Junior Nate Eugley returns to public school after struggle with Lymes disease
Joshua Hanson, Staff Member
March 25, 2019
Nate Eugley, a junior at Biddeford High School, returned after being homeschooled for over three years. In sixth grade Nate Eugley was diagnosed with Lymes disease, after he’d suffered a tick bite to his neck. “After I’d found the tick on my neck, I went to go get it tested for Lymes dise...
Dual enrollment available to BHS students in 2019-2020
Nadya Buffum, Staff Member
March 22, 2019
Are you a student that got a 480 or higher on your PSAT’s and/or SAT? Then lucky for you, you are eligible to take the new dual enrollment classes next year. Dual enrollment is a way to get college and high school credit at the same time. Jennifer Rowland, a Biddeford High counselor, has taken on ...
Senior Yuriy Reiter survives car crash
Joshua Hanson, Staff Member
March 12, 2019
On January 24th Senior Yuriy Reiter was in a car crash. At around five in the morning Reiter was driving around to clear his head when he lost control of his vehicle and went off the road. “I went over a bridge and at the end of the bridge, there was a turn. I turned going 50 Miles Per Hour and the c...
Vaping becomes an epidemic within high schools
Matthew Farley, Staff Writer
March 8, 2019
As the rise of electronic cigarettes becomes more common in our society, it’s also become more prevalent in high schools across the United States, including Biddeford High School. According to a survey conducted by Monitoring the Future, an organization that studies trends in American youth, mor...
BHS presses “Go” on new take on advisory
Madison Arnold, Staff Writer
February 28, 2019
Biddeford High School has made a schedule altering shift to “Go-Time” during the middle of the day intervention block. The acronym “GO” stand for “Growth Opportunity,” and is a new take on advisory at Biddeford High School. It provides students with an extra class period per day. This ...
A glimpse into Biddeford’s community through sports
Grace Laverriere, Editor
November 7, 2018
Filed under News, Showcase, Sports
Crowds roaring. Plays shouting. Sweat dripping. The feeling of playing a game on the iconic Waterhouse Field is one like no other. Biddeford’s newly renovated Waterhouse Field houses a whole new atmosphere. The field, a landmark to the community’s hardworking nature, hosts much more than sports g...
An Inside Look at The Compass Project
Grace Laverriere and Taylor Wildes
June 25, 2018
Filed under Features, News, Showcase
While navigating the construction of a boat for the past five months, the Compass Project program is certainly making waves at Biddeford High. The Compass Project, a boat building program available at Biddeford High School, allows students to build a boat throughout a semester. The class is led by th...
Mindsets change in a post-Parkland society
Asha Tompkins and Lauren McCallum
April 3, 2018
Rondeau explains that despite a large amount of training and planning, nobody can plan for the possible “what-ifs.”
Many Students Unaware of the Impact GPA Differential has at Biddeford High School
Grace Laverriere, Staff Writer
April 3, 2018
One test: know all dates, events, and people from 1491 to the present, analyze texts, identify primary and secondary sources, classify changes and continuities throughout time, connect events to outside regions. All of these skills are needed for an AP United States History exam in a three hour time block...
Stop…HAMR time!
Asha Tompkins, Editor
December 7, 2017
Despite their efforts to improve the 40 minute period of “advisory and HAMR time”, the school administration continues to deal with the issues surrounding the block. Since the first day of school when it was announced, many students and teachers have brought to attention the inconveniences of ...
Alone in the Crowd
Asha Tompkins, Editor
October 3, 2017
“If you get physical with somebody, you are gone. If you videotape an altercation, you are gone. If you are a bystander egging it on, you are gone. Hate has no place in this building.”