The decision to take a year off after graduating high school and before beginning college was not spur of the moment for me. I had been thinking about taking a gap year for some time, beginning, I believe, in my junior year of high school, when I found myself up to my ears in school work and Read More
Leaving Newburyport, Finding Home
As summer draws to a close and fall appears now, I am grappling with the bittersweet knowledge that for myself and my fellow 2014 high school graduates, a chapter of our lives is coming to a close, and the end of an era is fast approaching. On the one hand, I can’t help but look forward to the Read More
Newburyport Student Looks At the College Selection Process
As I stepped up to receive my high school diploma a few Sundays ago, the college search process was far from my mind. It seemed like eons ago that I was lost at Goucher College because my tour guide abandoned me while I was in the bathroom. The thing I remember the most vividly about my college Read More
April Means Books are Blooming in Newburyport
Although spring may be taking its time coming to Newburyport, it will certainly be invading the Newburyport Public Library on April 5th, the night of the 3rd annual Books-In-Bloom Fundraiser. Longtime school librarian, and Friends of the Library Board member Judy Avery shared some of the history Read More
Visit Newbury’s Spencer Peirce Farm
When friends from out of town ask me what places they need to see in order to get a real taste of the area, without fail, I always tell them to visit the Spencer Peirce Little Farm in Newbury. If you travel down High Street towards Tendercrop Farm and make a left onto Little's Lane, you will be Read More
A Survival Guide for Sophomore Students and Parents
It is a well-known fact among high school students that Junior year is a cleverly designed plot by vindictive educators to suck the happiness and hope from naïve students. As a recent survivor, I can attest to this. Between the massive workload, anxiety associated with starting the college Read More
Slam Poetry Team at NHS
It was with bitter disappointment that I accepted the cruel hand fate had dealt me; I was simply not designed to be an athlete. The four sets of stairs I had to climb throughout the day to get to my classes at Newburyport High School brutally reiterated this. But, rather than resign myself to a Read More