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As part of her Senior Signature Project, Claire is writing music reviews for an online publication called The Owl Mag, which “offers daily music news, reviews, videos, and features about local artists, emerging/unsigned bands, independent DIYers, and those that have ‘MADE IT.’” Her first published review looks at “Piedmont Girls,” Bay Area band Local Hero’s …
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When you think high school sports, football is likely first in line. Maybe baseball surfaces, all-American and dusty, or basketball, sneakers screeching across the court. Sailing just doesn’t scream “action” or “intensity” the way teen dramas ask their token sports to; really, sailing doesn’t seem to scream at all. The connotations of sailing tend toward …
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Spanish teacher Mary Ann Rodgers spoke at Morning Meeting about Day of the Dead and how she has come to experience it personally and as part of The Bay School community. “I hope we are beginning to see the difference between Halloween, where the images are all to create fear (even though little goblins are …
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Arts and humanities teacher Colin Williams shares about his history students’ mock debates. What looked like a room full of students last week was in fact a room full of delegates to the New York ratifying convention in Poughkeepsie. The men of New York elected these delegates to decide whether to ratify the new Constitution. At each …
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In the Bay Counties League (BCL) cross country championship, six runners ran their best 5-kilometer times of the year. The team has vastly improved since past seasons, making significant progress in the toughest Division V league in the state. The team has yet another opportunity to prove itself at the North Coast Section (NCS) championship …
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