Browse past news stories for Derby High School in Derby, CT.

• Derby celebrates exam high (Bury Times)
  posted on November 27, 2009 at 12:52:58 pm
  DERBY High School’s best-ever exam results were celebrated at a presentation evening in tribute to its 2009 leavers.
• Amelia laying foundation for new career (Bury Times)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 09:37:58 am
  A student is building her way to an exciting new career — as a female brickie.
• Engineering takes its place in Derby schools (The Wichita Eagle)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 06:06:08 am
  The Derby school district is leading the Wichita area in providing state-of-the-art engineering classes in middle and high schools, and it will lead the nation by being the first to offer the engineering classes at an elementary school.
• What's Cool In Your School (KAKE Wichita)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 04:04:29 pm
  A look at the Derby drama club
• PCC wins four matches against Bacone (The Pratt Tribune)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 08:48:44 pm
  A pin, two major decisions and a technical fall helped the Pratt Community College wrestling team battle NAIA power Bacone College to a 20-20 tie in their dual last night at the Beaver Dome.
• Demons take on dangerous Derby (The Dodge City Daily Globe)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 05:42:47 pm
      In this his fourth season at Derby High School, head coach Brandon Clark has built the Panthers into a winner.     Derby (7-3), which has advanced to the Class 6A state football playoffs in each of the last three seasons, entertain Dodge City (8-2) Friday night at Panther Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7.
• Sylvia Jean Hodges-Foos (Hutchinson News)
  posted on November 7, 2009 at 05:12:47 am
  HAVEN - Sylvia Jean Hodges-Foos, 66, died Nov. 5, 2009, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She wa ...
• Dobbs, Ansonia hammer Derby/O'Brien Tech (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 31, 2009 at 04:03:57 am
  DERBY -- Ansonia junior running back Montrell Dobbs played Pop Warner football in Derby when he was 7 years old for two years before his family moved to Ansonia.
• Schools bracing for second wave of swine flu (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 09:37:42 pm
  Shelton Intermediate School students can forget about the fall dance scheduled Friday, at least for now. Ditto for Friday's Homecoming Dance at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, as well as socials
• Derby looks for ways to improve student test scores (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 11:22:47 pm
  DERBY-- The results of the 2009 Connecticut Academic Performance Test brought some bad news to Derby High School Principal Fran Thompson, who presented the school's new CAPT attack plan at last
• Plea deal reached in sexual misconduct case (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 09:22:42 pm
  DERBY -- The trial of the city man accused of sexual misconduct with Derby High School students won't be starting after all as a plea deal has been accepted in the case.
• Former Youthville resdient Rocky Rockenbach returns to campus (The Newton Kansan)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 03:49:05 pm
  Growing up in a household where alcohol and rage were the norm, Rocky Rockenbach got a second chance when he was placed at Youthville in Newton. There, a woman named Mrs. Burton cared for the youngster when he was sick or needed a little TLC. Rocky returned to Youthville this year ...
• Disabled pupil calls on Tory leader to help fight for school's future (Bury Times)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 09:37:59 am
  A DISABLED pupil has asked Conservative leader David Cameron to help fight for the future of Radcliffe Riverside High School.
• Freshman kicker Engwall has found his place at SFA (The Daily Sentinel)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 02:20:12 am
  When the Stephen F. Austin football staff offered its latest placekicker a scholarship, the prospect had to research SFA, the Southland Conference and Nacogdoches to learn about the place he might call home.
• Online courses start to click at area high schools (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 12:23:34 am
  TRUMBULL -- Whenever period "D" rolls around on her class rotating schedule, Yoona Kim, 17, slips into the St. Joseph High School library, dons headphones and sits in front of a computer screen to
• Deputy was quiet, funny, passionate about his work (The Wichita Eagle)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 12:19:05 pm
  Brian Etheridge was a quiet man, but that was on the surface.
• Remembering Deputy Brian Etheridge (KAKE Wichita)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 11:38:51 pm
  Those who knew Deputy Brian Etheridge said he was a well-liked and dedicated young man with a smile that could light up a room. He will be greatly missed.
• Memorial Fund In Place For Fallen Sedgwick County Deputy (KAKE Wichita)
  posted on September 28, 2009 at 05:09:08 pm
  Donations can be made at any Intrust Bank location to the Brian S. Etheridge Memorial Fund.
• VIDEO: Top 5 High School Football Poll - 9/21/09 (New Haven Register)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 07:39:32 am
  Register football writer Mike Pucci breaks down the top five teams in this week's Register high school football poll.
• Debaters to address poverty rate, hunger issues (The Augusta Daily Gazette)
  posted on September 18, 2009 at 03:11:21 pm
  In the year 2006 the poverty rate in this country was at 36 million, and experts say today it is over 40 million. Twenty-two percent of all school age children arrive in the morning hungry. These are the issues the debate squad at Augusta High School will be tackling with this year’s resolution.  
• Schools chief wants an end to building delay (Bury Times)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 11:07:58 am
  Schools Secretary Ed Balls has raised concerns about the plans to build a new school in Radcliffe.
• Ventilation problems spark two fires in Derby (Connecticut Post)
  posted on September 14, 2009 at 05:37:53 pm
  DERBY -- Firefighters were kept busy Monday morning with back-to-back fire calls: one at Derby High School, the other at Derby Cellular Products. At 8:57 a.
• Goessel teaching staff has three fresh faces (Hillsboro Star-Journal)
  posted on August 26, 2009 at 03:39:55 pm
  Goessel schools open Thursday, and three teachers will be among the new faces: John Bergin, Derrick Birdsell, and Renae Peters. John Bergin is the new agriculture teacher for Goessel. He graduated from Kansas State University in May after completing his student teaching at Southeast of Saline.
• Kansas teen enjoys national Miss competition (The Pratt Tribune)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 09:55:26 pm
  One of her goals is to one day be crowned as Miss America. At 16, Chelsea Chilcott already has a state title to her credit and experience at a national pageant. She claims no disappointment with her finish at the Miss America Outstanding Teen competition earlier this month in Orlando, Fla. She earned no special awards and no top-10 selection, but a sense of the level to which she must perform to ...
• Stimulus means more $ for schools, strings attached (Connecticut Post)
  posted on August 23, 2009 at 10:44:35 pm
  It's like winning the lottery, but then being told how the money has to be spent.Even so, Derby Superintendent of Schools Stephen Tracy will take the $565,684 his district is getting for tutoring,
• SFA to scrimmage at 7 tonight (The Daily Sentinel)
  posted on August 22, 2009 at 05:04:34 am
  With his football team's season opener with SMU two weeks away, J.C. Harper likes the look of the SFA Lumberjacks.
• Teen defends ‘catch a bus’ award scheme (Bury Times)
  posted on August 21, 2009 at 11:16:18 am
  A TEENAGER has defended a scheme which rewarded him with a certificate for successfully catching a bus.
• A-level results: What next? (BBC News)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 06:11:15 pm
  Thousands of students received their A and AS-level results on Thursday. Competition for UK university places is tougher this year, there are around 60,000 more applicants which is a 10% rise on 2008. Not every student has managed to secure the place that they hoped for.
• Kansas High School Teachers Are Heading to Classrooms This Fall with New Techniques to Bring Shakespeare to Students (Kansas City InfoZine)
  posted on August 15, 2009 at 03:26:15 pm
  If you hear Kansas high school students hurling insults at one another in English or drama classes this fall, just remember that their teachers may be encouraging them.
• The Garden City Telegram (Garden City Telegram)
  posted on August 14, 2009 at 09:03:52 pm
  The Garden City Telegram online edition features local Kansas news, national news, sports, business news, videos, local classifieds and obituaries. The Telegram serves southwest Kansas and is located in Finney County.