Week in Review: Municipal Building Projects, New Flag

Happy Easter!

There are sunrise services, Easter egg hunts, and an Easter breakfast planned for today, check out the community calendar to see all the planned Easter services and events.

High school students from Ledyard and New London met at Gallup Hill School to read a story to the elementary students, but the high schoolers weren’t there to show off their reading skills, they were there as ambassadors of diversity.

The students are members of a group called More Than Words, which meets several times a year to learn and talk about the things that make us all different and also the same. At this meeting, they used a Dr. Seuss book “The Sneeches” to illustrate their purpose to the students at Gallup Hill School.

The two big construction projects in Ledyard took another step forward toward being on the May 21 ballot Wednesday when most members of the Town Council voted to authorize a firm to prepare bond authorization documents for the middle school renovation project and the new police station building project.

The Ledyard Police Department had a busy start to the week with a handful of reports of vandalism, a burglary and a possible burglary attempt in Ledyard and Gales Ferry. There was a rash of vandalism incidents last weekend in Gales Ferry where a handful of homes and properties were damaged after someone threw rocks through the windows. They made one arrest connected to burglaries that took place a while back but they continue to investigate these recent incidents.

Early this year, Ledyard Center School students wrote to State Sen. Cathy Osten and expressed dismay over the tattered state of their school flag and based on that letter, Osten was moved to act. Sen. Osten took the kids' request to heart and brought them a new flag early this month and this flag was no ordinary flag. She purchased the flag that she donated to Ledyard Center School and had it flown over the State Capitol Building on January 28, 2013. Here’s a VIDEO of the kids raising their new flag and reciting the pledge of allegiance.

According to Principal Nash-Dietzel, the flag had taken quite a beating in the last hurricane and the blizzard and was starting to look worse for wear.