John McCarthy shows off the cover for the “Little Rockers” program he is beginning this fall.
Coping with COVID: Getting creative
Here, students are engaged in sight word Bingo with their peers. It takes the traditional Bingo game and replaces the numbers with words, motivating the child to read the sight words! The perfect game for providing repetitive opportunities in a group setting while maintaining social distancing.
Coping with COVID: Getting creative
First grade students at Pagels Elementary School enjoying the weather during an outdoor lesson.
Coping with COVID: Getting creative
Teachers are creatively integrating technology into their lessons to encourage individual learning and knowledge retention. Students follow along with the teacher and collaborate on lessons such as short stories.
Coping with COVID: Getting creative
Some classrooms show students on touch screen laptops- marking, highlighting, and circling on their short stories.
Coping with COVID: Getting creative
Other classrooms show students listening to a story out loud on the projector and following along while answering questions. Classroom teachers at our various schools are adapting and using today’s circumstances to re-imagine education.
Ribbon cutting reopens city park
Mayor Nancy R. Rossi cuts the ribbon with 10th District Councilman Barry Lee Cohen, left, and Hubbard Family Association President Steven Johnstone to celebrate the reopening of Hubbard Farms Park in West Shore on Sept. 29
Abbott Park gardens spruced up
From left, West Shore residents Walker Perry, Heying Qian, Jim Greenberg, Carmela Livolsi, Anthony Marini, and Lalani and Steve Perry pause while sprucing up the gardens in Abbott Park on Oct. 3. The Ocean Avenue park’s spruce-up was led by Livolsi, who said the volunteer eff ort was “the epitome of West Haven pride.”
Editorial cartoon
Marking 65!
Roberta And Moses Douglas will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary, Oct. 22. Congratulations from Bryan, Brenda,
Curtis, Carmen, and granddaughter, Amber.
Westies fall in volleyball
Assia Ford attempts a kill in a recent match. School sports opened this month for the first time since March.
Pee Wees drop, 8 - 3, to New Haven
Zach Melchiore (39) of the West Haven Peewee A team chases down a loose puck in recent West Haven Youth Hockey action.
Sworn in
Mayor Nancy R. Rossi swears in Troy Tappin to the Board of Fire Commissioners of the City of West Haven Fire Department Allingtown on Oct. 6 at the World War I Armistice Memorial on the Green. Tappin, 57, of Josephine Avenue, was the second Allingtown resident sworn into the fire commission in just over two months.
Sworn in
Paul Sikorski Jr., 27, of Orange Terrace, was administered the oath of office by Rossi on July 30.
