Iron County’s school board will ask voters whether to reinstate Cedar High School’s mascot to “Redmen,” just five years after the board voted 3-2 to retire the mascot adopted in the 1940s.

Unlike related controversies over the University of Utah Utes mascot, Redmen is not the name of a tribe or nation, but an explicitly racial description of skin color, Nielsen said.

But in a departure from the trend, officials in Killingly, Conn., voted on Wednesday to reinstate the “Redmen” as the local high school’s mascot, over objections from the Mashantucket Pequot ...

Muscara said that images of the Redmen mascot — a man in profile, wearing a feathered headdress — are portrayed on the sports teams’ jerseys and throughout the school.

The Iron County School District voted 3-2 late Tuesday to remove the "Redmen" mascot from Cedar High School after years of controversy that peaked in 2016, when a video circulated showing the ...

KILLINGLY – A pair of students is soliciting feedback from peers, teachers and staff on the high school’s mascot – the Redmen – and whether it’s offensive. Superintendent of Schools Steve Rioux said ...

On Wednesday evening, the board voted 5-4, largely along party lines, to reinstate the Redmen mascot for Killingly High School. “You are all pulling the rug right from beneath us.

Cedar High School’s controversial “Redmen” mascot will be removed following a 3-2 vote of the Iron County School Board. The split vote came amid chants of “Vote ‘em out!” and angry ...

New Britain, CT – 12/14/19 – Killingly’s mascot is in limbo at the moment having gone from Redmen to Red Storm to now nothing. Photo by Brad Horrigan | [email protected] ...

(CNN) — Less than a year after voting to remove the name of a school mascot that some found racist, the school board of a small Connecticut town has voted to reinstate it. The Redmen, who became ...

The Redmen has been Killingly High School’s mascot for decades.. The earliest mention of the Redmen in the “Windham County Transcript” appeared on April 15, 1937.. The first yearbook illustration of ...

The Redmen mascot has also faced opposition from teachers and students, like school athletic director Kevin Marcoux, who reportedly spoke at the meeting and said his team had become the ...