Killingly
Americannoun
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Yet, during all of its demonic high jinks — the trail of eye-gougings and child-murders which the killingly suave warlock leaves in his wake — not a trace of originality is allowed to interfere.
From Los Angeles Times
KILLINGLY, Conn. — One evening in March, a high school senior named Sydney Zicolella stood before the school board in this rural, blue-collar Connecticut town and described her psychiatric history, beginning in the sixth grade, when she was “by definition, clinically depressed.”
From New York Times
This debate has divided Killingly, and its families, since January, when Robert J. Angeli, the superintendent of schools, presented a plan to open a state-funded mental health clinic in the high school.
From New York Times
In March, Killingly’s board members rejected the plan by a vote of 6 to 3.
From New York Times
But it was a major sticking point for Norm Ferron, one of the Killingly board members, who said the arrangement would “give a student a lot more access to counseling without seeking parental approval, and I’m not real keen on that.”
From New York Times
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