Behind the Times

Tomorrow: It’s important to have GAELS

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Michael Ballway
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Featured on the Times & Courier’s April 24 front page is the GAELS program at Clinton High School: It’s not just the name of the mascot, it’s an acronym for Greatness in Athletics, Education, Leadership and Service.

The program awards high schoolers for excellence in pursuits that don’t always make the front page of a newspaper. For example, students we interviewed this week include a boy who helped start up the girls cross-country running team and a girl who volunteered at the town Historical Society.

(An aside: One of the constraints of printing news on dead trees is that we occasionally run out of space. That’s what happened this week. Reporter Jason Crotty’s story was edited down by a couple hundred words before it reached the press, but through the wonders of the Internet, you can read the full story in its electronic version tomorrow.)

Also on the front this week is the third in our series of interviews with Clinton’s selectmen candidates; an update on businesses eyeing Old Union Turnpike in North Lancaster; and a story on the old Bigelow Mills in Clinton, where a loft developer recently won a preservation award from the town Historical Commission.