Dump Truck Crash on I-84

(image courtesy Perry Smith via Courant.com)

Yesterday morning, a truck driver entered I-84 near Manchester without lowering his truck's bed. The bed caught on the bottom of an overhanging sign, yanking the truck into the air. The trucker, who was uninjured, was rescued about an hour later. No one else was hurt.

Help Wanted

The RHAM News team is looking to fill a few vacancies in next year's classes. Next year will bring several exciting changes to the Broadcast Journalism class. For starters, all shows will be presented live instead of recorded live-to-tape as is the current practice. More video content will be placed on the Internet. And, perhaps most importantly, we plan to offer college credit for juniors and seniors through articulation with Manchester Community College.

If you are a RHAM student interested in television, or if you are considering majoring in communications, stop by Guidance and see if you can get one of the remaining seats in Broadcast Journalism for 2009-10.

Questions? Email rhamtv@yahoo.com .

Early Graduation

Yesterday, RHAM High School hosted a ceremony honoring those students who graduated after the first semester of classes this year. These students included Jennifer Anderson, Bettina Neubauer, T.J. Tetrault, Kyle Mahoney, and Sheila Rujoub. The event took place immediately after school in the High School Library. Mr. Ruddick, an engineering teacher at RHAM gave the keynote address to the graduates, emphasizing the importance of planning for the future and always having a backup plan. About forty people attended the ceremony, most of them teachers and other staff members of the high school.

For more information, watch next week's edition of RHAM News.

Feature Story - Locker Theft

Story by Brian F. and Sean L. Originally aired on RHAM News on 3/3/09.

Search Called Off

The United States Coast Guard has officially called off their three day search for three missing boaters, including two NFL players. The search began early Sunday morning when the missing boaters did not return from their trip in Tampa, Florida. One of the four missing men, Former USF football player Nick Schuyler, was found Monday afternoon adrift on a small overturned fishing boat. He claimed that the four men had been together when their boat had been overturned. They eventually became seperated by the sea. As of sundown Tuesday night, the search for the missing boaters will officially be called off. Still missing is Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former University of South Florida football player William Bleakley. As reported by The United States Coast Guard, 200 ships have capsized within the last two months. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of those affected by this tragedy.

For more information, please visit http://www.cnn.com/

Popular Videogame Reaches One Billion Online Matches

Bungie, the designer of the popular Halo videogame series, reported that Halo 3 reached one billion matches online on Saturday night. Since the game's release, players around the world have clocked more than 64,000 years of playtime online, discounting offline play. This number represents a huge increase over the game's predecessor, Halo 2, which has logged about 800 million games.

Bungie points out in their news story that 64 millenia ago, there were no humans in Asia and Neanderthals still lived.

The billionth game, at 6:36 PM PST, was a 3:19 game of Infection on the Foundry map.

First Annual Prom Fashion Show

The junior class at RHAM high school is sponsoring the first annual prom fashion show. The show will be held on March 6th. The show starts at 6pm. The models of this fashion show will be RHAM students that will be wearing dresses supplied by Fairy Tales in Glastonbury. Their hair will be done at Capricorn I in Hebron, and their makeup will be done by Skintology in Hebron. There will also be companies there advertising limo services, hair and makeup, food, photography, and florist services.

Tickets will be sold at all three lunch waves. The tickets are $3 at the lunch waves, and $5 at the door. So if you want to get some ideas for prom dresses, or you want to check out some services to make the night even more special, come to the Prom Fashion Show on March 6th at RHAM high school.