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Time has marched on for the East Lyme High graduating class of 2008, as it does for everyone. The graduating class of 312 students, from East Lyme and Salem, was unique in the challenges, opportunities and milestones it faced, individually and collectively...
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Most adults don’t expect seventh and eighth graders to know what they want to do when they grow up. But it’s certainly not too early for these students to explore the possibilities and give serious thought, if not curiosity, to what they might like to...
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It’s become an annual affair – live symphonic and choral music wafting into the rafters, some biscotti, works of art, from pencil sketches and oils to ceramics and wild papier-mache masks, at every turn. Try not to trip over the admiring parents. This...
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Catherine Tang admits she has no idea what she’s going to major in at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. However, the East Lyme High School senior should have no worries about academic achievement. Tang has been named a 2008 Presidential Scholar...
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Old Lyme residents turned out in record numbers at the annual town meeting on Monday, May 19, at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School to weigh in on a proposal to study dissolution of District 18 School District. The district serves approximately 1,550 students...
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Hannah Kegley is fascinated with plants. It’s something she realized as early as the first grade, when she decided to chop up a water lily for a school project and examine all of its parts. Since then, the young woman’s passion and curiosity have grown...
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East Lyme High School ’s performing musicians have something to crow about, following the Great East Music Festival in West Springfield , Mass., on May 2. The Symphony Orchestra earned top honors, the platinum award, scoring 96 points out of a possible...
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A lot of Connecticut residents plan to spend part of their summer vacation near water—a week at the beach, inland, or coastal kayaking. It’s only natural. Anna Smith, a 1999 graduate of Lyme-Old Lyme High School , plans to be around water in August. But...
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Anyone looking for entertaining children’s theater – by children – would have been impressed with the East Lyme Children’s Theater’s 40th production. The community institution, started years ago by passionate supporters of youth and community theater...
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Global warming. Carbon footprint. Gasoline for $3.65 a gallon. Long Island Sound beach-front property...in Essex. Earth Day 2008 has taken on new significance, or certainly gotten more of our attention this year. While the first Earth Day gave birth to...
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It might sound like a tweener girl's dream come true: an entire Friday evening devoted to dressing up in costumes, maybe some makeup, music, crafts, dancing, games, and food, with your girlfriends. Lots of them. Feb. 29 marked the third International...
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It was a touching farewell for David Klein, superintendent of Lyme-Old Lyme Schools, on Feb. 29. While the adult movers and shakers, elected officials, staff, and well-wishers feted him on the previous evening, the Friday afternoon affair at Lyme-Old...
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