Summer hours
WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Academy Main Office and Counseling Office has switched to summer hours: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Summer office hours end Aug. 17. Guidance counselors have scheduled office hours throughout the summer. Please call the counseling office at (860) 928-6575 ext. 1120 to make an appointment.
Current students and parents should expect to receive communication throughout the summer through email.
Incoming students should expect to initially receive communication through the mail to set up their student email and network accounts.
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Wins Award
Boy Scout Abram Nichols, center, won the Four Star Award. On left is Gregory Nichols and on the right is Bill Senecal. Courtesy photo.
PUTNAM — Boy Scout Troop 25 member Abram W. Nichols of Putnam has earned his Four Star Award, the Connecticut Rivers Council announced.
Nichols just completed his junior year at Putnam High School and has been an active troop member for the past eight years. He was presented this honor at the troop’s Parents’ Night June 13 by Bill Senecal. P.R.A.Y. (Programs of Religious Activities with Youth) is a religious emblems program that partners with nonprofit youth organizations and protestant churches.
Unlike many Boy Scout honors, this award takes many years to complete and requires support from a both a mentor and church clergy. Nichols is a member of Christ Church Pomfret (Episcopal), and was supported by Fr. David Carter throughout his service and outreach requirements. Scouts begin in early elementary school with the “God and Me” program, doing Bible study, reflections and projects. They continue through middle and high school with “God and Family”, “God and Church”, and finally “God and Life”. Only those who complete all four levels can earn the Four Star Award, and Abram was the first scout to earn this in the entire state in 2017.
Graduates
WEST POINT, N.Y. — Cadet Zachary Edwin Wilcox, son of Edwin and Cheryl Wilcox of Pomfret Center, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy May 27, 2017.
Wilcox graduated from Woodstock Academy in 2011.
While at West Point, he concentrated his studies in American politics. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army within the Engineers branch and will report to Fort Drum, N.Y., for his first assignment.
The mission of the U.S. Military Academy is to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.
Clockwise from top left: radishes from Barton Farms in Hampton. Snap peas from Unbound Glory and Abington Grown. Spring (lighter) and fall honey from Maple Brook Farms. The farmers market on Kennedy Drive. Green garlic from Unbound Glory and Abington Grown. Lettuce from Barton Farms.