Hanover’s Climate Action Plan: Striving for Sustainability
The Hanover High School Climate Action Plan (CAP), the only climate plan for a high school in the US, aims to reduce our carbon footprint to 77% percent of the 2016-17 footprint by 2050....
HHS Broadside
Profile: A Great Future in Climbing
Tyler Odell, a seventeen-year-old Mountaineering Club leader, good friend, and HHS student from rural Norwich, Vermont has the greatest passion for climbing I’ve ever seen. Tyler started his climbing career back when he was...
Profile: Skiing During a Pandemic
During a recent cross country ski race, Britta Arvold, a sophomore at Hanover High School, was confused when she sped up hills and she would watch her competitors fly past her on the downhills....
Profile: Living Life With a Smile
“I’m actually very happy to be on Zoom right now” is not a phrase we hear a lot eleven months into the pandemic. Yet this is what Hallie Baker stated during her interview. With...
Biden’s First Month
By 8:30 pm on January 20th, newly-sworn-in President Joe Biden had signed fifteen executive orders. These orders mainly concerned racial justice, climate change, the economy, and of course COVID-19. Most notably, Biden planned...
“Nyxia” Book Review
Nyxia is the debut novel of Scott Reintgen, and the blurb on the front cover describes the book as “A high octane thriller… Nyxia grabs you from the first line and never lets go:”...
“Earthlings” Book Review
My first thought when I finished reading “Earthlings” by Sayaka Murata, was “what the hell did I just read?” I received the book as a Christmas present from my mother. I had never heard...
A Capella Groups Adjust to COVID Challenges
There is not a single extracurricular activity that has remained completely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. From football to Model UN, Math Club to alpine skiing, clubs and sports in all areas of Hanover...
Interviews with New Staff
Martha Van der Drift What subject do you teach? I teach French. Where did you grow up? I grew up in a lot of places: Illinois, Ohio, and French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva area). What was...
Education, Compassion, and Ignorance
Sitting in the library as I write this essay, I see dozens of students taking their education for granted, walking to and from our cafeteria and wandering around the hallways to avoid returning...