The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

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Consoles, is there a point?

Tristan Machon, Staff Writer December 21, 2015

Before we begin, will the console gamers please put down the pitchforks! The two consoles of this generation came out two years ago and now there has been some time to see what they can do. The question...

Reusable lunch containers

Reusable lunch containers

Allie Campbell, Staff Writer December 18, 2015

A plastic baggie for your sandwich, a granola bar wrapper, a yogurt container, and a drink bottle. Every day. Five days a week. Forty-three weeks in a school year. Those numbers don’t include weekends...

What you get off the field

What you get off the field

Stephanie Buchanan, Staff Writer December 13, 2015

High school sports are everything in the world to some students, while others may not turn a head for them. The participation for sports at HB is high; if you ask any student, most of them will report...

Is college too expensive?

Is college too expensive?

Garrett Klausner, Staff Writer December 10, 2015

If you really want to make a name for yourself in life, college will definitely help you in achieving success; but for many smart students in high school, achieving success is difficult with the high cost...

Trumpets and trombones often play in unision

New Hampshire Music Festival

Emma Dougherty, News Editor December 7, 2015

The New Hampshire Music Festival, otherwise known as All State, will take place during the second weekend of April this coming spring in Concord. For three days, April 17-19, 2016 our school’s twenty-one...

Gaming Stereotypes

Gaming Stereotypes

Tristan Machon, Staff Writer December 7, 2015

I would think you all know what a gamer is, or what the stereotypical gamer is. The kind of description you would only ever find on Urban Dictionary; overweight with poor personal hygiene living in their...

Are dress codes sexist?

Are dress codes sexist?

Lanie Wood, Staff Writer December 5, 2015

Dress codes in public high schools today have generated a community in which female students are being chastised and targeted for what they wear. Dress codes send the harmful message to teen girls that...

A normal morning driving to school at 7 a.m.

High beams needed for getting to school

Shannon Fitzpatrick, Staff Writer December 4, 2015

Each morning, students of Hollis Brookline High School  roll out of bed before the sun is up, quickly get ready, and are on their way to school.  Walking through a high school hallway, one of the most...

Is robotics a sport?

Is robotics a “sport”?

Curtis Newton, Staff Writer December 2, 2015

I remember during Spirit Week last year that Wednesday was designated as “sports” day. As a member of the robotics team, some mentors suggested I wear my robotics shirt. I didn’t actually wear the...

Black Fridays impact on Thanksgiving

Black Friday’s impact on Thanksgiving

Chantal Jennings, Scott Kroeger and Michaela Dinman November 13, 2015

  With consumer economics so prominent nowadays, Black Friday and Thanksgiving are both competing for attention from American people. With Black Friday falling on the day after Thanksgiving,...

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