LIFE

Kris DeLeo came to town at the start of the 2025-2026 academic year to fill a vacancy for principal at Highcrest School. She is learning about the school and community and is confident that she made a wise choice.

The Wethersfield High School drama program’s spring musical is “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a Canadian musical comedy featuring music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

Daniel Dias spent the past nine-and-a-half years as the principal of a middle school. Now he’s an administrator for an entire district. His new official job title is assistant superintendent for human capital development. The primary focus is all things involving faculty, administrators and staff

It started with the simple idea of helping residents pay for college, trade school or other post-secondary education. That’s still the mission six decades later. As today’s officers and board members reflected on 60 years of giving away money, they can see the fruits of all that labor. NSAF has granted more than 1,500 interest-free loans to more than 1,000 residents since its founding in 1966 by a partnership of the Newington Jaycees, school PTA members and civic leaders.

When you spot the red Jeep at the intersection of Powder Horn Dr. and Squadron Line Rd. in Simsbury at either 8:30 a.m. or 3:30 p.m., you’ll know Miss Michele is here – Michele Abbott, that is. Her post is just up the hill from Squadron Line Elementary School, where she’s been a crossing guard since 2014.

Board of education chairman Douglas C. Foyle hangs a school calendar on a wall in his house and looks forward to the end of each month. “It’s always exciting to flip that calendar to the next month and see what the next month has,” he said.

Each year Mock Trial Team students at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford argue a legal case to compete with other teams in front of real judges. The competition represents months of work because each student team must argue against both sides of a case (prosecution and defense) as attorneys and witnesses.

Literacy is considered a key component of early education so it was no surprise that Edna C. Stevens School hosted a Literacy Night the evening of Feb. 6.