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GHS Band Pops Concert Set for June 7, Final Concert Performance of the Year

Enjoy a midweek evening taking in the enjoyable sounds of the Greenwich High School Percussion and Jazz Ensembles, Jazz Lab, Concert and Combined Bands under the direction of John Yoon, Director of Bands and Ben Walker, Associate Director of Bands. The performance starts at 7:30pm on Wednesday, June 7. The entertaining evening will be special, as it will not only be the last concert performance of the year but it will be a time to honor the 24 graduating seniors. The Pops evening will begin with the Percussion Ensemble’s performance of Valley of Napal by Chris Brooks. The exotic melodies and syncopated rhythms work hand in hand in this hard grooving piece. Continue Reading →

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Making the Historic Merritt Parkway Safer for People and Trees Alike

In 2000, two Greenwich High School seniors, volunteering for the Red Cross, were killed when their Jaguar coupe slid off the parkway at a curve in the highway into a ditch, striking a tree resulting in their deaths.

Unfortunately, this was not a unique accident, but the culmination of a number of similar nonfatal accidents in that same section of the Merritt. Continue Reading →

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