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Hockey team ready for promising season

Hockey team ready for promising season

EDDIE MAHONEY, Staff Writer December 9, 2015

The GHS hockey team went on their annual Vermont trip last Friday where they played two of the best ranked teams in Vermont. The team is coming off of their best previous season in the past four years...

High-achieving students pose for a photo with Principal Erik Anderson on Wednesday night

Students honored for academic achievement

RACHEL ALEXANDER, Staff Writer November 20, 2015

On November 18th, nineteen students were named Sawyer Medal recipients. The top ten students in the freshmen class and the top five from the sophomore class were awarded the medal on Wednesday night. From...

Students listen as deputy McCarthy speaks to them about the Police Academy

GHS recruits students for Police Academy

GIANNA CABRAL, Staff Writer November 20, 2015

Through real life scenarios, students in the Gloucester U Police Academy have been able to take a look into the lives of police officers. Throughout the class, the group has taken educational field...

Geraghty awarded JROTC Legion of Valor Bronze Cross

Geraghty awarded JROTC Legion of Valor Bronze Cross

MARIA KOTOB, Staff Writer November 19, 2015

The Legion of Valor Bronze Cross was awarded to GHS senior Amy Geraghty on Thursday.  Only five students win this award each year in the region, which reaches from the coast of Maine to North Carolina....

Katelyn Moore and Corryn Ulrich with their new IDs

Administration aims to enforce IDs

ERIN TETTONI, Staff Writer November 10, 2015

School pictures are back, and with them came student IDs. This year, administration says they will be enforcing them, and the expectation is that students and faculty alike will abide by the rule. According...

Sefatia Romeo Theken waves to supporters after winning the mayoral election

Romeo Theken officially Gloucester’s mayor

CAROLINE ENOS, Staff Writer November 3, 2015

Gloucester’s interim mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken is here to stay after beating opponent Paul McGeary in the 2015 mayoral election. Romeo Theken raked in 5266 votes while McGeary received 4134 votes. “Thank...

Opinion: Directing students away from their studies

Opinion: Directing students away from their studies

EDDIE MAHONEY, Staff Writer October 28, 2015

When I came into my senior year,  I thought it would be a good idea to take a directed study. I am taking two Advanced Placement classes, and wanted to make sure that I could keep up with the work load....

Many different animals can be seen in the Cabinet of Death

Cabinet of Death inspires student creativity

ERIN TETTONI, Staff Writer October 20, 2015

Recently, Gloucester High School’s honors art students used GHS science teacher, David Enos’s Cabinet of Death as inspiration for a still life project that will be part of a portfolio. The still life...

DIY Halloween costumes

DIY Halloween costumes

MARIA KOTOB, Staff Writer October 19, 2015

As summer ends and fall starts, Halloween seems to come quicker than we realize. Costumes can range from $30 to $75, which is a lot to students who are jobless or don’t want to spend that kind of money...

Opinion: Its cool (not) to be cool

Opinion: It’s cool (not) to be cool

CAROLINE ENOS, Staff Writer October 16, 2015

Society has associated being “cool” with being mainstream. Teens have been pressured to think that being mainstream is the only way to be considered normal, and that being out of this crowd means that...

New band teacher Aaron Staluppi (left) with music student Lukas Struppe.

Docksiders welcome new band leader

HANNAH ZUIDEMA, Staff Writer September 10, 2015

Aaron Staluppi, the new director of the Gloucester High School Docksiders, is one of three new music teachers in the Gloucester Public Schools district. With new programs that have been started this past...

New GHS photo teacher, and professional boxing photographer, Emily Harney

Boxing photographer Emily Harney joins GHS staff

MARIA KOTOB, Staff Writer September 10, 2015

Born and raised in Salem, MA, Emily Harney originally began photography in high school. She began her teaching career when she discovered her love for watching kids learn and love art. “I love giving...

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