This June, America’s most talked-about candidate of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump, will be talking to the senior class about “How to Make America Great Again” after their high school careers come to an end. Trump will be educating the Class of 2016 on many important issues occurring across the country right now. One… Read More Trump to Speak at Ledyard Graduation
Every kid remembers being fascinated with their parents’ job. Dressing up in their clothes and shoes ten times too big and prancing around the house with a purse or a briefcase pretending to go to work. Little kids live for take your kid to work day, the day they go to peek into their parents’… Read More Take Your Parent to School Day
Great news students! The wait is finally over and everyone’s dream is coming true. There will be a Starbucks vending machine installed in the school. “The Starbucks vending machine is going in the cafeteria with hot and cold drinks. It will be open during the school day to all students and staff,” custodian Craig Sylvester… Read More Starbucks Vending Machine to be Installed in LHS
Advanced Placement classes are wonderful in many ways. They challenge students to think in different ways, give students the opportunity to earn college credit and show colleges that students are serious about their academic careers. Every year at Ledyard High School, bright and hardworking individuals take classes like AP Biology, AP U.S. History, AP Psychology… Read More AP Testing Pushed Forward to the Beginning of April
On March 7, it was announced that Tim Remington, a pastor at Coeur d’Alene church in Idaho, had survived multiple gunshots would including one to the head. Remington was shot six times March 6, by 30-year-old Kyle Andrew Odom. The entire event was caught on video. Remington was able to survive the gunshot to the… Read More Idaho Pastor Shot by Former Marine
CNN recently reported that the U.S. military is creating an implant that “would allow a human brain to communicate directly with computers.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is the Pentagon’s research arm, aims to help people with auditory and visual disabilities, such as those injured in combat. The project is planned to… Read More Cyborgs: A New Reality?
A car bomb planted near a bus stop in Turkey’s capital of Ankara blew up March 13, killing 34 and wounding 125 (Fox News). This was the second attack in under a month in Turkey and it’s likely the left-wing militant group, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is responsible for concealing bombs under parked cars (Reuters). The… Read More Turkey Terrified after Bombing
More and more people have been paying attention to the 2016 presidential election, demonstrated through increased voter turnout at the primaries, most often attributed to the wild and radical campaign of Donald Trump. Prior to Super Tuesday, Trump had won all Republican elections with the exception of the Iowa Caucus. Hillary Clinton was also three… Read More Political Updates
In a case of mistaken identity, three-year-old Ahmed Mansour Karni was sentenced to life imprisonment by the highest Egyptian Military court, along with three additional years by a civilian misdemeanour court, for a crime he would have commited when he was just 16 months old. Karni was accused of allegedly being involved in the murders… Read More Three-Year-Old Boy Mistakenly Sentenced to Life Imprisonment in Egypt
On the night of Feb. 20, 45-year old Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton killed six people and injured two over the course of nearly six hours. The shootings occurred sporadically at three different locations in Kalamazoo, Michigan. CNN reported that he first shot a woman multiple times in front of her children in an apartment… Read More Uber Driver Goes on Kalamazoo Killing Spree
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