“I think especially after COVID there was a lot of rise in anxiety and students having a hard time coming to school,” Link Crew president Abbie Pratt said.

With a goal to help ease that anxiety, former senior Isabella Lango created the Newington High School Link Crew in 2024. Her post as president is now held by Abbie Pratt who experienced similar worries entering her freshman year.

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“A lot of academic anxiety and there were so many clubs and there were so many opportunities, but it was really daunting to put yourself in there and do that yourself and to join those things, especially if I didn’t know people in the club or making those connections,” Pratt said.

Now Pratt and about 40 other students who call themselve

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