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Week in Review: Sixth Grade Transition Postponed, Art Exhibits in Ledyard

The week's top stories on the Ledyard Patch

 

Marge Anderson of the i5 Teaching Network shared these photos of the Winter Wit and Whimsy exhibit she has up in the gallery at the Gales Ferry Community Center. The show will be up until Wednesday, Feb. 6, so drop in and have a look.

Also, Maugle Sierra, our local (grape) winery, is showing work by a local artist Eleanor Miller. Drop in Friday through Sundays (through February) to take a look and enjoy a cozy glass of wine and live entertainment.

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And, we saw the site plans for the two proposed spots for the new police station. The “preferred site” is next to town hall although the space is small, congested and the Town doesn’t even own all the property needed for police needs.

Among other issues, this design requires the acquisition of 1,575 square feet of property presently owned by Holdridge’s Nursery; the parcel is needed for required parking spaces and an on-site impound lot.

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The second proposed site is off of J. Alfred Clark Way located off of Route 117 with the Ledyard Public Works complex. The proposed building is the same because the topography is similar. This property is already owned by the Town of Ledyard so the land on that lot is free and clear, parking wouldn’t be a problem, there would be no need to acquire or utilize additional property and police vehicles and impounded evidence would be less vulnerable to risks.

Police K9 units from throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island assisted the Ledyard Police Department and the Ledyard Board of Education in a pre-planned drug search, which netted several alerts and one seizure of marijuana at the high school this week. The K9 sweep resulted in the identification of one locker with marijuana but no police referrals were given.

That student responsible for the drugs was given disciplinary consequences in accordance with Board policy, said Ledyard Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michael Graner.

This year’s fifth graders will likely be the top dogs in their current schools next year as the ad hoc committee on the sixth grade transition recommended to the Board of Education that they postpone the sixth graders’ move to the Gales Ferry/Juliet W. Long School until September 2014. This year’s fourth graders may be the first sixth grade class to take the leap out of elementary school to middle school – kind of.

Also, the superintendent presented a “final iteration” of the middle school renovation project at a regular Board of Education meeting Wednesday. Click here to see the plans and more details.

 The Ledge Light Health District is applying for a grant to help promote the use of prescription drug drop-off boxes among Ledyard residents. They hope to collaborate with the CVS in Gales Ferry, which will distribute stickers informing people where they can drop off any unused and/or expired prescription drugs.

The two nearest drop off boxes are located at the City of Groton Police Department and the Groton Town Police Department.


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