On a sunny Saturday afternoon, hundreds of visitors roamed around Jesup Green to enjoy the third annual Mini Maker Faire, where people of all ages were encouraged to experiment with and experience the...
After Thursday’s destructive flood of Yik Yak comments swept Staples, Westport’s administration moved swiftly to block use of the app at all district schools.
“The site was blocked [Thursday] on...
Thursday, throughout Staples, students were huddled around their phones updating their friends on the latest comments from the app that had gone viral within minutes: Yik Yak, the newest anonymous social...
Yik Yak storms Staples - Students' downloading of the app resulted in posts described as "vulgar" and prompted a reaction from the administration.
Yik Yak blasts into Fairfield County - The app has...
There was a gloomy atmosphere throughout Staples today as students and faculty mourned the loss of an exceptional educator and woman, Donna Kenny.
During Kenny’s time at Staples, she was awarded a Celebration...
Abjure, abrogate, adumbrate, anathema. For years, the words have endured in prep books and online Quizlet notecards and have been mainstays on high school vocabulary tests. But the terms may soon fall...
The entire gym is flooded with noise, jumbled with energetic cheers ringing in perfect unison. Encouraging shouts boom from the audience, ranging in number anywhere from 40 to 200 people. As the boys’...
On any given weeknight, students open tabs to Twitter and Facebook between homework assignments. Members of Players have changed their profile picture to an onstage photo of their upcoming show. Superfans...
Many Staples students recently traveled to the Dominican Republic with the program Builders Beyond Borders (B3) to build homes, schools and to improve the lives of those less fortunate. However, some students...
A week ago, at Sheridan High School in Arkansas, school officials censored the school yearbook because of a profile written on an openly gay student, Taylor Ellis. The school demanded that all profiles...
Thursday night’s Board of Finance meeting sparked debate and discussion, but ultimately resulted in the approval of the BOE’s proposed budget in a 4-3 vote.
The budget proposal, a 4.82 percent increase...
