Shedding light on student trends and culture at the high school.
Tyler Kendall
Features Editor
The loud sirens of a fire engine may tell you when junior Mike Donnelly is coming from miles away. Whenever Mike gets the chance, he hangs out at the Pound Ridge Fire Department or suits up for a ride in a roaring engine. “When I’m getting ready I think of anything that can happen, anything that can go wrong,” he said. “You’re preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best.”
Casey Manzella
Reporter
When senior Emma Gruber was young, she took ballet and ice skating lessons, but neither of these seemed to interest her. One day when she was in elementary school, she attended the Lord of the Dance, a professional Irish Dance performance, and immediately fell in love. “I loved watching the high kicks and jumps!” she said. “It was so amazing, I just wanted to do what they were doing.”
Marlee Ready
Reporter
With busy students occupied by schoolwork and after school activities, they tend to forget their belongings and go on a search for that lost item. But where do they look? Not the lost and found. Why? Because most students don’t even know it exists!
Emilie Kushner
Senior Editor
For new students and freshman alike, getting school schedules can look like a bunch of names that mean nothing. Even seniors haven’t met all of the 113 teachers in their four years at NCHS… and even if you know a teacher’s name or what they look like, do you really know them? Stephen Vehslage may be a name you have never heard. He teaches American Law and AP US Government and Politics.
Harrison Burt
Blogs Editor
We’ve all heard the jokes and read the tweets, but to what extent is the “bubble of New Canaan” a true title? For years our community has been stereotyped as an inaccurate representation of what others believe to be the real world, all based upon preconceived beliefs of everyone being rich and somehow morphing into the same kind of person.
