Which school will be next to get a P5 invite?

[DarthGrumpy]

I went to a Shelton/Derby game in the early 70's and 5 or 6 Derby starters were related to me. That was the valley.
My Derby grandmother who didn't. know a football from a footstool would give me grief if Derby won. My dad was a Derby guy but kept it quiet he was outnumbered. You could get a line on any valley game in any shop in the Valley. Most of the factories are gone now and Shelton seems to be more Fairfirld County then Valley.
I was just there and didn't see one person I knew.

I had a Sentinal route when I was 8. Picked up my papers downtown then walked a mile to start my route.
The only thing I was afraid of were dogs. It was a different world.

Even from the early to mid 1980’s when I spent a lot of time in the Valley, primarily Derby and Seymour, a lot has changed. There are streets in Derby that my friends and I would bike around that I would not feel comfortable driving around today. My grandmother in Seymour used to let me hike by myself the mile though the neighborhood and adjoining woods when I was little to King’s (later Ames, now closed) for hours without a concern. It was a great place to go trick-or-treating, too. J

I also had family in Shelton, not Huntington nor White Hills. The town has always been very divided. With the Valley stuck in an economic hole for the last two decades, Shelton has slowly gentrified into a Fairfield County suburb with residents looking for cheaper alternatives to Trumbull, Fairfield, Westport, etc. or as an upgrade over Bridgeport, Stratford, etc. Still, the Valley is still there under the surface, especially at City Hall.