Avon News

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The Farmington Valley Chorus of Simsbury will travel to Hawaii in November to compete in the Sweet Adelines international competition.

Knit more for less!! Knit & Pearls is announcing their Spring Fling Yarn, Pattern and Sample Sale.

A 26-year-old Connecticut man has been sentenced to life in prison for the March 2011 kidnapping and murder of a female co-worker in Rhode Island.

Raymond J. Sprague , senior vice president of Small Commercial insurance for The Hartford, will be a featured speaker at the Tenth Annual Partners in Achievement Breakfast to support the financial literacy, workforce readiness and entrepreneurship programs of Junior Achievement.

Avon's Drama Club has had no shortage of fairy tales this year. Here Gracie Fumic as Belle and Matt Spiroff as The Beast dance together during the school's production of "Beauty and the Beast" in March.

Tuesday: The Bridgeport Bluefish return home for a series against the Camden Riversharks at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard.

Several high school students made headlines when the Eagle's Nest newspaper, Avon High School's student newspaper, took the second place honors in the Ohio Scholastic Media Association's statewide competition.

AVON - The first visual concepts for the city's new $32 million middle school show a large, attractive red brick building with two-story wings to either side of a central, canopied entrance.The drawings were released during a recent Board of Education meeting, according to Superintendent Mike Laub."These are essentially drafts at this point," ... (more)

The National Association of Letter Carriers' annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive will be on May 11 and non-perishable food that is collected that day in Avon and Simsbury will be given to Gifts of Love.

Currently By Carrier, one of the leading custom home builders in Connecticut, has two plots remaining at the planned family community of Berkshire Crossing in Avon.

Avon School District released exterior drawings for the proposed middle school expected to be ready for the 2015-16 school year.

The Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra will honor Margaret Colavecchio Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra Person of the Year at its May 4 concert at the Avon Senior Center.

The tenth Annual Partners in Achievement Breakfast to support the financial literacy, workforce readiness and entrepreneurship programs of Junior Achievement will be held on Friday, May 17 at the Hartford Marriott Downtown.

We often see houses of worship as fixtures on the landscape and in our lives. Yet more than a score of them in Connecticut's urban, suburban and rural areas are for sale or seeking new uses because although pulpits teach that God is eternal, places consecrated for prayer are not.

The town's high school has once again ranked in the top ten high schools in the state in this year's U.S. News and World Report's best high schools ranking.