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ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.  This fall, ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ State Trumbull will be home to women’s and men’s cross country teams. It is the first competitive sport the school has offered since 1992 when it had basketball, volleyball and golf teams. The teams will compete against area colleges as a student organization under the leadership of volunteer head coach Bill Hess.  Lance Grahn, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ State Trumbull, hopes cross country and other sports teams will soon compete a...

While hundreds of applicants hoped to be selected to participate in the Sirenland Writers Conference, only a handful of them were chosen to attend the week-long event in Positano, Italy. James Winter, an English lecturer on the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ State Salem Campus, was one of 10 applicants selected for the fiction writing workshop last spring. To apply for the conference, Winter had to submit qualifying fiction writing. The conference limited its selection to 10 writers for each of three workshops in mixed-genre, fiction and memoir writing.   “In submitting work to my peers, I was doing ex...