Browse past news stories for Central High School in Bridgeport, CT.

• Winning not the true measure of success for these football players (Connecticut Post)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 05:37:42 pm
  When Franky Lopez first set foot on a Pop Warner football field, he couldn't run half a lap. On that long-ago day, the pudgy 7-year-old from Bridgeport had an asthma attack and couldn't do situps
• Radon remediated at Bridgeport schools (Connecticut Post)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 10:07:43 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- Work began Monday to get rid of high levels of radon detected in a dozen city schools, starting with the Central High School library.School officials said Connecticut Basement Systems
• Norwalk boys soccer falls in the opening round of FCIACs, turns attention to states (The Norwalk Citizen)
  posted on November 6, 2009 at 06:43:00 pm
  BRIDGEPORT- The Bears kept the pressure on - coming up with shot after shot and run after run deep in Bridgeport Central's half of the field.
• Tuesday sectional semifinal roundup (Effingham Daily News)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 05:43:16 am
  Area prep volleyball roundup from Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009.
• Candidate Q & A: New Britain Common Council (Republican) (The New Britain Herald)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 04:28:14 pm
  The New Britain Herald has asked the candidates in the municipal elections questions on the issues facing our communities.
• South Central claims Dieterich Regional title (Effingham Daily News)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 06:43:36 am
  For the first time since 2004, South Central High School has secured a regional volleyball championship.
• Staples Boys Soccer Roars Into FCIAC Finals (WestportNow)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 05:24:05 am
  Mikey Fitzgerald’s powerful second-half header tonight propelled Westport’s Staples High School boys soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Greenwich and into the FCIAC final.
• In slain student's memory, they marched for peace (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 31, 2009 at 07:53:02 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- The dreary overcast and drizzle Saturday morning wasn't enough to keep dozens of high school kids from marching through the street to spread a message of peace.
• 15-year-old nabbed with loaded gun at Central High (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 31, 2009 at 04:07:52 am
  BRIDGEPORT -- A 15-year-old boy brought a loaded 9 mm handgun to Central High School on Friday morning, an incident that authorities say may be gang related.
• Loaded Gun Found In Bridgeport Student's Bag [WFSB] (Hartford Courant)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 05:45:39 pm
  p.copyright {display: none !important;} WFSB reports : A loaded gun was found in the backpack of a student at Central High School in Bridgeport Friday morning, police said.
• Extra security staff sought for Harding (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 05:22:42 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- Harding High School could use three more security guards and at least one more social worker, the school's principal told the Board of Education's Safety and Security Committee on
• Loaded Gun Found In Student's Bag (Eyewitness News 3 Hartford)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 02:51:05 pm
  A loaded gun is found the backpack of a student at a Bridgeport High School, prompting a lockdown.
• Lockdown lifted at Bridgeport school (WTNH-TV New Haven)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 02:34:03 pm
  A loaded gun was brought into a High School in Bridgeport and two students were taken into custody for the incident.
• Staples Boys Soccer Falls to Central (WestportNow)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 06:41:53 am
  An explosive Bridgeport Central High School team handed the Staples High School boys soccer team their only FCIAC regular season loss today on the final day of the regular season. The score was 2-0.
• GHS topped by Central 14-13 in key FCIAC battle (Greenwich Post)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 04:11:03 am
  It was the third and final game of the road trip that got the best of the Greenwich High School football team. On a cold and misty evening at Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport, Big Red’s offense was never able to get in sync.
• New Britain Common Council Republican Candidates (The New Britain Herald)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 02:07:59 pm
  The New Britain Herald has asked the candidates in the municipal elections questions on the issues facing our communities.
• Tests Show Elevated Radon In Schools (Eyewitness News 3 Hartford)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 12:20:48 am
  Recent tests for the presence of potentially dangerous radon gas in several buildings in the Bridgeport school district reveal that some schools have more of it than the law allows.
• Months after unsafe radon is found at schools, letters sent to parents (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 10:22:42 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- Seven months after tests showed that 29 areas in 12 city schools have levels of radon that need remediation, letters are being sent home to parents in student backpacks, notifying them
• Unsafe radon levels found in Bridgeport schools (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 04:22:42 am
  BRIDGEPORT -- Fewer students are using the Central High School library lately, and it has nothing to do with hours of operation or lack of interest in reading.
• Ben Franklin, reaching across the centuries (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 04:53:07 am
  BRIDGEPORT ---- About 140 Central High School history students were transfixed Tuesday by one of the nation's greatest statesmen, Benjamin Franklin, as he recalled his lifetime as an inventor,
• Street smarts: Campaign gets dropouts back in class (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 10:22:42 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- To help convince dropouts to return to school during a recent door-to-door campaign, Assistant Superintendent of Schools Denise Clemons brought along the most persuasive person she
• Michael Jai White: The Black Dynamite Interview (BlackNews.com)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 10:22:11 pm
  Michael Jai White was born in Brooklyn, on November 10, 1967, but raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut where he attended Central High School.
• Homecoming Kings (Greenwich Post)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 10:19:07 pm
  While the threat of rain halted the annual parade down Greenwich Avenue for this year’s Greenwich High Homecoming festivities for the football team did its best to give the paying fans who braved a steady rain and several heavy downpours their money’s worth, blasting Warren Harding High School 41-0 at Cardinal Stadium Saturday afternoon.
• Michael Jai White: The 'Black Dynamite' Interview (Skanner)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 11:12:31 pm
  Michael Jai White was born in Brooklyn, on Nov. 10, 1967, but raised in Bridgeport, Conn., where he attended Central High School.
• Bridgeport's Columbus Day parade promotes diversity (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 11, 2009 at 09:37:42 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- They came with beach chairs, picnic blankets, walkers and wheelchairs. Throngs of Bridgeporters and suburbanites flocked to the Park City's Madison Avenue area on Sunday to celebrate
• Community activist wants what's best for the city (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 11, 2009 at 06:22:52 pm
  Jeff Kohut, 54, has been a life-long resident of Bridgeport's North End. The Wickliffe Circle resident has been coordinator of the Lake Forest Block Watch for more than a decade.
• Columbus parade Sunday in Bridgeport (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 07:37:43 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- The annual Columbus Day parade, sponsored by the Council of Italian-American Societies of Greater Bridgeport, steps off at 1p.m. Sunday at Wayne Street and Jewett Avenue.
• School officials talk truants into returning (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 3, 2009 at 10:52:42 pm
  BRIDGEPORT -- In another life, John DiDonato could have made a good living as a door-to-door salesman. On Saturday, the confident, soft-spoken school administrator exhibited that talent by talking
• Columbus Day parade planned (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 10:22:54 pm
  TRUMBULLFall Classic features bandsThe Trumbull High School Golden Eagle Marching Band's Fall Classic on Saturday will feature high school bands from the tristate area competing in this Musical
• Remembering Capitol Audio-Visuals (The Chattanoogan)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 02:49:25 am
  One of the problems as we grow older is that the things that we own grow older, too. The longer that we keep something, it becomes more challenging to find replacement parts.