Photo from silhouettefile.com By: Avery Ruggiero This week’s word of the week is acersecomic (ay-sur-si-KOM-ik). Acersecomic is a rare term used to define a person whose hair has never been cut. Much more commonly found in early English dictionaries, the word was inspired by a tradition in Ancient Greece and Rome where young men would…
Photo from goodreads.com By: Mairyn Boone Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel where books are banned and burned in a society. Guy Montag, who is the main character, works as a fireman and must burn these books, but he begins questioning his job and the foundation of their society. I read this…
Credits: Britannica By Kiana Madrigal You hear a knock on your front door and before you can answer it, townspeople barge in accusing you of being caught flying during the night hours. Ridiculous, right? Not in 1692 it wasn’t, and you had better find an alibi quick or else you will be hung by tomorrow…
By: Reagan Buselli Q: What do you call a can opener that doesn’t work? A: A can’t opener.
By: Reagan Buselli On Thursday, October 22, the freshman took a trip to Marywood University, Keystone College, Scranton University, and Johnson College. The students were given a tour by a college student or a member of the staff at the college they were touring. They visited many of the college’s facilities, including their libraries, cafeterias,…
By: Silvia Cremona This upcoming Friday, a “Trunk or Treat” will be held in the student parking during second block. All students will have the chance to vote on the best “Trunk or treat car”, which will be decorated and put together by high school students. The event was organized by student class officers and…
By: Vaericia Meno On October 23, the Wallenpaupack Exercise Science and Sports Medicine CTE junior and senior classes went on a trip to the University of Scranton to learn and observe what the university has to offer about their Physical Therapy labs. The students got to experience how the college students work with detailed models…
By: Reilly Buselli The health fair is an annual event where businesses and programs around the area come to teach the sophomore class about wellness. Each group sets up a table that the students can visit. The different tables teach the students about the components of wellness including nutritional, physical, social, emotional, and relationship wellness….
Author: Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith By: Vaericia Meno 10 Things I Hate About You is a romantic comedy about two sisters, Kat and Bianca Stratford, who have very different personalities. Bianca is popular and wants to start dating, but their dad has a rule that she cannot date until Kat does. The problem…
Authorized by: Abigail Deutsch By: Vaericia Meno At midnight on October 8, 2009, about 50 people gathered on the sidewalk before Baltimore’s Westminster Church. Some wore jeans. Some wore pajamas. Some wore capes and gowns and girdles. The drivers rolling down Fayette Street slowed to peer at the assembly, which bulged beyond the curb, into…
