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By Gina Marino Each sports season, the time comes to honor the seniors in their final year, with what appears to be bigger and bolder “Senior Days.” Seniors at BHS have noticed that this year in particular marks some of the most elaborate Senior Days since their freshman year. The celebrations seem to be getting bigger and bigger each season. Pat Laske, a senior, said
By Maria Quagliano New math teacher Mr. Elsden has joined the Branford High School community and is liking it more and more everyday he said. Elsden, who teaches geometry honors and algebra 2 block, said he was inspired to become a math teacher by a “great group of math teachers” he had in college. He also wanted a career where he could help people. Surprisingly
By Angela Pascale As senior year begins, a student’s life becomes extremely stressful from college applications, Capstone essays, and much more. Senior April Simmons, 17, has a lot less stress on her plate these days. April plays lacrosse for BHS but also for other travel teams, where she was noticed earlier this year by Wagner College. They contacted her July 1st, the first day college
By: Jackson Mariotti This year, boys soccer ended their regular season with an impressive 11-6-1 record. After clinching the Oronoque Division easily, the team moved on to the post season. Unfortunately, they had an early exit in both SCC’s and the State Class L playoffs. Even though they were disappointed, they are already looking toward next year. Seven juniors started varsity, and with almost the
Friday night’s homecoming dance at Branford High School seemed like a great success. The commons were filled with more than 400 students. The location, originally set in the big gym, had to be relocated due to an overwhelming turnout of students buying tickets. There was lots of dancing, great music, and fun times for everyone. Students from all grades attended the dance which lasted 4
By Justin Veilleux The lifetime and personal fitness classes both have grown recently as they offer an alternative for students to take instead of a regular physical education class. Lifetime Fitness is a class where students do numerous activities to help them with their physical strength and their mental strength. The class started 3 years ago. “The goal is to introduce students to activities like training, yoga,
By Maria Quagliano Within the walls of Branford High School students and faculty have been aware of the name Mr. White from the guidance office, but now they have the chance to get to know a new personality behind the name. A new faculty intern from the University of Bridgeport, also named Mr. White, has been loving working at BHS since day one due to
By Shradha Shrestha This year, Branford High School will hold a homecoming dance – with a catchy twist – to introduce spirit week. For many years, BHS hasn’t had any homecoming event besides powder-puff to increase school spirit. However, this fall seems to be turning out quite different. The dance will take place in the big gym on November 15th from 7:30 pm-10: 30 pm. Unlike
By: Sam Bailey-Loomis, Editor Today, Branford High School held its annual Veteran’s Day celebration, honoring more than 30 local veterans. The event was organized by the school’s Horizons Program, and has been an anticipated event recurring annually for 14 years since 1999. Veterans from World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Korean War were all present. After second period, students from all grades gathered together
Editor’s note: In anticipation of the team’s appearance in the Class L Girls Soccer state tournament, The Buzz asked staring goalie Becca Vitale, ’14, to share how she prepares for each game. She has some pretty particular pre-game rituals. By Becca Vitale “Hi, can I have a medium hot carmel latte skim, please?” It’s 7 a.m. and I am ordering my latte, already getting in
