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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Neither support the Redmen mascot.” Republican members who voted in favor of reinstating the Redmen title told CNN that they wanted to represent the majority opinion for the town.

Killingly, Connecticut, is ending the use of its school mascot. The Bulletin of Norwich reported that the community had a retirement celebration for the "Redmen" mascot and sold vintage football ...

The Redmen mascot’s days as the mascot of Killingly High School are numbered, again. Killingly Board of Education Chairperson Susan Lannon announced at a meeting Wednesday night that the Redmen ...