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One voice, a calmly-delivered and succint tone, reverberates throughout the Ledyard High School wrestling practice in their vast dungeon of a training room, called “The Bomb Shelter.” Amid the sounds of grunts, gasps, and pounding feet in the gymnasium...
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If there is a politician I would’ve liked to have had dinner with, it would have been Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan, who authored nine books during his 24 years in the Senate, is generally regarded as the last academic-as-politician, able to reference...
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It's patently unfair to encapsulate a person with one word but Stephen George is a builder. On one hand, it’s his job title. As Connecticut College’s manager of planning, design and construction, he’s overseen the school’s building projects for the...
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Happy New Year! For many, 2009 brings with it New Year’s resolutions of losing weight, eating healthier, and exercising more. These are all great ideas and wonderful for increasing your overall he alth and well-being, however, many individuals set unrealistic...
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In compiling our top five photos of the year, we considered several criteria in the process. Overall punch, great angles, drama, and irony, among others. Using those criteria, we soon discovered several Times photos were contenders for the top five spread...
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With municipal support in place, the committee trying to build a recreational trail from Groton to Preston is on the verge of starting its fundraising campaign. The Bluff Point to Preston Trail Committee, comprised of representatives from Groton, Groton...
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There were many notable Ledyard sports stories in 2008, most generated by the football and wrestling teams. But when the state’s winningest coach retires after a 42-year tenure, it’s a happening to occur just once every half century. Bill Mignault retired...
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We are living in precarious times, bombarded with mixed messages, unsure of what the future holds. On the one hand, we have a president-elect who promises change in the New Year when he takes office and has instilled a sense of hope and enthusiasm in...
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The afternoon before Thanksgiving this year, a friend’s mother sent her on a hunt for seasonal accessories to spruce up the dinner table, leading to a frantic quest for miniature pumpkins. When area stores failed her, she made fall-colored candy bundles...
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Eons ago, in the Paleozoic Era, people went to bookstores to get books and to record stores to get records. There they met professional bookworms and record store geeks behind the counter, people that the writer Nick Hornby called “professional appreciators...
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Gales Ferry resident Barbara Miller became the first woman inducted into the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame Dec. 9. The honor was created by Governor M. Jodi Rell in 2005 to recognize people who both served with distinction in the military and went...
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New London kicked off the 1988 Christmas season on Dec. 2 with its first annual Plaza Lights Festival. Mayor Carmelina Como Kanzler hit a switch lighting the tree next to the Soldiers and Sailors monument. The Downtown New London Association ran the tree...
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Christmas is but hours away. This year, there are sure to be a small number of children who are not quite sure what to believe about Santa Claus. Way back in the late 1970s when I was struggling with my own beliefs about Santa, my big sister straightened...
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When Stacy Brown brought Twister to the Buckley farm, she was afraid to ride her own horse. Brown had purchased Twister 18 months before and had been working with another trainer. The horse is headstrong, to say the least, and was unruly. The trainer...
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Most parents know that they can enlist their daughters in Girl Scouts and their sons in Boy Scouts, but a smaller contingent knows, for the furrier child, some areas offer membership in Dog Scouts. And as of last month, one of those places is Ledyard...
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