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Ask Kathryn Tretter how to teach little kids to read and she’ll tell you: They have to learn how to “break the reading code.” The challenge is, everyone learns differently. And that’s OK. One of the special education teachers at Mile Creek School in Old...
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It’s the issue that won’t go away. After last year’s failed referendum for a $54 million rebuilding project, residents of Lyme and Old Lyme are faced with the decision of what to do with Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Before the residents of both towns is...
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Becky and Caroline Tompkins and their friend Taylor Teixeira love animals. All kinds of them, especially pets. The enterprising trio of 13-year-old eighth-graders at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School decided to put their energies to a good cause last summer...
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By Larry Kelley Special to the Times There were success stories on many levels, ranging from the unlikely athletic path of the winner to comebacks of heart attack survivors to 13-year-old twin sisters finishing in the same order of their birth, at the...
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Like father, like son goes only so far for Gerard and Jerry Smith. The father and son, both Connecticut natives, enjoy working with acrylics. They also like to hold the occasional art show together. But while Gerard Smith, 70, the successful naturalist...
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Mimi's Place is a favorite play space for many moms and little ones in Old Lyme. Step into the little cottage at the Lymes’ Youth Service Bureau these days, and you just might hear toddlers chattering in Spanish. Most parents in town associate LYSB...
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By Marisa Nadolny Times Managing Editor It’s the season of changing colors here in Connecticut, and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is following suit with its recently installed 2008 Fall Exhibition. Launched Sept. 19, the exhibition includes A...
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There was a lot of lettuce flying around Ardonn Boutique last Sunday as Hugh Devlin, owner of the much-remembered Hughie’s in New London, served up his famous Love Salad out on the front steps of the shop on Main Street in Niantic. “Everybody had so much...
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Bill O’Meara is a kind soul. The 79 -year-old not-yet-retired pediatric dentist (after years in private practice, he works at Hill Health Center in New Haven, a federally qualified health center founded in 1968) and Old Lyme resident wanted this story...
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Just about every one of us seems to be concerned about maintaining balance in our lives. As we age, this word takes on a literal meaning: “balance” as in “not falling,” in a real, physical sense, not a state of being. However, there’s still a big psychological...
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Betty Osga is getting to know her way around Lyme and Old Lyme. While it seems like town residents have been getting almost daily mailings and inserts about the pending referendum on the proposed Lyme-Old Lyme (L-OL) High School renovation project, District...
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Not long ago, the LaFleur family of Waterford would pile into a canoe and set out around the region’s waterways. That hasn’t happened for some time. “We hardly get the canoe out anymore,” Dave LaFleur said. These days, it’s all about kayaks. “Kayaking...
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Put “East Lyme” and “family farm” in the same sentence and just about everyone comes up with Scott’s. The question is, which one, which generation, and what was their first name? And for good reason. There have been a lot of Scott brothers over the years...
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Andy Baxter is still trying to figure it out. Call it fate or good luck, the Lyme resident is very thankful that 15-year-old Hannah Watkins, also of Lyme, had the presence of mind and smarts to save the life of Jasmine, his dog and close companion, a...
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As retail establishments go, the Lyme Tree in Old Lyme is hardly a high-pressure, hard-sell environment. It’s not meant to be. The little shop in Old Lyme Marketplace is a great place for women of all ages and walks of life to catch up with friends, find...
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