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  • Juniors Can't Park

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Bryant Mckenzie

    It has been a heated start to the school year, as traffic problems and parking issues have made the morning commute a dreadful chore. For the first month of school, juniors were told that parking perm

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  • New Teachers

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Sara Khosrowjerdi

    New TeachersBy Sara Khosrowjerdi Name: Daouda ThiamDepartment: Foreign LanguageEducation: BA in English: American Literature and Civilization (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar Senegal), MA in Englis

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  • Tennis Court Dedications

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Patricia Fogarty

    The high school tennis courts have been a site for camps, teams, and lovers of the game for about as long as the high school has been standing. All of the improvements to the courts have happened beca

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  • WSYT Family

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Emma Macedo

    Over the summer the Wilbraham Summer Youth Theater, also known as WSYT, rehearsed for their presentation of the musical “Oliver”. Every year, the program’s participants work hard to produce a great sh

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  • Homecoming

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Grace Vottero

    This year’s race for the Homecoming King and Queen was hotly contested. In a surprising turn of events, seniors Chad Herrick and Amy Gernux were named King and Queen at the annual Pep Rally. Due to ra

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  • Social Anxiety Disorder

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Dorothy Rzeznik

    There are times when all of us can’t help getting anxious about a presentation in front of a whole class of students, or going somewhere we’ve never been to, and talking with someone we’ve never met.

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  • Model School

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Katie Landeck

    Way out near Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the town of Whitman built Whitman-Hanson Regional High School back in 2004. At the time, the school was nice, but relatively insignificant to the Hampden-Wilbr

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  • Tubing

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Nolan Thompson and Molly Kazin

    With the invention of the motorboat, another popular American pastime emerged-tubing. With an inflatable inner tube tethered to the back of a boat, or any other sort of watercraft, people spend hours

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  • Girls' Volleyball

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Christine Fimognari

    When watching a girls’ volleyball game, viewers can be wowed by the fantastic performance of sets, serves, spikes, and digs. The girls on both the Junior Varsity and Varsity teams don’t just show a gr

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  • New Cross Country Coach

    Monday, October 06, 2008 By: Mia Major

    A lot of times, a new coach is an additional challenge for teams to overcome. The players have to learn how to communicate with the coach and understand what the coach is asking for. This was not a p

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At-a-glance

School store
When exiting the cafeteria after lunch and with time to spare before the bell, some students make their way to the school store to browse the items up for sale. The Falcon Corner School Store has chan
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What started as an emblem for the British anti-nuclear war movement is now America’s most famous cutting edge symbol—the peace sign. It is often associated with the Vietnam War, the time period when i
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In 2005, when the current seniors were meager freshmen, “Green Day” occurred. On “Green Day,” the high school won four Western mass championships in one day in girls’ volleyball, boys’ and girls’ socc
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To many high school students, summer is meant to be a time free of the pressure that school brings, including heavy loads of homework and sports practices. For the members of the golf team, it was not
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In the 2005 film “Coach Carter”, a basketball coach transformed his players from merely athletes to respectable members of society who not only are great at their game, but get good grades as well. At
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A lot of times, a new coach is an additional challenge for teams to overcome. The players have to learn how to communicate with the coach and understand what the coach is asking for. This was not a p
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About a month ago, it seemed that the unstoppable force known as "Obamamania" would crush the Republican campaign and John McCain’s hopes for the presidency. McCain’s campaign lacked the charisma and
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Boxing
Most people have probably seen boxing on television or have heard of the famous boxer Mohammed Ali, but very few people know that one of the school’s very own is a rising boxer. Senior Rollin Whitley
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When watching a girls’ volleyball game, viewers can be wowed by the fantastic performance of sets, serves, spikes, and digs. The girls on both the Junior Varsity and Varsity teams don’t just show a gr
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On the back of every Renaissance card, there is a list of benefits it holds: discounts to school events, a pass to the media center during a cancelled class, a 10% discount on clothing at the school s
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