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In this blog, The Middletown Press staff will present pieces of stories from its archives. The blog will be spear-headed by reporter and editorial assistant Jonetta Badillo.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Clinton students returned from a vacation to learn of two tragedies; Old Saybrook school board pushed for the reopening on a junior high school

25 Years Ago: Clinton Eliot School students returned from vacation today in the wake of two tragedies. Eighth grader Jeffery Guidi was killed when a state police cruiser on call crashed into a station wagon carrying Guidi, his two sisters and two other Morgan School students on Route 17 in Durham.

25 Years Ago: A late-night discussion by the Old Saybrook Board of Education produced a five-member consensus that called for the reopening of the former Junior High School.