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State Department tries to declassify Clinton emails by bribing FBI

State Department tries to declassify Clinton emails by bribing FBI

Brett Franklin '18, Assistant Business Manager October 19, 2016

New documents revealed on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, that FBI agents received a “quid pro quo” by a leading State Department official. The deal was to unclassify an email from Hillary Clinton’s private...

Bridgewater Associates threatened with bomb

Bridgewater Associates threatened with bomb

Ben Stein '18, Staff Writer October 14, 2016

Bridgewater Associates facilities in Westport received a bomb threat at its 1 Glendinning Pl, headquarters on Wednesday around 3:30 p.m. It is unsure how the threat was conveyed and who at the Hedge...

Westport Public Schools proves absent in 2016 National Blue Ribbon honorees release

Westport Public Schools proves absent in 2016 National Blue Ribbon honorees release

Becky Hoving '17, Managing Editor September 29, 2016

Becky Hoving '17, Managing Editor The U.S. Department of Education announced this year’s National Blue Ribbon Schools on Sept. 28, 2016, yet not one of the 329 schools awarded were in Fairfield County....

Fiery crash on I-95 results in fatality, heavy traffic

Fiery crash on I-95 results in fatality, heavy traffic

Jesse Levinson '17, Web Opinions Editor September 29, 2016

Jesse Levinson '17, Web Opinions Editor At approximately 6 p.m. on Sept. 28, a sewage-carrying tractor overturned and collided with a car near Exit 17 on I-95 Southbound, causing the truck to go up...

Arnold Palmer’s death shakes Staples community

Arnold Palmer’s death shakes Staples community

Kit Epstein, Web Opinions Editor September 27, 2016

Kit Epstein '17, Breaking News Managing Editor Arnold Palmer, four time winner of The Masters Golf Tournament and receiver of the 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom, died at 87 due to heart complications...

50 dead and 53 injured in largest mass shooting in United States history

50 dead and 53 injured in largest mass shooting in United States history

Claire Dinshaw, Editor June 13, 2016

Fifty people were killed and 53 injured in a shooting at the Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on June 12. The casualty count makes this the worst mass shooting in recent United States...

AP announces Clinton’s Democratic nomination and causes confusion

AP announces Clinton’s Democratic nomination and causes confusion

Molly Liebergall, Web News Editor June 7, 2016

Last night, the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton had secured the Democratic Nomination according to their recent superdelegate count, despite its being released before tonight’s six remaining...

Staples Got Class makes schedule sharing easier for students

“Staples Got Class” makes schedule sharing easier for students

Kit Epstein, Web Opinions Editor June 1, 2016

On Tuesday, May 31, Dylan Diamond ’17 released his sixth iPhone application, “Staples Got Class.” “Staples Got Class” is a schedule sharing application available for all iOS devices in the...

Staples alum secures “The Voice” victory

Staples alum secures “The Voice” victory

Kaila Finn, Web News Editor May 29, 2016

After months of support and anticipation from the community, Staples graduate Alisan Porter took to “The Voice” stage on Tuesday, May 25 to claim her trophy. In describing the winning moment, Staples...

Officer Edward Nero found not guilty in Freddie Gray case

Officer Edward Nero found not guilty in Freddie Gray case

Anay Simunovic, Opinions Editor May 26, 2016

On Monday, May 23 Judge Barry Williams found Baltimore police officer Edward Nero not guilty. Officer Nero was involved in the Freddie Gray case and was being charged for  second-degree assault, reckless...

Obama administration directs all U.S. public schools to allow transgender students access to the bathroom of their choice

Obama administration directs all U.S. public schools to allow transgender students access to the bathroom of their choice

Colette Lippman, Staff Writer May 16, 2016

Students are now allowed access to the bathrooms and locker rooms coinciding with their gender identities, rather than the sex identified on their birth certificates, the Obama Administration declared...

May 6, 2016

D'Amico brings community and change to principal's office Front Page Story: Margaux MacColl '16 and Sarah Sommer '16 | Video: Jimmy Ray Stagg '16   Next year, Staples High School will undergo...

Connecticut Primary continues to help leading candidates

Connecticut Primary continues to help leading candidates

Amelia Brown, Sports Editor April 28, 2016

Many seniors joined the world of adulthood yesterday morning when they filed into Coleytown Middle School, Long Lots, Saugatuck and Greens Farms Elementary Schools as well as the Westport Library to vote...

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