Browse past news stories for Washington Middle School in Meriden, CT.

• Crossing guard summer employment made expenditures more productive (The Record-Journal)
  posted on October 7, 2009 at 12:16:06 am
  Johnathon Henninger / Record-Journal Crossing guard Sue Flynn directs traffic outside Washington Middle School in Meriden Tuesday. Instead of paying unemployment to the city’s 38 crossing guards over the summer, the city helped them find summer jobs in city departments.
• Building a bocce court with a bake sale (The Record-Journal)
  posted on August 6, 2009 at 03:08:23 am
  Johnathon Henninger / Record-Journal John Peach, a resident of Meriden Center, tosses a bocce ball in a loss against Mary LeVasseur, left, on Wednesday at the center’s new bocce court. Peach said he wasn’t on his game because he was worried that his prosthetic leg would be struck by lightning.
• Area Teenagers Finding A New Passion: Cooking (Hartford Courant)
  posted on August 5, 2009 at 09:24:50 pm
  If you want to know what's for dinner in the Braverman home in West Simsbury, you should check with Lauren, a 13-year-old who never misses an episode of " Rachael Ray" and loves to pull the chef's recipes off the Internet to make for her family.
• Everyone wins at Deptula Essay Contest (The Record-Journal)
  posted on May 13, 2009 at 03:25:35 am
  Johnathon Henninger / Record-Journal Jessica Deegan looks into the crowd at Lincoln Middle School waiting for her turn to read her speech, “Anything is Possible,” Tuesday night. The Washington Middle School student won first place.
• Grousing grows on Gravel Street (The Record-Journal)
  posted on April 21, 2009 at 03:25:06 am
  MERIDEN - It's been nearly a year since residents of Gravel Street first saw construction crews preparing to install a water main. As crews continue to work on the project, which was expected to be finished by December, some of the residents are joining together to demand a repaved road now.
• Good soup for a good cause (The Record-Journal)
  posted on April 2, 2009 at 06:09:24 pm
  By: Andrew Perlot, Record-Journal staff, 1:35 p.m. Andrew Perlot/Record-Journal Beth Donlon, chairperson of Washington Middle School's Bread and Broth Dinner, scoops out soup for hungry diners Wednesday.