Sparrow flies high in Poetry Out Loud
Owen Biniecki, Writer
March 15, 2019
Adsel Sparrow (‘20) is an incredibly talented BFA student who has seen recent success in the 2019 Poetry Out Loud competition. Sparrow has won at the classroom, school, and the regional levels and is soon going to compete at the state-level this coming Monday, March 18. There she plans to debut he...
Low participation causes Ski and Snowboard Club’s cancellation
Katharina Spöth, Writer
February 22, 2019
Due to a lack of willing participants, BFA’s Ski and Snowboard Club was forced to cancel session two. But how can a club that once filled two busses end up without enough students to reach the required minimum? Chris Pepin started working as a school counselor at BFA in 2013. Around the same time, he...
Connecting the dots: new security plan for BFA
Haley Seymour, Co-Editor
February 22, 2019
The trek between the North and South buildings has been talked about among BFA students, faculty, and staff for years, and finally, a new connector is in the works. But the connector is not the only planned new improvement to BFA. According to Laz Scangas of Arnold and Scangas Architects, many a...
Celebrating Student Press Freedom Day!
February 12, 2019
BFA Journalism students celebrate Student Press Freedom Day on January 31st, 2019!
Plunging into action
Haley Seymour, Co-Editor
February 11, 2019
On Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, many students and community members around Vermont, including 11 members on the BFA team, did the Penguin Plunge in order to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont. According to the Penguin Plunge website, the purpose of the fundraiser is to raise as much money as possible for Special Olympics. "Funds ra...
New district string teacher at MRUSD
Karen McDaniel, Writer
January 14, 2019
The Maple Run Unified School District has been lucky enough to have a strong music program, with chorus and band and other music classes offered throughout the various schools. Until recently however, there was no strings program available at most of the elementary or middle schools within the distr...
Education or aggravation?
Elizabeth Pietras, Writer
January 14, 2019
As the holiday season comes to an end, exams are just around the corner, leading many BFA students, with the exception of the class of 2019, to wonder how semester exams will affect their proficiency-based scores. In 2016, as enforced by state law, BFA switched from a traditional grading system, consisti...
Poetry Out Loud: 2019 edition
Owen Biniecki, Writer
January 14, 2019
Poetry Out Loud is an annual contest in which students recite poems from a select pool of literature, which changes every year. The competition starts at the classroom level, then to the schoolwide and regional/statewide levels before advancing to the national finals. Each competitor is graded by ju...
Baby, it’s cold outside
Karen McDaniel, Writer
January 3, 2019
It’s the season of giving, which lines up with the frigid winters of Vermont. As always, there are many people in need of warm outer clothing this time of year, and most people are guilty of keeping some that are no longer used. In order to remedy this issue, two coat drives were held at BFA this year...
A new priority: the writing prompt
Haley Seymour, Co-Editor
December 17, 2018
The Maple Run Unified School District has implemented a new writing prompt, which was administered to freshmen at BFA on Dec. 5. The stated purpose is that this new effort will measure growth throughout elementary, middle, and high school. This writing prompt will take place three times a year during ad...
Can news give you the blues?
Owen Biniecki, Writer
December 14, 2018
What we read affects how we think, from how we interpret it to how we relive what’s on the page in the theatres of our minds. The news that we consume as readers every day may be the most impactful. This takeaway we get from our daily sources of information, especially when sources are beginning to w...