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WEST HAVEN — A Rocky Mountain Junior High School teacher is a finalist in a contest focused on rewarding educators. As of Thursday, Jaron Sever, who has taught wood shop at Rocky Mountain Junior High for two years, was among the top 10 finalists in Reader's Digest's America's Favorite Teacher competition. Sever told the Standard-Examiner that he's enamored with the learning process. "My ultimate goal as a teacher, as far as curriculum and such, is to give the kids an experience that each one of them can walk away from it and be able to say they like it or they didn't," he said. ...