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	<title>Our Middle School Speaks Out</title>
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		<title><![CDATA[Our Middle School Speaks Out]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cell Phone Warning]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Mikalah F., 8th grade</div><br>On January 5, the students at Northwestern Middle School arrived back at school after their two week holiday vacation. They have come with some of their new toys and electronics such as cell phones an <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252941/cell_phone_warning.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Food for Thought]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By John Peter H., 8th grade</div><br>One thing that has been on the student body’s mind is the price of lunches. Ms. Perez keeps telling us to eat healthy, but the price of healthy food keeps skyrocketing while the price of unhealthy foo <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252937/food_for_thought.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:32:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Helping Our Generation]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Emma C., 8th grade</div><br>You know how everyone is always complaining that our generation is overweight, non-exercising, and lazy? The government continues to require us to do more and more in gym class, barely allowing us to  <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252935/helping_our_generation.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:31:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eighth Graders Attend Shakespearean Play at Hartford Stage]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252934/eighth_graders_attend_shakespearean_play_at_hartford_stage.aspx]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Dan H., 8th grade</div><br><div class='ArticleImgDesc'><div class='ArticleImg_Clipwrapper'><div class='ArticleImg_Clip'><img src='http://my.hsj.org/Portals/2/Schools/1234/Article252934_dressed up.JPG/250/250/jpg/Image.ashx' Border='0'/><br /><br /><p><br></p></div></div></div>“Finally!” we 8th graders said in relief when we got to the Hartford Stage theater in Hartford, CT on September 16, 2008, to enjoy the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.. We were a <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252934/eighth_graders_attend_shakespearean_play_at_hartford_stage.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:30:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Garage Band Rocks!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Stephan D., 8th Grade</div><br>In Garage Band we have been playing music written from famous bands. Garage Band is not like the regular school band. We do not play jazz pieces with instruments like rubas. We use electric guitars, b <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252932/garage_band_rocks.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:28:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Get Involved!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Casey W., 8th grade</div><br>Hey, all you middle school students! Do you do an after school activity such as play a sport, play in the band, or join a club? Teachers and other students see great efforts in students involved with  <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252929/get_involved.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:27:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Student Council Does It Again]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Casey W., 8th grade</div><br><div class='ArticleImgDesc'><div class='ArticleImg_Clipwrapper'><div class='ArticleImg_Clip'><img src='http://my.hsj.org/Portals/2/Schools/1234/Article252873_PB200049.JPG/250/250/jpg/Image.ashx' Border='0'/><br /><br /><p><br></p></div></div></div>For many years, NWR#7 students have been creating turkey baskets to help out each of our four school towns: New Hartford, Barkhamsted, Norfolk, and Colebrook.  Having a close call this year with limit <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252873/the_student_council_does_it_again.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:41:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The IPOD: Essential for Life?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By By Jessica J. and Vanessa L, 8th grade</div><br>Over the last few years, Ipods have been improving. The Ipods started out big and had to be controlled with hands on buttons. Now, the Ipod Nano is small and very thin. It’s so small it almost feels l <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252872/the_ipod_essential_for_life.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:40:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Winter in the Summer Sun]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By Melissa K., 8th grade</div><br>What would you say if you could spend the winter holiday in the sunshine state where the temperature of the week was in the mid to low 80s? Imagine if on Christmas day you would be walking on the beac <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/252868/winter_in_the_summer_sun.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:37:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[KnowledgeMasters Club Impresses the World!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div class='ArticleAuthor'>By HC, Advisor</div><br><div class='ArticleImgDesc'><div class='ArticleImg_Clipwrapper'><div class='ArticleImg_Clip'><img src='http://my.hsj.org/Portals/2/Schools/1234/Article249074_kmasters1.JPG/250/250/jpg/Image.ashx' Border='0'/><br /><br /><p><br></p></div></div></div>In their very first competition, the Northwestern Middle School KnowledgeMasters Club debuted with excellent marks in the international competition.

The first Knowledge Master Bowl occurred on Dece <a href='http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/1234/articleid/249074/knowledgemasters_club_impresses_the_world.aspx'>full story ></a> ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:06:42 GMT</pubDate>
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