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• EAST WINDSOR: Rail boost could help Warehouse Point ................p. 4 • ELLINGTON: Selectmen seek state trooper for schools ......................p. 7 • ELLINGTON: Series of talks helps parents with tweens and teens ............p. 8 • ELLINGTON: Winter Farmers’ Market proving popular ..............p. 9 • ENFIELD: Town moves closer to full-day kindergarten ................p. 13 • SOMERS: YMCA Camp bought with state funds ................................p. 17 • SUNDAY DRIVE: To Infinity and beyond with great food ..............p. 25 •STAFFORD: Sunday Night Coffee House lineup ..................................p. 29 •STAFFORD: Town works with Ashford after fire......................................p. 30 •CLASSIFIEDS:.....................pp.34-35
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Fond Thoughts of Fermi High By Linda Tishler Levinson
ENFIELD — As the town prepares to consolidate its two high schools, Enrico Fermi High School staff members and former students say they will always have fond memories of the school. On Nov. 6, residents voted to expand and renovate Enfield High School. The project, which involves the closing of Fermi and the creation of one consolidated school, is expected to be completed by September 2017, Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Schumann said, adding it could open as early as December 2016 if additional funding comes through. Built in 1971, the school was named for Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the artificial radioactivity produced by neutron and for nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons, according to nobelprize.org.
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