Soft, delicate, tiny.Millions of frozen flakes swirling around in the air.Falling, dancing, clumping.Swarming around.The wind forces these flakes around and around and around.Blizzards, blustering windsPiles five feet high!These flakes come together,Battering the walls of our fragile homeHarsh winds, slamming this house.When will it end?! I think I will go insane!Morning breaksThe sunshine melts these icy […]

I am golden, a drop of yellowFluttering in the breeze.An apple falling up,High above the treesBefore the frosted silver seas.I am silver, a flake of cloudTumbling with ease.Softly falling down,A chill before the green.I am green, a sprout of newPushing through the earth. A feeble ray of future,Dreaming blue to come.I am blue, big and […]

If you could re-live one day of your life, what would it be?Anthony HathorneSeniorThe day I got my license.Amanda Moody SophomoreMy brother’s birth. It was my first brother and he’s 11 now.Jasmine DymentFrehmanMy 8th grade year. All of it.Chris WilliamsonHealth TeacherWhen I found out that I was going to be a dad.

Conformity. What does that mean to you? A great man once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” That man was John F. Kennedy, and he couldn’t be more right. Conformity causes us to suffocate our ideas and holds us back from making strides. Most people conform to society without […]

When you think of cross country skiing, you think of grueling practice sessions, 5 kilometer races, team rivalries and rigorous up-hill climbs. But after the championships are pass, after the winners have made their claim and temperatures begin their rapid incline. After the tough ski season is thought by many to be over with, one […]

A Note from Columnist, Brian Craig.This will be the last Brian’s Circle Column that I will write for the Academic Advocate, as I am graduating this year. I just wanted to take the time to thank you for reading my Column. It has meant so much to me that I had the opportunity to be […]

Filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid also known as FASFA, is a process to help undergraduates and graduates financially afford college. Students who wish to apply for the application can visit www.fasfa.ed.gov and create an account and a PIN (Personal Identification Number). Undergraduates and/or graduates fill out personal information and their parent’s financial […]

The results for the Lewiston Middle School Artist of the month are in. The person chosen by Mrs. Myrand is Samantha (Sammi) Clark. Sammi, an LMS eighth grader, was selected because of her portrait she did in Mrs. Myrand’s class. Sammi expresses her feelings about by saying, “In my opinion, art is a way to […]

There are thousands of word that kids use everyday. Some more appropriate than others. Kids think it is okay to say “shut up” and “stupid” to each other now. That doesn’t bother kids as much as the newly defined word “retarded”. In the dictionary, the word retarded means slow or limited in intellectual or emotional […]

At Monmouth Middle School they have added a new sport this spring. We have never had this sport in our system until this year. This sport is Tennis, and it will be coached by Tyler Hunt (Coach Hunt). He is a teacher at the Monmouth Middle School, and also the head coach of the Winthrop […]