eNewsChannels NEWS: Last year, Chelsea Groton Bank and its Foundation provided more than $1 Million to non-profit organizations in our communities. The Foundation recently approved $405,820 in grants to 68 non-profit organizations from Connecticut and Rhode Island, which put the full year's giving total above the $1 Million mark for the first time ever. :: News from eNewsChannels
Ben Franklin’s “Liberty Snake,” first printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754.
Published January 12. 2021 8:00AM
John Steward, Special to The Times
Squeezed between the revolutionary hotbeds of New York and Boston, New London and Groton in the 1700s may have been small ports, but we played on the big stage, helping to bring the segregated colonies together in unity, strengthening the country in preparation for war.
After Parliament enacted the reviled Stamp Act in 1765, the wild Sons of Liberty held two December meetings in a New London tavern, the first actions in organizing all the colonies in the buildup to revolution. We were already up in arms over the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, and now we were becoming national players, dangerously hosting and abetting anarchy.
History Revisited: The evolution of Groton schools
This 1906 photograph depicts students in front of the Poquonnock Bridge School, which was originally Groton’s Seventh District School, was built in 1797 and added to in 1890. The school was destroyed by an arson fire in 1912. (photo courtesy of Carol Kimball)
Published December 15. 2020 7:55AM
Jim Streeter, Special to The Times
One of the primary and major responsibilities of a local government is to provide children with adequate educational opportunities. In 1698, the purpose of schooling was to teach children to “read, write and cypher,” which later was referred to as the three Rs: “reading, ‘riting (writing) and ‘rithmetic (arithmetic).”