This year’s retiring teachers
June 21, 2017
Filed under News, Showcase
Two teachers are retiring this year: dance and yoga teacher Kathleen Exar and health and fitness teacher Roberta Skoff. Read about their time at the high school and watch videos of their students and colleagues speaking about them below.
Baking with Susanna: Mother’s Day Lemon Bars
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
May 13, 2017
Filed under Arts, Showcase
You can surprise your mom by doing a nice deed and making her happy by baking for her on Mother’s Day tomorrow! These lemon squares are awesome; they’re tangy and sweet at the same time. For all you cookie dough lovers, you’ll be in dough heaven with this crust. It’s like cookie dough crust,...
Flag-raising ceremony honors Brookline slaves who fought in Revolutionary War
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
April 27, 2017
Filed under Conversations on Race, News, Showcase, Uncategorized
On Tuesday, students, teachers and members of the Brookline community came together for a flag-raising ceremony on Cypress Field honoring Adam, Peter and Prince, three slaves from Brookline who fought in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Lexington. After an introduction from history teacher M...
Baking with Susanna: Saint Patrick’s Day parfaits
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
March 17, 2017
Filed under Arts, Showcase
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to those who celebrate! I don’t often make fancy desserts. I eat my desserts because they taste good, and I’m usually too lazy for presentation or for dessert that requires utensils (except cake). But I have to say, this parfait is worth the time it takes to make it lo...
The secret life of custodians
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
January 31, 2017
Filed under Multimedia, News, Showcase
They read Freud for pleasure, do oil paintings and golf for charity. Watch the video to find out more about your custodians!
Q&A with Julie Schreiner-Oldham: Interim School Committee Member
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
January 17, 2017
Filed under News, Showcase
Julie Schreiner-Oldham is the new interim member of the School Committee as of Jan. 11. Prior to her election to the Committee, she served as the co-president of the Baker PTO. She has two children who attend the Baker school and a two-year-old. When her youngest daughter was born, Schreiner-Oldham, an ...
Quiz: How well do you know your teachers?
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
January 14, 2017
Filed under News, Quizzes, Showcase
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ROM: Shawarma King
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Writing Editor
December 8, 2016
Filed under Arts, Restaurant Reviews, Showcase
Shawarma King is a Lebanese restaurant on Beacon Street just outside of Coolidge Corner. At first glance, it seems like another fast food joint; a white sign taped to the window reads, “Don’t feel awful, eat Shawarma King falafel!” You pick up your food on paper plates at a counter, then sit d...
LAHB classes build confidence in reading
Susanna Kemp, Breaking News Editor
December 3, 2016
Filed under Hard News, News
In a room at the end of the middle school hallway at Driscoll, five 8th graders sit around a table reading a book during English class. Although most of them like to read now, that was not always the case. The Language and Academic Home Base program serves approximately 35 students starting in 3rd gra...
Student Feature: Tutors
Susanna Kemp, Staff Writer
January 23, 2016
Filed under News, Showcase
It's 3:20 p.m. and 25 students who participate in the Brookline Literacy Partnership are sitting excitedly on a bus en route to the Mather School in Dorchester. The BLP, which gives students the opportunity to participate for the whole year or one of the three seasonal sessions, is only one of the many programs...
Restaurant 108 cooks up camaraderie in class setting
Susanna Kemp, Staff Writer
January 13, 2016
Filed under Arts
The sweet smell of fresh-baked cookies is already present and wafting around the kitchen. The air is hot and humid from the ovens, grills and stoves. It’s not even 8 a.m. yet, but students are already hard at work in Restaurant 108. Restaurant 108 is one of the few classes in the high school in w...
Social justice internships vary between fulfilling and mundane
Susanna Kemp, Staff Writer
November 10, 2015
Filed under News
Students in Social Justice face a difficult choice when they state their internship preferences out of a list of 20 possibilities. Although it’s impossible to tell before starting which will be the most rewarding, picking the right one could be the difference between a meaningful experience and an...
Review: An Evening with Nik Walker
The excited chatter of Hamilton fans could be heard throughout the auditorium. People of all ages, both families and individual students, anxiously waited for the anticipated alum...
June 13, 2017
Baking with Susanna: trail mix cookies
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The Headlines of the Kennedy Years
Leon Yang, Co-Editor-in-Chief
We went to the archives to find headlines from old issues of our newspaper to see what stories were written during John F. Kennedy’s presidency. A few notable st...
June 15, 2017
Remembering Kennedy: Residents’ Stories
June 15, 2017
Kennedy advocated for the appreciation of art
June 14, 2017
JFK Presidential Library preserves legacy
June 14, 2017
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