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Back 2 school Friday, August 22, 2014
Several changes await pupils By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
When Newington schools open on Wednesday, Aug. 27, students are in for some big changes. “We’ve been busy,” an excited Dr. Bill Collins, school superintendent, said this week. Twenty-five lucky middle-schoolers will enter a brand new Biomedical Academy at Martin Wallace and construction on an Aerospace Academy at John Volume 54, No. 34
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School bus routes Pages 10-12 Wallace will begin in October, to open next fall. When third- and sixth-graders enter their classrooms they will each be handed new laptops, rolling out the district’s “one-to-one” technology initiative, which calls for a device for every student. Next year students in grades four and seven will receive laptops and the following year, grades five and eight. IPads issued to classrooms across the district two years ago will all be moved down to the kindergarten,
See CHANGES, Page 9
World War II veterans, some of whom took part in the battle for Iwo Jima, and family members take part in the Candlelight Ceremony of Remembrance at the Iwo Jima Memorial.
‘It was like going through the gates of Hell’ By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Next year will mark 70 years since the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima, but for New Britain resident Stanley Dabrowski it’s still all too real. “At age 90 you still remember,” he says. “You feel it, see it, hear it,
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the Iwo Jima Memorial this past weekend. “We experienced brutal, inhumane combat for 36 days and nights and I was hit twice,” he remembered. “It was like going through the gates of Hell and coming out and saying thank you See IWO JIMA, Page 7
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