The holiday season is coming around the corner very fast and even before we know it, we’ll be tearing open brightly colored presents, from under the Christmas tree. But, for many people, having trouble with depression can really ruin someone’s holiday season. So I’m going to be telling everyone about a healthy way to boost […]

Tripp Middle School’s magazine drive was a fantastic way of raising money for the school with an outstanding total in sales of $10,063. The advisor’s team that raised the most hit the biggest class total of $1,110. This class was Ms. Totman is of the Bengal team. Mrs. Laperriere ‘s was highest sales for the […]

At Tripp Middle School, I attended Academic Advocate on Wednesdays during Tiger Team (a 50-minute segment in-between second and third period classes) every week. I was looking forward to joining more than one club/extracurricular this year, but I’m limited because all of the clubs meet on Wednesdays, such as Student Council and Civil Rights, and […]

January 26 was the Chinese New Year! The year of the Ox. Everywhere Chinese people are, they hurry home from work. People rush out of subway stations, train stations and buses. Families gather around at one’s house. The house, condo, or apartment is filled with warmth, laughter, and happiness. Children gather around the eating table […]

At Leavitt this year we performed the musical “The Wizard of Oz.” This was my first lead role at this level and, needless to say, I was nervous. Theater can be a nerve- racking experience; the lights, makeup, microphones, hundreds of lines, movements, dances, and costumes can be stressful and almost intimidating. Combine that with […]

Students at Leavitt were asked, “What is your biggest fear?”Emily M. “Clowns!”Danielle C. “Being alone, and lost.”Mike C. “Losing my grandfather.”So the deal with fear is….Everyone has different fears for different reasons, whether it’s from an experience or something they are afraid of experiencing. Fear is one of the most basic human emotions. It works […]

As we all know, January 20 will forever be known in history as the day the first African-American became president.What will be in the minds of the Lewiston Middle School students is that they got to watch the president and vice president get sworn in right as it was happening. Most students didn’t even know […]

Here in Monmouth Middle School, the eighth grade class is doing a year-long invention project. Every student has a different invention like the television or the pen. The students got to choose which project they wanted to study, but there are no two people doing the same thing.There are two parts to this project, a […]

Snow is such a wonderful thing. When those beautiful little crystals fall from the sky, they leave an amazing blanket of perfect, untouched white snowflakes. Each one of those flakes is different from the next. When most people think winter, they think a cold time that has miserable weather. But I like to think of […]

Where is the frost? Caught in the year 1793, all residents of Philadelphia prayed for a blanket of snow to appear each morning. While reading “Fever 1793,” I would catch myself wishing that the upcoming chapter would contain the visual of snow, lighting up the page, leading the way to a hopeful ending.Early in the […]