Colonel Ledyard News Today

Groton ― Nineteen candidates, from slates endorsed by Democrats, Republicans, and the newly formed Groton Independents Party, are running for nine seats on the Town Council. Terms are for two years. ...

Cities and towns across Connecticut will be marking the Memorial Day holiday with events throughout the weekend.

I love kids, especially friendly, curious, and engaged kids. They give me hope for the future. I met many such kids recently when I presented a program on the life and death of Colonel William Ledyar...

Howdy, Let’s cut to the chase and get right to BRACKETOLOGY~! THINGS TO REMEMBER: 1. The (unofficial) qualifiers should be correct because we cross-checked them with Sean Patrick Bowley and ...

Community Editor Lee Howard often invites the public to write for the Times, and I highly recommend it, as 10 years of writing Tossing Lines has led me on an unexpected journey. In 2012, then-Communi...

Colonel William Ledyard, merchant of Groton Bank, was not the master of his own destiny. Ledyard may have been free to decide whether to refuse surrender and lose his life in the 1781 Battle of Groton...

I always assumed that Colonel William and Anne Ledyard’s family plot in Groton’s Colonel Ledyard Cemetery contained their entire family, kept cozily together in death and honor. There are 10 stones th...

Town Councilor Bill Saums has a vision for Ledyard Center where more housing brings more people, and more people bring more retail businesses. The missing element to make this happen lies beneath the...

Colonel William Ledyard’s defining moment actually occurred before his death, when he refused two offers to surrender, while facing obvious disaster.

The seven children left fatherless when Colonel William Ledyard was murdered upon surrendering his sword to the British on Fort Griswold in 1781 had been