For me, the holiday season is one of the best times of year to be in Newburyport. It is around this time of year where the city looks like a Currier and Ives scene before the snow turns to brown slush. The city comes to life. One of the first official events of the holiday season for Newburyport Read More
Volunteering at Special Olympics in Greater Newburyport
Each November my school, The Governor's Academy, hosts the Special Olympics Massachusetts soccer tournament in Byfield. Students are encouraged to get involved in the tournament and are rewarded with community service hours. My freshman year, I volunteered purely to meet the community service 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
The College Admissions Process. Anytime, Laura!
I have just returned from the dreaded pre-senior year college road trip and am pleased to say that I did survive! Six days of driving from one school to the next, interviewing, touring, asking questions, talking to students, and sitting through information sessions can be quite overwhelming. Read More
Volunteering at Greater Newburyport’s Feline Rescue Center
I have always loved helping animals. When I was a young child, my babysitter worked with an organization to take stray cats into her house in the hopes that people would adopt them and give them homes. Sometimes people would drop off or surrender cats at her house if they couldn't take care of Read More
Local Recap of Yankee Homecoming in Newburyport
Is there a downside to Yankee Homecoming? Wonderful Yankee Homecoming, Newburyport's week long festival of live music, fresh food, and entertaining events ranging from parades to road races is highly anticipated by almost everyone within a 30 mile radius. Most can fondly remember the smell of Read More
The Price of Independence and Teen Jobs in Newburyport
It is finally summer and for most Greater Newburyport teens, the initial days of freedom have passed and it is now time to buckle down. Whether it be sports practices, the college search, volunteering or the most common: a summer job, teens everywhere are regaining some sense of 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
Rights of Passage and Prom Night
The Modern Prom As a high school girl, Spring is not only a time of anticipation and excitement of Summer for me, but also a time of tremendous stress. Yes, much of this stress is amounted from finishing up course work and cramming for final exams but an significant amount added onto this is Read More
Novelist Lehane Speaks to Greater Newburyport Students
Do What You Love, Love What You Do. Yesterday, world renowned author Dennis Lehane, (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island) came to my school, The Governors Academy, as our common book author. This meant that our entire school, faculty and students alike, had been forced to read one of Read More