Choate’s position in the Wallingford community creates a nuanced conflict for students who are a part of both worlds. Particularly amid the pandemic, the concerns of international students have been apparent — issues such as irregular schedules due to differences in time zones, or international travel. What is rarely focusedRead More

When Mr. Mitch Gibbs, Director of the Wallingford Animal Shelter, thinks about local animal conservation, he thinks of the time a town resident reported a stray cat he’d seen on his security footage. The cat had an infected wound encircling three quarters of his neck, and Mr. Gibbs reported thatRead More

“Animals are my passion,” Ms. Jackie Richo said when asked about her role as the founder of Friends of the Wallingford Animal Shelter (FWAS), a 501c nonprofit organization established to provide support for the local animal Shelter. Ms. Richo, who once dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, created the nonprofit inRead More

The Johnson Mansion, a historic building in Wallingford with a lesser known connection to enslaved people in Connecticut. Although the Wallingford 350th anniversary Jubilee was cancelled in 2020, the town embarked on a different significant project to commemorate the town’s history: “Enslaved Wallingford: The Missing Chapter of Our American Narrative.”Read More

Sacred Heart Academy recently defeated Lyman Hall 92-4. On January 3, Wallingford high school Lyman Hall was defeated, 92-4, in a varsity basketball game against Sacred Heart Academy (SHA), a Catholic girls’ high school in Hamden. While the 88 point difference drew national attention and criticism — including an articleRead More

The Special Olympics is “the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities,” according to its website.The organization provides training and activities year-round to 5,000,000 participants in 172 countries. Special Olympics Connecticut is one of the many branches of the organization and operates around theRead More

On Friday, December 3, Wallingford residents flooded Main Street and Center Street for the Wallingford Holiday Stroll. Festive lights lit up storefronts and sidewalks, and people of all ages greeted store owners and carolling children. The event began 12 years ago as a way for the town to celebrate theRead More

On November 24, a new variant of Covid-19 — Omicron — was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). First detected in specimens collected on November 11 in Botswana, the WHO classified the variant as a Variant of Concern (VOC) on November 26. On December 10, the Connecticut Department ofRead More

November nationally commemorates Native American Heritage Month. This November, the deep history of Indigenous peoples in Connecticut is being honored by regional institutions and community organizations. Before Connecticut was a British colony, the region was inhabited by Native tribes: the Nipmuc, the Sequin (consisting of the Tunxis, Schaghticoke, Quinnipiac, Podunk,Read More