Julie Kaplan ’17 was locked in a room in middle of New York City earlier this year. There was a timer in the corner. Obscure puzzles were scattered around the room-- a set of books with codes on their...

Tucked away in downtown Fairfield, at the end of a winding brick alley, is Flipside Burgers and Bar. Upon entering, the restaurant immediately gives off a casually cool vibe. The menu is printed...

On a typical afternoon after school, Caroline McKechnie ’15 and Hadley Ward ’15 would be lounging on the grass, recapping in depth every conversation, every piece of gossip and every interaction that...

My eyes had to readjust as I entered the old factory; sunlight was pouring in from towering windows, causing the steel pillars and copper light fixtures to shimmer. I slid into a wooden booth and gazed...

It was 9:00 am on a Monday when Principal John Dodig had a meeting that left him “at a loss for words.” The meeting was with the Staples Parent Teacher Association, informing him that the Connecticut...

The gym was flooded with shouts and cheers as rubber balls soared across the gym, students sidestepped and sprinted to avoid getting hit; tensions were high and the competition was intense. But this wasn’t...

Three girls were huddled in a dark room. “Everything was in shadows,” Sam Galvao ’16 said. The only  illumination in the bedroom came from a sliver of light that crawled in from under the...

Every student, every day, walks past the same pink flier hanging dutifully outside guidance. As conversation floods the hallway with students chatting about tests and grades, many may not notice this sign,...

Staples students filled the seats of the Westport Arts Center on Friday, Oct. 17 to hear Peter Boyd, COO of the organization the Carbon War Room, speak about the contributors and solutions to climate change. The...

On September 1st, Westport will lose Max’s Art Store, an art supplies store that has resided downtown for 59 years as haven for local artists. Originally opened by Max Kaplan, it has been run for...

Svenson and Raigosa jam out at Toquet Hall on Saturday.

Last Thursday, on May 1st, Rob Rogers, a social studies teacher, was one of two teachers awarded the Pellerin Classroom Teacher Award. According to the website, the award is given to “a classroom teacher...

George Menz ’16 is hard at work on his National History Day Project.

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’...

The vibrant flames of candles flicker in a crisp breeze that rushes off the dark ocean. The waves embrace the shore and slink away, almost, but not quite, touching a marking in the sand. Sprawled across...

Practice begins outside the auditorium. The environment is calm and casual as kids let their heavy backpacks collapse onto the ground and pull out their crinkled coffee-stained scripts. The buzz of conversation...

As Kaela Fodor ’16 approached the boy, she felt the jittery anticipation that goes hand in hand with a teenage crush. This was the boy who she had been texting for over a week. She had been scolded...

Have you ever wished life had an undo button? A chance to take back the last ten minutes; not blank out on the history test last period, or maybe take back that sketchy Mexican food you had for lunch? In...

If you walk into Staples any day, you see students sprawled around the library, textbooks and notes scattered. The tables at the end of each hallway are a chaos of studying as students fevorishly flush,...

It’s the time of year students dread: fitness testing. Twice a year, students are led out to the field to perform a variety of tests, including curl-ups, push-ups, stretching the and pacer. But the...

Prints lined the walls- paintings portraying oceans whipping sailor’s boats, foxes slipping through the murky woods, and horses stampeding across a dark coastline. The crowd of 100 people flooded into...

Over the weekend a pipe leaked in the music hallway, right outside the media lab Custodians noticed the leak around 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Custodian Gary Quinlan said he needs to shut down the water...