Here comes your Banderson
Lily Coady, Staff Writer
May 14, 2019
The Pixies aren’t a particularly popular band. Most students at the school are more likely to be found with Taylor Swift singing “You Belong With Me” through their earbuds, or with Travis Scott’s bass-boosted tracks blaring through their car speakers on the way out of the parking lot. Of cour...
A New Method of Education: Student-led Discussions
Harry Bates, News Editor
May 3, 2019
With experimental education throughout the United States beginning to thrive, traditional methods regarding teaching future generations have come into question. Our public schooling system, at least in the United States, has virtually remained unchanged from one-room schoolhouses to modern high schoo...
The Cost of Carbonation
Harry Bates, News Editor
April 14, 2019
With adult and childhood obesity rates continuing to climb in the United States, lawmakers across the country are proposing methods to limit the consumption of soft drinks. From Berkeley, CA to Philadelphia, PA, localized legislative bodies are implementing a sugary drink tax in an effort to curve future heightened national weight e...
Discover credit in high school
Alec MacEachen, News Editor
April 8, 2019
Financial life in the United States is built off the backs of credit reports and scores. Every American aims to have a good credit score and credit cards are the easiest way to do this; the earlier a credit score is started the better. Hence, the growing demand for a new type of “student card,” spe...
Hollis Brookline Girls in STEM walk away with awards
Myra Morin, Staff Writer
March 26, 2019
On Feb. 15, the girls STEM program at Hollis Brookline took part in the NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) Award for Aspirations in Computing (AIC). The program awards students for their special skills in technology. This year, Hollis Brookline had 4 Rising Stars and one winn...
Senior year winds down
Alec MacEachen, News Editor
March 26, 2019
Senior year is simultaneously the most stressful and the most relaxed. College deadlines rapidly approach at the start of the year, the final seasons of sports wiz by, and the last chance to boost your GPA on the transcript is over too soon. Now in March, students are in the midst of receiving their...
Calling all Spanish students
Paisley Broadhurst, Staff Writer
March 14, 2019
In April of 2020, Alex Basbas, one of three Spanish teachers at Hollis Brookline, will be taking foreign language students across the world to Spain. Any student interested in this trip will be able to experience the Spanish culture first hand. “This will be the fourth Spanish trip,” Basbas said. It rota...
What’s the Spanish word for pregnant?
Josie Farwell, Staff Writer
March 8, 2019
Pregnant warrior, Erin Robbins, often referred to with her Spanish salutation as Senora Robbins, is maintaining her duties as a top-notch teacher while carrying her second child. With her second baby girl, Reilly Jo Robbins, on the way, Robbins has to stay focused on both teaching and staying healthy. ...
Michael Gillespie picked for all-state charity match for first time in HB history
Alec MacEachen, News Editor
March 8, 2019
Wide receiver and cornerback Michael Gillespie ‘19 is the first and only HB player to be picked for the CHaD football roster, which is an all-state game. Gillespie is ranked #23 in the state and is nationally ranked on MaxPreps, which is a national football and sports ranking website. He’ll be on the same team as Division 1 players from schools like Bedf...
![A piece of amber holds the skeleton of the smallest dinosaur ever discovered. The fossil was discovered in Northern Myanmar in March. “This [fossil] was so pristine and so well-preserved, this thing was super perfect,” said Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at China’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.](https://cavchronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OtherNews_MilesKeefe_News_Ready-300x200.jpg)
![Here at HBHS, this is a typical homework assignment from an AP level class. The amount of homework a student has can have disastrous effects on their health and sleep schedule. “Kids shouldn’t be given more than two hours of homework a day, [preferably] one hour a day outside of school,” said Christina Ellis.](https://cavchronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Hw_Elise-Dinbergs_OpEd-300x225.jpg)
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