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.

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 ...

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.

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 Trailblazers were named the new mascot for Killingly High School at the board of education meeting June 25.

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 ...

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 ...

And this week, at a contentious five-hour meeting, the board voted 5 to 4 to reinstate Redmen, which first became the school mascot in 1939. The board turned aside pleas from students ...

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 ...

Should the Redmen, the school's mascot since the early 1940s, be retired or kept? These are just two questions the Iron County Board of Education is weighing after launching a review in November.

Less than a year after a school board in Connecticut removed a high school’s “Redmen” mascot, arguing it was racist, it voted last week to restore the mascot, according to reports.