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Staples students and teachers predict tomorrow’s forecast

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Andrea Frost

Mother Nature is at it again.
Yesterday, Westport schools were closed due to heavy snowfall. Tomorrow, an even greater amount of snow is predicted to blanket the town to create an accumulation of nearly a foot of snow on the ground.
According to Jacob Meisel ’13, a meteorologist for Southwestern Connecticut, reporting from Harvard University, there will be 3 to 7 inches of snowfall tomorrow.

Around school today, students and teachers forecasted what Superintendent Elliott Landon will decide to do with tomorrow’s school day.
“I think we will at least have a delayed opening,” English teacher, Megan Scheck said.
English teacher Elizabeth Humphrey Koperwhats said she’s hoping “if there is a delay, the phone call is early.” Koperwhats was referencing the late call Superintendent Elliott Landon made for Monday’s snow day.

Students are more convinced than teachers that tomorrow will be a snow day, not just a delay.

Confident he won’t be coming to school tomorrow, Will Haskell ’14 said despite his best intentions to get ahead on homework and study his lines for the upcoming school play Avenue Q, he knows he’ll just end up going to the diner with friends. “It’s a snow day staple.”

Pleased with Landon’s choice to call a snow day yesterday, Haskell said, “The only thing better than a three day weekend is a surprise three day weekend.” Adding another snow day this week will only make Haskell happier, he said.

Teachers are also planning how they will spend the wintery afternoon if they are not working.

Scheck is excited to build snowmen with her two-year-old tomorrow while Spanish teacher Priscilla Wentworth will use the day off to finally clean her house.
Only time will tell whether or not school will be called off tomorrow.

Shannon Cardoza ’15 advises other students to follow her safe approach to complete all their homework due tomorrow. “Everyone’s saying that we’ll have a snow day, but in my opinion I’m not gonna bank on it until I get that phone call tomorrow morning.”
Meisel’s latest post on his weather blog predicted a 95% chance there will be a snow day tomorrow.

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Taylor Harrington, Breaking News Managing Editor
Taylor Harrington ’15 has been through the ropes before. As Breaking News Managing Editor, Harrington enters her second year on Inklings with a prestigious position and nothing but a positive attitude.   There’s no one word that describes Harrington, but outgoing, creative, and amiable are the closest fits. If asked to put her persona in a nutshell, her love for people would be the common denominator.   “Whether it’s helping the underprivileged, supervising four-year old kids, or hanging out with my friends, my life revolves around people,” Harrington said.   One of Harrington’s favorite parts about Inklings is the social media aspect. Known for her big-hit video, 2013 Inklings year in review, Harrington’s pure creativity is shown in all her work.   Aside from Inklings, she spends the majority of her time after school as the secretary of the Best Buddies club and volunteers for the National Charity League (NCL). Over the summer, Harrington hung out with her Best Buddy on a consistent basis. Her involvement ranged from planned events to baseball games with him.   Harrington’s passion for helping will continue this year as a part of the NCL, a mother-daughter organization that assists with charitable events in the community. Specifically, she and the senior class will be doing a project to decorate the room of a little girl who was recently diagnosed with cancer.   “She wants a pink and purple princess room, so that's what we are going to give her,” Harrington said.   But Harrington’s claim to fame is her superb baking skills. The non-existent bakery, as she likes to call it, is her assortment of exotic desserts on Instagram. After baking one of her mouth-watering masterpieces, Harrington will post a picture of it on Instagram and label it “my non-existent bakery.”
Andrea Frost, Breaking News Managing Editor
Andrea Frost ’15 is not only a great writer but a very committed dancer at Westport Company. She takes classes in just about every style of dance including ballet, jazz, modern, tap, and point. Though her favorite style of dance to perform is jazz. “It’s the most energetic and you get to be sassy, where with ballet you have many more restrictions,” Frost said. Being the dedicated dancer that she is, she is at the studio ten hours a week (not including her weekend morning classes) honing her skills. Though she doubts that she will bring her talent to a professional stage, she is passionate and hopes to keep dance a part of her life in anyway possible. Balancing dance and Inklings may be difficult, but Frost proves it possible since she is the Breaking News Managing Editor. Which can be attributed to never growing out of  always asking why. However, curiosity wasn’t what first drew Frost into advanced journalism. She said that it is the community that really is the benefit of the paper, going on to further add that it is similar to the company dancers at Westport Company. Possible due to the  close knit fabric of the paper and the friendly yet competitive atmosphere. Whether she is dancing in the Nutcracker or writing her latest piece for Inklings, Frost is passionate and feeds that passion into her writing.

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