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The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

The seniors always try to keep their Spirit Week theme behind closed doors.

Spirit Week secrecy

Parker Coady, Op/Ed Editor March 13, 2017

While Spirit Week’s skits and jokes have changed from year to year, one tradition has remained constant: the senior skit’s secrecy. Or, at least, they’ve tried to keep it constant.   While...

The sophomore class practices their Spirit Week skit outside.

Spirit Week skits

Curtis Newton, Managing Editor March 13, 2017

During Spirit Week, all classes spend time after school to work on posters, props, dancing, and the pep rally skit.  This year, the underclassmen worked as hard as ever, and on Friday, February 24, they...

Picking a theme can take time, but the seniors have known their theme since sophomore year.

Picking the theme

Kaitlin Johnson, Staff Writer March 13, 2017

Picking a theme for the class of 2017’s Spirit Week skit came very easily to Student Council. Senior class representative Natalie Paquin said, “Since sophomore year, there was always an idea of Magic...

Some students made the Spirit Week themes into puns on their costumes.

Creative takes on Spirit Week

Brock Radford, Staff Writer March 13, 2017

The various themes for Spirit Week were colorful, creative and liberating for many students. For some, however, that wasn’t enough - they decided to take it one step further. For example, Anthony Basque...

Class of 2018 prepares their posters on tie dye day.

Different Spirit Week days

Emily O'Brien, Staff Writer March 13, 2017

The week before February break, HB has different crazy dress up days for Spirit Week. From USA pride schoolwide, to relaxing in pajamas on pajama day, each person who dresses up gets a point for their...

Students sitting with the class jars on the last day of Penny Wars. From left to right: Nathan Buckley 17. Chris Aulbach 17, Caitlin Ross 17, Audra Paradie 17, and Abby Lewis 17.

Penny Wars

JP Blasi, Staff Writer March 10, 2017

An annual tradition during the second half of the HB school year is the rounding up of loose change (especially pennies) by students in order to donate to a charity during Spirit Week. When asked how long...

HB Library Manicures

February 21, 2017

Games for Wedesday February 2

Announcements, Writer February 15, 2017

Games for Wednesday February 2 : Unified Basketball hosts Alvirne at 3:30 p.m. Ice Hockey at ConVal (Winchendon Ice Arena), bus at 3:30 p.m. and game at 6 p.m. Girls Basketball at Bow, bus at...

Games for Sunday Feb 5

February 3, 2017

Games for Sunday Feb 5 : The Indoor Track team will compete at the NHIAA Division II State Tournament at Dartmouth, bus at 12:45 p.m., meet at 3:30 p.m.

Rotary Club Four-Way Test Speech Competition

Announcements, Writer January 26, 2017

During the spring semester, the Hollis Brookline Rotary Club plans to offer a Four-Way Test Speech Competition for high school students. Students must prepare a five to seven minute speech to illustrate...

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