As if the beginning of the school year didn’t include enough already, an immensely large percentage of seniors are trying to cram in college applications as well. Seniors who are applying to college...
October is a wonderful month, featuring Halloween, fall, and pumpkin-spiced everything; but did you know it’s National Farm to School Month? “Farm to School” is a partnership program dedicated to...
This Friday yields one of the most exciting and anticipated in-school events of the year, the AP Physics I Trebuchet day. Every year, the physics students of Hollis Brookline High School lay awake in their...
This year’s Homecoming festivities were a blowout success, with higher attendance among both upper and lower classmen, quality concessions, and genuinely good spirits all around. The event ran from 7-10...
Student council: a group that often goes overlooked by the student body at large, yet they are at the core of all that goes on for their class, especially senior year. Without the Student Council, though,...
On Oct. 10, students at Hollis Brookline High School gathered to listen to James Orrigo, founder and CEO of “Lad in a Battle”, during sixth period in the community auditorium. The motivational presentation...
On Thursday September 28th, 148 teachers and staff from across the district came together to participate in the first annual 2Run5k, a road race held on the HBHS campus. The race, a new addition to the...
The Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA) recognized sen
ior Allie Campbell’s exceptional recycling efforts on Tuesday, May 23 at their annual conference, naming her “Outstanding Student...
The HBHS Robotics team brought home a silver medal from the FIRST World Championships early this month, where they competed among more than 400 other teams in St. Louis, Missouri. After weeks of designing,...
Mario Barassi, Assistant Sports Editor
• May 25, 2017
It is on the news every day: a local trial going on in the community. Sometimes the suit is a high profile case, such as the Aaron Hernandez murder trial, or the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Judges are...
![Ryan Farquhar, local renaissance man, puts the finishing touches on his treb for last year’s project. His group built an interesting variant on the base trebuchet using a design called a “murlin,” using various ropes to increase the acceleration of the machine. “[Trebuchet Day] is the big hurrah of the year for physics,” said Perry.](https://cavchronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Webready_Coffee-Diem_Joseph-Schunemann_News-900x600.jpg)
![James Orrigo presents an emotionally moving video of “Katherine the Brave,” a girl who passed away from an incurable form of brain cancer on June 6, 2016. Orrigo dedicates himself to creating lasting legacies for suffering pediatric cancer patients by producing music videos co-written by those same children right from their hospital beds. “I think [Lad in a Battle] really had a positive effect on the student body, because it gave a powerful message of turning overly negative energy into positive actions,” says Max Porter ‘18.](https://cavchronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/WEBREADY_Lad-in-a-Battle-visits-HBHS_Patrick-Bloniasz_News-900x600.jpg)
![Steven Crooks grades a lab from his AP Physics 1 class. He is a new teacher, but already helping his students succeed with his grading philosophies and policies. “I want to see the thought process [in their work],” said Crooks.](https://cavchronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Grading-Philosophies-300x225.jpg)
