Due to her grit and perseverance, sophomore Emily Paseos was recently awarded the Girl Scouts Gold Award for creating a passport program for children at the Polish Center in Chicopee, Mass., which solved the one problem that she faced growing up: boredom and complaints.  Growing up, Emily and her family would visit this Polish Center […]

The girls’ varsity lacrosse team experienced several losses, finishing the season 2-10-0; still, the girls embody what it means to be a Wyvern by displaying perseverance. Led by Co-captains junior attacker Scarlett Bourgoin, junior goalie Sarah Balag, and junior defender Ellory Goodhue, the girls push the team to put up a fight against every opposing […]

A room packed to the brim with students and teachers, bubbles and golden gumballs falling from the ceiling. With music circulating energy over audience members, this long-awaited day for Kingswood Oxford’s a capella groups finally arrived. On Saturday, April 25, KO a capella students traveled to Millbrook School for the annual Golden Lips a capella […]

At 6:00 p.m. on Monday, April 17, faculty, alumni, and the KO News staff gathered in the Community Commons for the annual Warren Baird Journalism Dinner. The dinner was named by KO News alumni in honor of longtime KO News faculty advisor and English teacher, Warren Baird. This year’s dinner was different than in years […]

Bringing a real tragedy to the stage is no easy task, especially when it is rooted in local history. But, that’s just what TheaterWorks has done with their latest production, ‘Circus Fire,’ which focuses on the horrific 1944 circus fire in Hartford. This production successfully immerses the audience in local history through lighting and projections, […]

The Kingswood Oxford Middle School concert band went on a field trip to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. on a morning in early November. All 28 students in the band attended the field trip. The trip was three hours long, as there was a one-hour bus ride to and back […]