Being a varsity athlete means learning how to balance long practices, heavy schoolwork, and the pressure to perform in competition. For many students, that balance is as tough as the sport itself. Four varsity athletes shared how they make it work, and their answers show that balance comes from discipline, small routines, and learning from… Read More Secret to Balancing the Books and the Game
Seniors in high school are obviously always excited for the end of the school year. After all, the end of their school year means no more getting up at 5 or 6 in the morning, no more classwork, and no more being in a place they don’t want to be in for seven hours of… Read More The Best Things About Being a Senior
Once a week for the last 5 weeks of school an article called, “Who’s the Mystery Senior?” will be published. It contains facts/information about ONE senior from the Ledyard 2025 class. In the comments below the article, you are asked to guess who the senior is, and the week after, that senior will be revealed. … Read More Who’s the Mystery Senior?
When choosing classes in high school, you have to worry about more things than you might have expected. For example, different classes are weighted differently, and their weights are symbolized by levels. The amount of weight a class has affects your GPA; to give context, your GPA is your Grade Point Average. Your Grade Point… Read More Let’s talk about levels, GPA, and prerequisites. What do they mean? How do they affect you as a student?
On Tuesday March 18, a woman was arrested in the dirt parking lot in the back of Ledyard High School for being under the influence of drugs. Police stated that they saw a black GMC envoy parked in the lot around 11 am, and when they started to interview her and ordered her out of… Read More Parking Lot Party Crasher
Happy April Fools! Last Wednesday, March 26, the upstairs boys’ bathrooms were closed because exterminators came to try and remove the snake population that has recently been attempting to take over the school. Over the past few weeks, the school has had multiple snake sightings! The bathrooms are the main areas students need to be… Read More Sneaky Snakes
Happy April Fools! In the coming 2025-26 school year the Department of Education has opted to do away with all P.E related classes in turn for mandatory musical theater classes. The move comes after heavy debates about whether or not children are ”Proportionately Fit” and what schools can do about it. Many school districts have… Read More No More P.E. – Mandatory Musical Theater
An all-ECC runner learns a completely new sport? Senior Joey “JoJo” Morales took the track by storm in his sophomore and junior years, quickly becoming a top contender in his events (4×400,1440 medley, 300m, 55m, and more). JoJo usually spends his fall season rehabilitating and training, but this season he decided to pick up the… Read More Running With a Different Kind of Baton
This year’s Junior Prom was a blast to many. Dancing with friends, dressing up to the nines, and being able to spend a night out around the people closest to you, all brings great fun. With 171 attending last year’s dance and 157 (Smaller graduating class) attending this year’s dance the results may shock you… Read More Junior Prom Report Card
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