BERLIN — Berlin High School has named Brayden Landry as valedictorian, Andrew Cole as salutatorian and Jillian Hallee as the top Career and Technology Education graduate.
In addition to being the Class of 2022’s top academic students, the three are also longtime friends. Cole and Landry live on the same street and have known each other “pretty much our entire life.”
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