Browse past news stories for Hall High School in West Hartford, CT.

• Hall High Students Balk At $25 Activity Fee (Hartford Courant)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 01:32:15 pm
  Some Hall High School students don't want to pay up.
• Vinal/Coginchaug on playoff path (The Middletown Press)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 05:45:20 am
  Here’s a sentence most local football fans likely thought they might never read: Vinal/Coginchaug’s football team has a legitimate chance to go the state championship playoffs.
• On AP Tests, Hall Excellent; Conard Numbers 'Freakish' (Hartford Courant)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 09:45:58 am
  It looks like a computing mistake at first.
• BRANSFIELD: Falcons need to ‘show up and play football’ tonight against Notre Dame (The Middletown Press)
  posted on September 25, 2009 at 06:59:34 am
  The second week of the season is early to talk about big games, but certainly Xavier’s home game tonight with Notre Dame of West Haven qualifies as exactly that. Vinal/Coginchaug’s game Saturday against Hyde Leadership of New Haven qualifies as a big game, too.
• Hall Honoring Unbeaten '75 Team (Hartford Courant)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 09:56:17 am
  The 1975 Hall High School football team will be honored Saturday at halftime of the Warriors' game against Middletown at Robert S. Chalmers Stadium in West Hartford.
• South Church series opens soon (The New Britain Herald)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 09:28:19 pm
  NEW BRITAIN — Nights are getting cooler, leaves are changing color, and every city resident knows what that means: the Music Series at South Church has put out its 2009-10 season calendar. All but one of the six main concerts scheduled have free admission (though “free will donations” are always gladly accepted).
• West Hartford Schools Told They Need To Improve (Hartford Courant)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 10:00:40 am
  Within the next month, parents should expect to receive a state-mandated letter from the school district indicating it is "in need of improvement" for the fifth year under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
• High school football season kicks off (WTNH-TV New Haven)
  posted on September 18, 2009 at 06:19:03 pm
  Players, coaches and fans are pumped up for the first week of high school football.
• Forty Percent of CT Schools Fale (See: Greenwich and West Hartford) (NBC Connecticut)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 10:25:34 pm
  That whole No Child Left Behind thing has left some schools failing. And by some, we mean 40 percent.
• Children being left behind (WTNH-TV New Haven)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 12:04:03 pm
  A report released today by the state Department of Educations says 40 percent of the state's public schools failed to meet performance standards this year under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
• 40 percent of Conn. schools fail to make the grade (Boston Globe)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 11:56:38 am
  Connecticut education officials say 40 percent of the state's public schools failed to meet performance standards this year under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
• Report: 40 Percent of Conn. Schools Fail Performance Standards (Hartford Courant)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 04:15:49 am
  Some of the state's prestigious high schools, including Hall High School in West Hartford, Glastonbury High School and Greenwich High School, have been put on the state's "needs improvement" list because they failed to meet yearly benchmarks under No Child Left Behind, according to a report released Tuesday.
• Back to school: New teachers, technology, classes greet Darien High students (The Darien Times)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 10:14:46 am
  TUESDAY — Small, but still significant improvements and additions will greet Darien High School students when they return to classes next week.
• Woodstockers stay groovy 40 years later (The Record-Journal)
  posted on August 16, 2009 at 01:23:23 am
  Rob Beecher / Record-Journal James Benn covered Woodstock in 1969 as a reporter for the Meriden Journal. Forty years later, in his Hadlyme home, he points to a screenshot of the movie, Woodstock, in which he's seen in the front row watching Country Joe and the Fish perform.
• Peter Fappiano, 78 North Haven (New London Day)
  posted on August 13, 2009 at 01:15:06 pm
  Peter Fappiano, 78, of 36 Nida Drive, North Haven, died Aug. 4 at the Hospital of St. Raphael, with his loving son and daughter by his side. He was the husband of the late Eleanor I. DeMarco Fappiano. Born in New Haven on May 4, 1931, he was the son of the late George and Carmel Cleto Fappiano. He had worked for Brockway-Smith for many years until his retirement and had served his country ...
• West Hartford Day Camp Teaches Kids With Disabilities How To Ride Two Wheelers (Hartford Courant)
  posted on August 7, 2009 at 10:37:01 am
  His parents needed bribes of ice cream — usually vanilla — to lure a reluctant Kyle Zachs Monday to a day camp where children with disabilities learn how to ride two-wheeled bicycles.
• WWII bomber offers tour of Hartford (Boston Globe)
  posted on August 1, 2009 at 07:59:36 pm
  From the nose of the Liberty Belle, there's little separating a rider from the stunning views of the capital city as the plane careers over the Hartford skyline.
• Master Chef, Master Musician, Master Teacher (Hartford Courant)
  posted on July 25, 2009 at 11:29:22 pm
  Fredric "Fritz" Moses was a singer, a music teacher and a gourmet cook who grew his own herbs and made his own pasta. For years, he was a single dad raising his daughter, until a teacher's conference provided him with a girlfriend, and ultimately, a wife.
• For Wavy Gravy, Vibes is his groove (Connecticut Post)
  posted on July 25, 2009 at 03:32:08 am
  BRIDGEPORT -- In this, the 40th anniversary season of Woodstock, this weekend's Gathering of the Vibes has many connections to the famed festival. Bob Weir of Ratdog was there with The Grateful Dead.
• Controlling, Out Of Control (New London Day)
  posted on July 19, 2009 at 10:27:58 am
  In the midst of the hostage crisis in South Windsor, Richard J. Shenkman told a police negotiator that if anyone entered the house where he was holding his ex-wife captive they would have a “Mexican standoff,” where no one would emerge a winner. Over the past three years, the 60-year-old Shenkman, once a prominent advertising and public relations executive, appears to have devoted himself to ...
• At 19, Getting A Poker Education (Hartford Courant)
  posted on July 17, 2009 at 11:08:41 am
  WEST HARTFORD — There is no cigar smoke. There is no beer. There is no pizza. Dan Couzens boots his computer in the bedroom of his stylish sublet apartment near Blue Back Square, clicks to Full Tilt Poker.com and a few minutes into this pursuit of Texas Hold 'Em one matter becomes evident.
• Jewish Community Foundation awards scholarships (Jewish Ledger)
  posted on June 24, 2009 at 05:25:48 pm
  Two graduating seniors at William Hall High School in West Hartford were selected to receive scholarships from the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF). The students were selected based on academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities and financial need.
• Brandwein-Plourde wedding (The Standard-Times)
  posted on June 7, 2009 at 05:05:41 am
  BELMONT — Anna Rose Plourde and Matthew Lev Brandwein were married June 8, 2008, at the Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary by Rabbis Marci Jacobs and James Rosen.
• Locals still alive in boys Class L tennis tourney (The Bristol Press)
  posted on June 6, 2009 at 02:09:16 pm
  BRISTOL — Friday’s rain put off nine Class L boys tennis matches featuring 13 Bristol players.
• Wave Takes Win Over Spartans (The New Milford Times)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 03:45:51 pm
  The New Milford boys tennis team beat the rain to get in its last match of the regular season last Thursday, a non-leaguer against Shepaug Valley, and won, 6-1.
• Connecticut Schools Suspension Numbers Down (Hartford Courant)
  posted on June 4, 2009 at 10:38:23 am
  A new discipline report shows the number of students who have been suspended from the town's middle and high schools has declined.
• Kolot: Eve Soumerai continues to spread a message of hope and tolerance (Jewish Ledger)
  posted on May 19, 2009 at 02:40:28 pm
  WEST HARTFORD - Author and educator Eve Soumerai has spent a lifetime teaching Hartford area school children not only about the Holocaust, which she survived by fleeing on the Kindertransport, but also about its lessons; the imperative to overcome bigotry and injustice and build a world free of hate and filled with hope.
• Independence Day in West Hartford (Jewish Ledger)
  posted on May 19, 2009 at 02:38:16 pm
  The Jewish Student Union at Hall High School in West Hartford celebrated "Yom Ha'atzmaut" with a program that featured live music and falafel.
• Tech-Savvy Teen Drug Dealer Gets One Year In Prison (Hartford Courant)
  posted on May 5, 2009 at 11:09:03 am
  Mass E-Mails, Text Messages Tied 18-Year-Old To Marijuana Sales A West Hartford teenage drug seller who police say alerted potential buyers by e-mail received a year in prison for selling marijuana.
• Shauli Einav Quartet to headline in West Hartford on April 26 (Jewish Ledger)
  posted on April 24, 2009 at 05:26:40 pm
  WEST HARTFORD - Renowned musician and composer Shauli Einav will headline an evening of jazz at the Mandell Jewish Community Center on Sunday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. Einav will be joined on stage by other emerging stars in the world of jazz, including, Aaron Goldberg on piano, Omer Avital on bass, and Dan Aran on drums.