The Official Newspaper of Marblehead High School
Thanksgiving is a major holiday in the United States. It is a holiday revolving around food and family, but it can be hard when you only eat certain foods. It’s always hard to find things to eat when you’re a vegetarian on Thanksgiving, as one of the main courses is based solely on meat. So…
The food that Marblehead High Schoolers throw out every day can take as long as two years to compost. Over this same period of time, MHS students have developed the school’s composting program, a project born in 2017, but one that they continue to perfect. Over the past two years, the basics of the program…
Growing up in a small town allows us to make close friends and is a wonderful way to find the friend group that fits us. But over time, we begin to only associate with our small groups. Today, branch out and leave your shell by following the simple steps below. This activity can be done…
Clueless, Mean Girls, The Duff, and High school Musical (1, 2, and 3) all have something in common. These are all movies outlining the unrealistic daily life of any high schooler. Even though I know that those movies are wildly inaccurate, freshmen do know that the coming year will be very different from years prior….
This fall, the MHS drama club is putting on a production of Peter/Wendy, a simple version of the classic Peter Pan story. Performances are Friday, the 15th of November at 7 PM and Saturday, the 16th at 7 PM. In addition to the performances this November, Peter/Wendy will compete in the Massachusetts Education Theater Guild…
It’s not just a tourist destination. It’s destroyed lives. It’s broken families. It’s fragmented lifetimes and unfulfilled potentials. But you wouldn’t know. Because tour groups traipse along the wide, sunny path, because children leap over train tracks, because life rings through the air. Two million people visit Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp every year. During the summer…
The subject of the Hong Kong protests has been everywhere in the news recently. It seems that almost no one understands why they are happening. In order to understand the reasons behind the trouble, the history of the problem should be examined. In 1997, Hong Kong stopped being a British colony and was placed under…
Last year, Madison Bates from the class of 2019 founded a chapter of the National Green Schools Society (NGSS) at Marblehead High School. NGSS is an honor society that gives students recognition for their environmental service. Students are required to complete at least 20 hours of environmental service each year to receive awards and recognition….
Since July of this year, we’ve been bombarded with news articles concerning President Trump and Ukraine (more specifically, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky). This controversy has prompted Democrats to call for impeachment. However, the details on what really happened are still blurry, and we still aren’t quite sure what went on behind the scenes. In August,…
A series dedicated to the posters, murals, pictures, and miscellaneous objects that fill the classrooms of Marblehead High School, and the stories behind these decorations. Every school day, Daniel Ritchie teaches his students about the history of the United States, detailing American life from the first colonizers up to the 2016 election. The 2019-20 school…