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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.

Opinions

The Holidays: Perception Vs. Reality

Audrey Piehl
Opinions Editor

Getting the Christmas Tree:

PERCEPTION: You arrive at a Christmas tree farm in the rustic but cozy Connecticut woodland. A merry lumberjack-esque man with rosy cheeks greets you and your family, all of whom are sipping apple cider and glowing with cheer. Everyone agrees on a beautiful, 8 ft. Austrian Pine (imported, of course) that travels smoothly back to your benevolent abode. It is erected proudly in the living room and is quickly adorned with vintage Coca-cola ornaments and environmentally-friendly lights, the latter’s profits to be donated to save seal pups (awww!). As gifts quickly populate the bottom of the tree, the anticipation and aroma of the holidays steadily grows.

Features

Holidays: the Universal Religion

Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Reporter

Religion, the very source of all major winter holidays has been repeatedly pushed aside recently by those who feel it is a downer on an otherwise joyful holiday season. In a time when 15% of Americans do not identify with a religion, many see the holidays as a secular affair. Many people still believe that religion needs to be at the forefront of the holidays, others think that without religion, we get rid of an unnecessary stick in the mud during the winter festivities.

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