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Memo: “N-Word” Principal Could Be Fired
The attorney, Tom Mooney of the firm Shipman & Goodwin, offered that counsel to the schools administration in a May 18 memo.

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The attorney, Tom Mooney of the firm Shipman & Goodwin, offered that counsel to the schools administration in a May 18 memo.

The department currently has nine lieutenant positions open.
The city last appraised 424 Chapel St. as worth $2,523,900.
The occasion was a gathering of refugees and community members in East Rock Park to celebrate World Refugee Day.
The report concerns two incidents in March involving Laura Roblee, at the time the principal of Pre-K-8 Brennan-Rogers School in West Hills.
Yet another batch of apartments are on tap for Wooster Square's expanding downtown edge — and a closed road will reopen.
'There was no communication to our staff; we were and still are completely left in the dark.'
Elicker responded that he is pushing behind the scenes for public release of the full investigatory report leading to the demotion.
The filing comes in the federal case Murphy Medical Associates LLC v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company.
Rev. Quavon Newton spoke Wednesday at the James Hillhouse High School graduation he never had.
Richard Whitaker Jr. watched a gunman shoot his brother dead in the Hill. Tuesday night, he, too, was shot dead on the neighborhood streets.
The city cut the ribbon Wednesday on 30 new “affordable” apartments on the street, inside the rehabbed former Welch Annex School.
Herschel Wadley's name was on two agendas Tuesday.
“You can do better,” Tony Coleman's aunt told him.
Addie Kimbrough envisioned a community garden in the vacant plot of land opposite her house where neighborhood kids and seniors could plant.
Laura Roblee was first placed on leave in late March pending an investigation into her alleged use of a racial slur.
Firefighters and their families gathered in First Calvary Baptist Church to attempt to quell a “fire within.”
DESK’s drop-in facility is open Sunday to Friday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
That public official/private landlord is Alexandra Daum.
So, if there was no vote Thursday night, what did happen? And why did the meeting matter at all?