Skip to Main Content

The Gillnetter

The student news site of Gloucester High School in Gloucester, MA

  • Bunker hill reenactment on the 21st-22nd
  • No school on June 19th!
  • Finals are the 23rd-25th!

The Gillnetter

The Gillnetter

Mr. Nicastro guards the bathrooms while Aidan Donald, Peter Zappa, Jack Costanzo and Noah Willett wait in line .

Open the bathrooms, please

JENNA SMITH, Contributor February 1, 2022

Dear Gloucester High School Administration,  My name is Jenna Smith, a senior who attends Gloucester High School. I am part of various extracurriculars, including  sports, President of the Interact...

Another day, another bathroom policy

Another day, another bathroom policy

ELISE AMARAL, Arts and Culture Editor January 27, 2022

All around GHS bathrooms are locked and students are getting annoyed. I have been at GHS for almost four years now, and in those four years I have experienced a number of bathroom policies that all...

Stop using OCD as an adjective

AURELIA HARRISON, Staff Writer January 18, 2022

In my freshman year of high school, I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD.  I’ve known something was off since I was little. There were things I did, and thoughts I had, that...

Gloucester Oneseas, made by Jill Josephson, on display at Present, a seasonal pop-up shop run by local artisans, on Main Street in Gloucester

Shop small, shop local this holiday season

ELISE AMARAL, Staff Writer December 2, 2021

As the holidays approach, you’re beginning to think about the special people in your life and what to get them for the holidays. In the Cape Ann area, there are various small businesses you can shop...

A letter from a young teacher

A letter from a young teacher

November 4, 2021

Dear School Committee, I am writing to you as the future of Gloucester teachers. Someone who came here to teach as a proud, accomplished product of the Gloucester Public School System. Someone who planned...

An open letter to the School Committee

An open letter to the School Committee

CELESTINO BASILE, Program Leader, GHS World Language Teacher October 13, 2021

Dear School Committee members, My name is Celestino Basile. Some may know me because I have been a teacher in the Gloucester Public Schools since September 1984; thirty-seven years and still going strong. The...

You're not the problem, it's social media.

You’re not the problem, it’s social media.

CLARA DEL VECCHIO, News editor October 13, 2021

Instagram is a social media site known to have a negative impact on the self esteem of its users, especially teenage girls, and the company, owned by FaceBook, has been withholding research proving the...

Time to hit the books!

The case for and against summer reading

CLARA DEL VECCHIO, Staff Writer June 2, 2021

Now that the long and chaotic school year marred by the pandemic is coming to an end, students are preparing for even more work over the summer. Summer reading is a highly debated topic between students...

Caitlyn Muniz leaps across the stage at a competition

If dance is a sport, then GHS should have a dance team

CAITLYN MUNIZ, Contributor May 26, 2021

It is no doubt that along with having artistic qualities, dance is more importantly an underrated and strenuous sport. As a dancer myself, we go through so much physical, mental, and emotional pain and...

View of the US Capitol in March 2017, taken on our 8th grade trip to D.C.

Reflecting on the Trump presidency

OWEN HARDY, Staff Writer, Editor January 20, 2021

I will always remember the morning of Wednesday, November 9th, 2016. My blaring alarm signaled the start of a new day. Little did I know, this day, and the four years following it, would be different.  The...

Art by Cat C-D

Maybe 2020 wasn’t all bad

BAILEY SAPUTO, Staff Writer December 31, 2020

The year 2020 may go down in history as one of the most chaotic years in this century.  Wildfires, a global pandemic, people quarantining for months on end, UFO scares, murder hornets; the list goes on.  Despite...

Art by Cat C-D

Holidays for the gays

AIS COOK and CLARA DEL VECCHIO December 11, 2020

As the holidays approach and people are looking for places to buy gifts, it’s important to be mindful of where you are shopping. With homophobia still rampant and normalized in modern day society, this...

Load More Stories