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 most consistent story detailing how the mascot was chosen comes from June Thorley, whose late husband recommended the Redmen name when CHS became an official high school in 1942.

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 ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...