Art Club Mural
January 27, 2011 • Keira Glasheen, Co-Editor in Chief
Filed under News, Uncategorized
At a time when art and music are disappearing from schools as a result of budget cuts Art Club has given the school a way to celebrate both of these programs. A mural with a musical theme has recently been completed by members of Art Club that has been four years in the making. Because the mural... Read more »
WHAP Students Model History with Pumpkins
November 9, 2010 • Keira Glasheen, Assistant Editor in Chief
Filed under News
AP World History, better known as WHAP, is notorious for being one of the hardest courses offered at our school. Anyone who has taken or is currently taking WHAP could attest to the amount of time and effort it takes to do well in the course. But recently the current WHAPpers were able to apply their... Read more »
Fall Fling: Having Fun with Newtonian Mechanics
November 4, 2010 • Michael Parker, Staff Writer
Filed under News
Fall Fling has been a tradition here for Physics student for as long as Mr. Simons has been teaching here at Clayton A. Bouton High School. For this annual event, Physics students get to team up with their friends to build trebuchets and then there is a competition to see whose launches the farthest.... Read more »
“Attention, we are now in lockdown.”
November 2, 2010 • Makayla-Courtney McGeeney, Staff Writer
Filed under News
On Monday October 25, 2010, Voorheesville students experienced the first lockdown of this year. Surely most classrooms got to hear the dogs barking, but not necessarily for the reason they thought. After a good forty minutes, everyone continued on their day conversing as to who could have possibly “gotten... Read more »
A Few Good Men Coming to VCHS
October 10, 2010 • Michael Parker, Staff Writer
Filed under News
For the first time in two years the Voorheesville Dionysians will be putting up two plays in one year. Usually there would be a non-musical in the fall and a musical in the spring but that has become more challenging which is why it hasn’t been that way for a few years. This has become possible again... Read more »
New Faces, Old Faces, Same Homecoming
October 9, 2010 • Josh Gibbons, Editor-in-Chief
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This past weekend marked another installment of Voorheesville’s Homecoming events. Prior to the Homecoming Dance on Saturday, October 2, Voorheesville students and teachers participated in Spirit Week, proudly donning the Purple and Gold. Unfortunately, the school’s annual Pep Rally was cancelled... Read more »
Helderbarker Readies for 2010-2011 School Year
August 31, 2010
Filed under News
The Helderbarker, Voorheesville’s student-run newspaper, is ready to go for the 2010-2011 school year. An interest meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 2:45 in room 124 of the high school. All interested students in grades 6-12 should attend. The Helderbarker moved... Read more »
Local Writer and Veteran Visits School
March 4, 2010 • Angela Barone, Staff Writer
Filed under News
On Tuesday, March 2, 2010, juniors and seniors of Voorheesville High School had the opportunity to hear the inspiring story of Ryan Smithson, a soldier with the United States army reserve who wrote a book, The Ghosts of War, about his experiences in Iraq. Smithson, who is from East Greenbush, decided... Read more »
Winter Wonder Land in Spring
March 4, 2010 • Darren Staples, Staff Writer
Filed under News
The weather of the past month has acted more like winter than the entire season has been. The snowstorms in February have brought a drastic 21.6 inches. With this, the school had to call a contingency day. This loss of school is a sweet and sour aspect of snow because students lose a day off of their... Read more »
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
February 22, 2010 • Josh Gibbons, Editor-in-Chief
Filed under News
On Friday, February 12, Physics students competed in a special boat race. Students were excused from their regularly scheduled classes via an in-house field trip. “The purpose of the competition was to focus on different laws of physics,” said Ted Simons, the High School’s Physics teacher and Science... Read more »
