Class of 2020: Norwich Free Academy

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Congratulations NFA graduates. What a year.

Students and parents alike are confronting a life-changing pandemic, learning new concepts like social distancing and virtual learning. For many parents, it meant job losses, or, if they were fortunate, working from makeshift offices in their...

NFA Awards

This year, nearly 300 students have been recognized with awards of more than $430,000.

Class came together by being apart

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When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he'll tell you how he got to the present moment. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If...

Wildcats forever

Class of 2020, It feels amazing to be able to address you all, even if it can't be in person. Even though our final moments of our senior year had an unexpected ending, I’m happy to say we made it through to achieve our goals. For this to...

We lived through a time that will be in future history books

"For granted." Two simple words we hear almost every day. Two simple words I never thought so much about. I never sat down and thought exactly what I took for granted. Turns out, I took for granted small things that I thought were a given: going...

Adm. Papp: Choose to do things 'not because they are easy, but because they are hard'

As a sailor and professional mariner for most of my career, I learned very early that in order to safely navigate your ship, you rely on trusted landmarks to fix your position and avoid the rocks and shoals that you might encounter along your...