Monthly Archive: October 2011

by Carl Tischbein As I drove up Route 14 through Hartford, the urban areas of White River Junction slowly faded away into a depressing sight. As the road wrapped around the frequent bends in...

By Sonya Gurwitt It was raining as my brother Sam and I got out of the car in front of the old barn in Greensboro, VT. We carried our suitcases down the hill to...

By Emma Burnham Every day, 22,000 children around the world die of preventable causes, said Kul Gautam, former deputy executive director of Unicef (the United Nations Children’s Fund), who was in town on September...

By James Wolfe James Harvard, a Council member at Hanover High, attended the American Legion Boys Nation program in Washington, D.C. this summer. We interviewed him about his experiences. Boys State, a state government...

By Rachel Margolis On July 9, 51 high school students gathered at the Newseum, the acclaimed media museum in Washington, D.C., to officially begin the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference. “This is...

By Katherine Chen Hanover High School Senior Annelise Brinck-Johnsen spent last spring in D.C. as a U.S. Senate page. She was one of thirty high school juniors who worked on the Senate floor for...

By Gabe Brison-Trezise I am glad to report that Council’s first few meetings of the year were engaging and productive. Although the school year is still less than a month old, Council has already...