All posts tagged "featured"

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  WNBA

  / 6 years ago

  Concerned with COVID-19, Sun All-Star Jonquel Jones will sit out 2020 season

  The COVID-19 pandemic is keeping the Connecticut Sun’s All-Star center Jonquel Jones in the Bahamas this summer. Jones, who helped lead...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  News

  / 6 years ago

  Federal lawmakers criticize finding from DOE in CIAC transgender case

  Twenty-eight federal legislators have signed a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) criticizing them for...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  Baseball

  / 6 years ago

  After lost season, seniors on Avon baseball team shares memories

  AVON, June 15, 2020 – The sun was warm on Monday afternoon at Buckingham Field and the sky was filled with...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  PGA Golf

  / 6 years ago

  Plenty of top golfers will crowd the course at Travelers Championship

  CROMWELL, June 15 – Due to the COVID 15 pandemic, fans won’t be able to see in person eight of the...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  Football

  / 6 years ago

  Five linebackers from Simsbury’s 2019 squad to play in college

  SIMSBURY — Five senior linebackers with the Simsbury High football team will be playing college football this fall. Tommy Guilfoyle, Mohammed...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  News

  / 6 years ago

  Hundreds make their voices heard at protest rally in Collinsville

  CANTON, June 7, 2020 – There have been so many protests around the United States in the wake of the killing...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  News

  / 6 years ago

  Residents protest and take a stand for justice in Avon

  AVON, June 4, 2020 – Several hundred local residents stood along a quarter mile stretch of Route 44 on Thursday evening...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  Baseball

  / 6 years ago

  Vincent hopeful that two leagues will play baseball beginning in July

  SIMSBURY, June 3, 2020 — There could be some summer baseball in Connecticut in July if the leagues can meet the...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  News

  / 6 years ago

  More than a thousand peacefully protest in West Hartford

  WEST HARTFORD, June 2, 2020 – It’s been just over a week since George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man from Minnesota,...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
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  Pro Soccer

  / 6 years ago

  Hartford Athletic return to Dillon for practice with social distance

  HARTFORD, May 29 — The Hartford Athletic soccer team was days away from making United Soccer League (USL) Championship debut in...

  By Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press