Let it Rain Aaron Hendel ’14 Breaking News Managing Editor I love the rain. I know I’m in the minority, but to me there’s no better weather. It’s getting to be that rainy time of year,...

When it’s short, it’s a shock or a buzz or a cut or a coif. When it’s long, it’s a mane or a mop or flow, or lettuce — in fact, in the case of lettuce, sometimes it’s a full house salad. When...

When Darryle Wiggins ’14 tore his meniscus this basketball off-season, the doctors told him he was done. They told him he was looking at a three-month recuperation period. They told him he would spend...

Fourteen years ago, a toddling pre-school-age Connor McCann ’14 had the sudden urge to pick up a pencil and a piece of paper to scratch out, for the first time, an image he had unwittingly conjured in...

“USA Today” announced Friday Staples’ football Head Coach Marce Petroccio in the top eight high school coaches in the state and top 408 high school coaches in the nation. “It’s very humbling,...

Instagram Inklinations: Friday the 13th. Inklings surveyed some of Staples to find out just how superstitious the student body is on Friday the 13th.

High school students stood alongside Olympians on May 25 under the overcast New York sky. Finish lines were hung, shoelaces were tied, and competitors were overcome with excited anxiety as they got themselves...

Grace Garrity ’13 prepared early for the 2013 Red and Whites dance. With a date, a dress, and a boutonnière at the ready days before the Friday night function, Garrity had but one final preparation...

In the 2012 recreational basketball championship game, Henri Rizack ’14 came up short. Being five points down when the clock rang clear through the Staples gym, Rizack’s team and their campaign for...

Madeline Seidman ’13 first opened the Staples High School student handbook on the long bus ride home from her first day of freshman year in 2009. Outlined inside the blue spiral-bound guide were the...

Not long ago, Staples SuperFans stood on their seats silhouetted under the new lights at the football field, packing the bleachers with blue, white, and unrivaled confidence. Now, five months later,...

One month ago, on Fri., Dec. 14, crisis befell Newtown, Conn. in the form of what’s now only euphemistically known as the tragedy, the disaster—the shooting. That afternoon, Bedford Middle School...

3:48 p.m. While the hype of a white Christmas might have gone for naught this year, Dec. 26 provided all the white missing from the holiday. So much white, in fact, that a Code Red Alert has been issued...

Last Friday morning, rumors buzzed in the Staples cafeteria. Stray words were carelessly and unknowingly thrown—shooting, Newtown, children. Dead. It wasn’t until the afternoon when rumors were...

At Staples, a Police SUV was stationed at the main entrance. At Newtown, it was much more severe.

For 11 months each year, the Saugatuck Bridge sidewalk is bare and gray. The occasional open bottle will fall onto it, leaving a dry shadow of spilled soda printed on the cement, and the periodic foreign...

Today’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has sparked reaction among Staples students—several of whom have made contact with Newtown enrollees or outside sources through social media....

Sure, I suppose I’m a rather emotional guy. I do get worked up on occasion, perhaps raise my voice once in a while, and, yes, I’ll shed some tears every now and again. But while watching the premiere...

The lockers at Staples, while taller than most, cannot pass for redwoods. The students here are not indigenous woodland creatures; the faculty members are not scraggly, zealous hikers in search of a theoretical...

At an earlier game in the season Coach P. discusses game strategy in a huddle with several offensive players.

Driving through Sandy-stricken Westport quickly became a game of dodge-the-destruction. Torn trees and cracked limbs weakened the wires between telephone poles to a near-breaking point—and some even...

The Pros and Cons to Another (Potential) Day Off PRO: I’m not a fan of snow. Plain and simple. However, I am a fan of snow days. The thought of cuddling up in my bed with hot chocolate and a...

For More Coverage on Hurricane Sandy Click HERE Though the trees sway and stray leaves swirl, the weather right now is eerily calm. Before the worst comes and the power inevitably cuts, there can’t...

With Hurricane Sandy fast approaching, Westport is already feeling the effects of the oncoming storm. Residents of the Saugatuck area are already evacuating. Schools have also been closed for both Mon....

In the eyes of those who suffer eating disorders, a hamburger doesn’t look like two all-beef patties on a sesame seed bun. Nor does it look like an inviting entrée. To most patients, it doesn’t even...

What was once a pop-culture icon is now, according to Nintendo, inching closer everyday to becoming obsolete. The Wii U is replacing the old Wii.

When Vig Namisivayam ’16 stepped into Yankee Stadium on Wed. Oct. 10, his expectations were already “higher than usual.” It turned out, rather fittingly, that his expectations were not only met,...

Just over a year ago, Facebook access was still a fantasy in the halls of Staples High School. An attempted log-on to the social site, and computer screens were blasted with error messages and warnings...

10:48 a.m. In downtown Westport, the windows come down and the ladders go up as construction begins on AAA Insurance in the CVS plaza. Caution tape surrounded the area, sectioning off the rest of the parking...

Scott leaves mark on three sports FCIAC Semifinals, varsity soccer. Time was withering away with five minutes left in the first half. The game, tied 0-0, was a crucial one for Staples—go big or go home—and...