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CAD student launches the boat he designed and printed using Solidworks technology.

3D printing floats CAD’s boat

WILLA BROSNIHAN, STAFF WRITER May 14, 2019

This Tuesday Kathy Lane’s Computer Aided Design students tested out 3D printed boats that they had designed themselves. The class floated their boats off Dunfudgin Public Boat Ramp behind Gloucester...

Emily and Lynne Fricks winning gingerbread-church

GHS junior wins gingerbread house contest

WILLA BROSNIHAN, Staff Writer December 11, 2018

A ‘Mamma Mia!’ themed gingerbread house made by GHS student Emily Frick and her mother Lynne Frick has placed first in the annual Middle Street Walk gingerbread house contest. The mother-daughter...

Eddy Redmayne in his starring role of Newt Scamander

Fantastic Beasts: A Disappointing Sequel

WILLA BROSNIHAN, Staff Writer December 8, 2018

SPOILERS The newest movie in the Harry Potter franchise is "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," and I didn’t think it lived up to the precedent set by the first "Fantastic Beasts." The plot...

The Lobster trap Hannukkiah, lit on the first night of Hanukkah, 2018.

Menorah Lighting Promotes Solidarity

CATHERINE CANAVAN-DYSTHE and WILLA BROSNIHAN December 7, 2018

The city of Gloucester came together last Tuesday to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah at the Temple Ahavat Achim, lighting the nation’s only lobster trap hanukkiah, or menorah. The ceremony was...

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Sun Woman

Willa Brosnihan November 1, 2018

  Sun Woman   She reached her arms across the water, hands holding twigs, pine needles, leaves dried on flat hot rocks, arranged them in the dips between the hills, lit...

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