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Scarring Childhood Moments

Lizzy Burke

Features Editor

Childhood is a time for change, because each day, we grow and experience new things. However, some of these experiences may not have always been the most pleasant. Every high school student has had their fair share of embarrassing or traumatizing incidents in those pre-pubescent years. Flannery O’Connor once said, “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” For one of your fellow classmates, this scare to their survivalcame at the ripe age of nine years old.

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The best places in town to get holiday drinks

Molly Stine
Reporter

The holiday season brings for New Canaanites gift shopping, house decorating and sledding (weather permitting). But the most anticipated part of the season appears in coffee shops around town. The love of holiday drinks runs deep and as you can imagine, things can get pretty heated (no pun intended) over who makes them the best. NCHS students have evaluated where they think the best spot in town is to get a holiday drink during the season. Whether it’s Zumbach’s, Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, everybody has a personal preference.

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TV exec directs broadcast students

At 10 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 18, a crew of television broadcast students were hard at work in the auditorium preparing for the filming and production of the Salant Lecture. By 3 p.m. the students had only taken a break for lunch, and were still hard at work behind heavy equipment and under hot lights. Every step the students executed was crucial for the preparation of making the event run smoothly. The mounting pressure of the names they would be working with echoed periodically throughout the auditorium. The Salant Lecture was moderated by Brian Williams and guest panel members included Joe Scarborough, David Gergen and Peter C. Goldmark Jr. These panel members arrived around 5:30 p.m. to prepare for their discussion about the consequences of the recent election and the next four years. At 7 p.m. the show started and the students went live.

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday put retailers on top

Sarah Maddox
Reporter

Every year, the Friday after Thanksgiving is when retailers open up stores with special sales and promotions for holiday shopping. The term “Black Friday” has been used because retail stores usually have enough sales this Friday to place them “in the black”, or having more profits than losses.
The superstore Target had doorbuster deals for as low as $5 and $10, starting at 9 p.m. Thanksgiving night. At 5 a.m. on Friday morning, Wal-Mart opened their doors with great deals on everything from electronics to jewelry. Deals like these attract people looking to save some money on holiday gifts. In fact, a record 59.1 billion was spent shopping this Thanksgiving weekend according to learnvest.com.

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