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Annapolis, Md., is no longer home to the nation’s most-sober service academy, according to a survey by The Princeton Review. The group’s yearly “party school” rankings came out Monday, and while most media attention has rested on the University of Iowa’s rise to the top of that list, the accompanying “sober school” list includes three service academies, with Annapolis bringing up the rear at No. 9. The U.S. Military Academy ranks fifth, with the Coast Guard Academy in eighth. It’s a bit of a shake-up from last year’s list, when the Navy had the most-sober service academy (third on the…

Coast Guard Academy Superintendent Rear Adm. Sandra L. Stosz will be leading the fifth annual New London, Conn., Irish Parade on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, as one of the grand marshals. Stosz was recently named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Shake the World.” She will be joined by New London’s mayor, Daryl Finizio. The Coast Guard is also partnering with the city to offer tours of icebreaking tugboat Morro Bay and patrol boat Chinook at the New London Waterfront. Tours of barque Eagle will be available on Saturday at Fort Trumball. The joint celebration of St. Patrick’s Day…

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