On Feb. 6, 16 high school Ocean Bowl teams competed at the CT/RI state championship at Avery Point Campus in Groton. At the end of Round 1, Ledyard was in first place and by the end, the all female team took home a second place finish. The team was led by senior captain Olivia Triplett,… Read More Ocean Bowl Team Finishes at Quahog Bowl
National Honor Society has been working with a group called the Community Shoreline Women that collects products for soldiers. Senior Sasha Lopez-Watson is the leader of this project. She contacted a member of the group Lisa Lahti to ask for a list goods that NHS could collect. She decided to pick hygiene… Read More NHS Soldier Drive
American pop star Kesha Rose Serbet (Ke$ha), 28, has been in a three-year court battle with her music producer of ten years, Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald (Dr. Luke). The singer is suing Dr. Luke on multiple counts of sexual harassment over the past ten years, stating she no longer feels safe or comfortable working with him,… Read More A Fight for Musical Freedom
Dimmed lights, a bright stage and people laughing and enjoying their night. This will be the scene in the Ledyard High School auditorium on Friday, January 22. Friday, the Safe Graduate Parent Committee has organized a comedy show to help raise money for the senior class party. The doors are to open at 7 p.m.… Read More Friday Night Comedy
Recently, student congress decided to put in automatic water bottle fillers. They even filter the water! So say goodbye to the gross water that preceded them. Even more recently, there are fillers in the 400s, 200s, and ag, so inconvenience no more! Mr. Casertano, head of student congress, is the reason behind this change, as… Read More Student Congress Success
Bill Cosby, comedian and father on the sitcom, The Cosby Show, will not be charged in two cases of sexual assault. Two different allegations of sexual assault were evaluated in a Los Angeles courtroom Jan. 6. The trial follows a string of sexual assault claims made by multiple women in 2014 and 2015, although the… Read More America’s Dad?
On Monday, Jan. 4, GOP candidate Donald Trump released his first paid television ad. The ad featured Trump’s intentions to put a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and build a wall on the Mexican-American border. Since Donald Trump announced his campaign in June of 2015, he has drawn a lot of attention to himself. Those… Read More Donald Trump Releases First Paid Television Ad
On Nov. 27, a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado left three people dead- one police officer and two civilians. The shooting lasted five hours and the police ended the standoff by convincing the suspect, Robert Louis Dear, to surrender. At 11:40 a.m. Colorado Springs law enforcement responded to a call about an… Read More Planned Parenthood Shooting
One of America’s most beloved coffee chains, Starbucks, kicks off the coldest season of the year with a unique winter design featured on their hot drink cups. Designs on previous cups have included snowflakes, Christmas trees and even a few reindeer all covering a signature shade of red. In October, Starbucks put an end to… Read More A Warm Cup of Controversy
From Dec. 1 to Dec. 15, National Honor Society holds its annual toy drive. For the first week of the toy drive, toys will be collected at the main lobby each morning. For the second week, LHS will bring back the 2014-15 schedule, which includes homeroom after first period. “It’s a homeroom to homeroom competition,”… Read More NHS Toy Drive
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