Steffi Badanes and Audrey Piehl Blogs Editor and Arts & Entertainment Editor As the primaries for the 2012 presidential race are approaching, politicians have started
Month: June 2011
Theater students take a stroll through “The Secret Garden”
Harrison Burt
Reporter
On June 3 the NCHS Drama Department premiered the spring production of The Secret Garden . Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the play tells the story of an orphaned girl named Mary Lennox, who is sent to India to live with her widowed Uncle Archibald. The cast also includes the sibling servant duo Martha and Dickens, Archibald’s lost love Lily and devious brother Neville, and various regal ghosts.
A limited press limits world view
Elizabeth Kilbride
Opinions Editor
What I remember of Nairobi is highway from the airport where guards were stationed with guns that had been painted gold, so they’d be obvious even at night. The image I have of the rest of the country is the soft red dirt and a lot of sky, with bushes sticking out in odd tufts along the creases of the land.
First Selectman Republican Race
Lily Kazemi
News Editor
If you’ve ever run for any kind of leadership position, whether it’s to be class president for Student Coalition or to be co-captain of your varsity volleyball team, you know how hard it is. In most cases, all the candidates turn out to be overqualified for the job, making the decision even harder. This is a sentiment that will be echoed throughout the town this coming summer when the election for the Republican candidate for First Selectman is chosen.
It’s the end of the world as we know it
Sara Levine & Kate Howard
Features Editor & News Editor
On Saturday, May 21, many were counting down the seconds to 6 p.m., wondering if and how the world was “going to end”. The idea spurred conversation when 89 year old radio evangelist Harold Camping declared this day the “invisible judgment day” and warned people of the Rapture, also known as Christ’s return.