Student Drivers
November 1, 2011 • Jeff Burnham, Staff Writer
Filed under Opinion, Top Stories, Uncategorized
As a new driver I begin to realize how fun driving can be. It is also so much more convenient to be able to drive yourself places than having to try to find a ride everywhere you want to go, but when you’re behind the wheel you have the potential to hurt yourself and others if you do something... Read more »
Voorheesville Singers to Sing on WMHT Music for the Holidays
November 1, 2011 • Carla Planz, Staff Writer
Filed under News, Top Stories
Just two weeks ago, the Voorheesville female and male select choirs joined together for a one hour long rehearsal, to practice, and to quickly perfect two Christmas songs to be sung for an audition for WMHT’s Music for the Holidays show. As a member of the Phoenix Club, I knew that our choir’s chances... Read more »
Fall Fling Firsts
November 4, 2011 • Keira Glasheen, Editor-in-Chief
Filed under News, Top Stories
Every year the Regents physics students look forward to participating in the Fall Fling, an in school field trip that Mr. Simons puts on at the end of the first quarter. Students are required to build human powered devices that can fling a tennis ball across the football field. Well, that’s... Read more »
Is the School Paranoid?
November 8, 2011 • Mark Guido, Opinion Editor
Filed under Opinion, Top Stories
Most people believe that paranoia is a crippling state of mind, but I see it more as a double-edged decision maker. There’s plenty of irrational fear and unwarranted stress, sure, and that’s not exactly peachy, but paranoia also serves as a great check to arrogance- reminding us that people don’t... Read more »
Voorheesville Singers to Appear on WMHT
November 8, 2011
Filed under Video
Sports Injuries: The Challenges of Returning
November 8, 2011 • Ryan Clayton, Sports Co-Editor
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
The tangible effects of a sports injury may be gone, but the psychological effects may still be there. A sports injury, simply put, is a traumatic effect, one that can produce lasting damage to an athlete’s confidence in his or her own abilities. A player can return to a sport as the same person physically... Read more »
You Have No Idea
November 14, 2011 • Maeve Brennan, Staff Writer
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Some people under estimate cross country, to them it’s just a whole lot of running, but to those people I say “you have no idea”. Cross country is 3.2 miles of mental toughness and athletic ability. Cross country courses are all different, some are full of hills, some have a few hills,others are... Read more »
