Three Ways to Show Appreciation for Graduating Darien Students, Even If They’re Not Your Kids

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Every year, the Depot Youth Center provides balloons that graduating seniors find outside (see below for details), but two other ways of celebrating graduating students are also happening this year, when the pandemic can threaten spirits and will certainly change the traditional commencement event. First, An “adopt-a-senior” program for families with elementary and middle school students has been started where those families drop off “a homemade card or sign, a flower from the yard, or a small token at the student’s home,” according to an announcement in the Middlesex Parents Association newsletter. Families who sign up are assigned a student and given an address (in an email to be sent next week). The dropoffs are supposed to take place anytime in the five-day period from June 1 to 5. (See the announcement below.)

Second, Middlesex Middle School parents can order a yard sign from the Depot for graduating 8th graders who are going on to high school next year.

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Third Swastika Found at Middlesex, This One Drawn With an Eraser on a Desk — Officials Weigh In

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In the midst of activities at Middlesex Middle School meant to promote tolerance and educate students about the harmfulness and “impact of symbols and the language of hate,” another Nazi Swastika was recently found at the school, Principal Shelley Somers told parents. “It is with great concern and sadness that I report to you that we have found another swastika on campus,” Somers wrote in a Monday night email. “It was drawn on a desk with a pencil eraser.  A student saw it and immediately reported it to his teacher.” School officials and police couldn’t determine who was responsible for drawing it. Swastikas were first found at the school on Sept.

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Public Invited to Brown Bag Lunch with DHS, Middlesex Police Resource Officers, Oct 24 at Depot

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You can meet and talk with Darien’s two school resource officers, the police assigned to Darien High School and Middlesex Middle School, at a brown bag lunch on Oct. 24 at the Depot Darien Youth Center. You just need to register online — and bring your lunch. “Please join us for a brown bag lunch for an informal discussion with MMS Student Resource Officer [Stuart “Stu”] Schwengerer and DHS Student Resource Officer Bryan Wallman,” the Depot recently announced. The lunch starts at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct.

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Three Swastikas Drawn in Crayon on Window of Middlesex Middle School

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Someone drew three swastikas in crayon on an outside window of a first floor  Middlesex Middle School classroom on Monday, Sept. 9, according to school and police accounts. Police think the Nazi symbols were put there sometime between Tuesday and Friday, Sept. 6 to 9, according to an announcement from Sgt. James Palmieri, the department spokesman.

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18-Year Veteran Police Officer Appointed School Resource Officer for Middlesex Middle School

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Darien Police Officer Schwengerer has been selected as the Police Department’s first school resource officer (SRO) for Middlesex Middle School. Over the summer Schwengerer will be attending training through the National Association of School Resource Officers.  He will begin his assignment at Middlesex Middle School in late August. “The Darien Police Commission and I are very pleased with the selection of Officer Stu Schwengerer as the first SRO at Middlesex Middle School,” Police Chief Raymond Osborne said in a news release. “His previous training and experience, along with his positive attitude, make him a great choice for this position and I am excited to endorse him.”
Schwengerer has 18 years of law enforcement experience, most of which have been with the Darien police. Previously assigned to the Patrol Division, Schwengerer served in the United States Marine Corps and has an associate’s degree from Gateway Community College in New Haven.