Seniors react to remote learning curriculum, COVID-19 updates

Eddie Kiev ’20 and Audrey Bernstein ’20

March 29, 2020

Hiatus disrupts college process for upperclassmen

Caroline Donohue and Emily Stone '20

March 23, 2020

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Rec basketball ends in heartbreak for seniors

Ethan Frank '20

March 23, 2020

“Who are you guys playing tonight?” is a common thing to hear among senior boys around the halls of Staples High School. Rec basketball is a staple among Westport youth basketball players and canceling the most important Thursday night of the winter sports calendar for some is a huge disappointme...

Personalized parking spots inspire creativity

Charlotte Smith '21, Staff Writer

March 14, 2020

Every morning, seniors park in their assigned spot outside of Staples, which is their permanent place to park for the entire school year. Although the spot belongs to them until they leave for internships, the only thing that symbolizes that its theirs is the small yellow number that is imprinted on eac...

Students decide if Senior Skip Days are useless or useful

Samantha Felner '22 and Jack Lev '20

February 10, 2020

Rising upperclassmen select elective English courses for next year

Carly Kaplowitz '21 and Emma Dantas '21

January 31, 2020

Superfans preview rec basketball

Jack Lev '20, Teddy Dienst '20, Logan Gornbein '21

January 5, 2020

Early Decision application outcomes create too much stress for seniors

Lily Kane '20, Broadcast Director

January 2, 2020

As a senior in high school, it is virtually impossible for me to escape the ever-increasing stress of the college process until I am in a school I’m happy with. For many seniors in my same position, these two weeks of mid-December are perhaps the most stressful of the entire year. With early decisio...

Senior skip day: is it really a “skip” day?

Izzy Sareen '22, Staff Writer

November 8, 2019

As we all know, Staples High School seniors try to pull off at least one big prank per year. The most common tradition they partake in is senior skip day, in which  the seniors either show up to school and wander the halls or skip altogether.  A skip day is supposed to be a day where the students catch the ...

Fourteen seniors named finalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program

Grady Narang ’20

June 13, 2019

Baseball players slide into senior day

Lili Romann '19

May 31, 2019

As Staples boys' basketball coach Colin Devine said, "The senior's got a great day for baseball." The boys' baseball team had their Senior Day ceremony May 16...

The Last Summer offers insight to challenges before college

Chelsea Fox ’19 and Amanda Kaplowitz ’19

May 17, 2019

May 1 allows seniors to celebrate their college decisions

Nicky Brown ’19

May 16, 2019

For high school seniors around the nation, May 1 was national decision day. This means that by May 1, seniors had to decide where they would attend college the following year. Traditionally, seniors celebrate their college selection by wearing their college colors or logos on May 1. Prior to school...