spanish Honor Society, six into the Latin Honor Society, and five into the French Honor Society. Since 1961, Northwest Catholic’s mission has been to educate the whole person: mind, body, spirit, and soul. Enrollment for the Class of 2018 is now under way. A list of honor students is available at www.northwestcatholic.org.
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