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10 Staples Seniors Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists
WESTPORT, Conn. -- Staples High School in Westport announced that 10 seniors have been named finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Those students are: Jodie Baris, Hannah Debalsi, Arjun Dhindsa, Quinn Hughes, George Menz, Nicolas Ribolla, Aaron Samuels, Peter Sauer, Grant Tobben and Steven Xu.
To become a finalist, students met these criteria: outstanding academic record throughout high school; endorsement and recommendation by the school principal; SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier qualifying test performance. Semifinalists and a school official had to submi…
Danbury's WestConn Celebrates Women's History Month With Daylong Program
DANBURY, Conn. -- Western Connecticut State University will host a Women’s History Month program sponsored by the Women’s Center of Greater Danbury, the Danbury Public Library and the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. The full-day program will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, in the Student Center theater on Western’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury, and will conclude at the Danbury Library, 170 Main St., at 4 p.m.
The program is free and open to the public. Darla Shaw, an education and literary professor at WCSU, organized the program.
“People who attend will be tak…
