life with

chemicals.

“Dirt” is not a

lecture or semi-

nar, “Dirt” is a

play of many

characters all per-

formed by one ac-

tor.

John Morello gets

people’s attention

to serious topics

by using comedy.

He changes char-

acters to tell a

story which is in-

formative and im-

portant to young

adults about how

too many of our

young people are

doing drugs, and

drinking alcohol.

Audiences are sure

to see someone they

know or can re-

late to, and it is this

resemblance that

has been connect-

ing with young

people across the

country.

Although it’s

funny, and amus-

ing it is supposed

to send out a seri-

ous message about

not ruining your

Dirt

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Newspaper

Participants: Ms.Roche

Kevin Alves

Ethan Borjeson-Troupe

Vini Cunha

Ben Fox

Madison Hey

Ava Lawyer

Jake Lutton

Evan Maietta

Jonathan Morgan

Foram Patel

Zoey Retamoza

Connor Rielly

Jacob Robbins

Matthew Robertson

Kayte Rooney

Abby Stratton

Nathaniel Thompson

Grace Turgeon

Issue 2 / December Edition

By Ethan Borjesen-Troupe

This is an entry from last year’s seventh

grade agenda cover competition done by

Sophie Wiersma. Every year a seventh

grader’s picture is chosen to be the follow-

ing year’s agenda cover.

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These are pictures from all

around the school. They are to help

you explore our new school. If you

find these you get to have your name

in the next issue. Each week the pic-

tures will get harder and harder. This

week will be an easy week. Write your

name, grade, and where each picture is

down on a piece of paper and turn it

into the yellow newspaper box outside

the cafeteria. If you guess the places of

the pictures correctly, your name will

be placed in the next issue of the

school newspaper as the winner of the

first week’s picture contest.

School Scavenger Hunt

By Jake Lutton

Our new song is called

“Hanging With Friends”. You will

find it on YouTube on Vini’s

channel called vini45ify. Sub-

scribe to that channel and sub-

scribe to Jon’s channel called

WizPopper.1

Our New Song

By Vini Cunha and Jonathan Morgan

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DO YOUR

HOMEWORK EVERYDAY:

1.) SO YOU DON’T GET YELLED AT

2.)SO YOU CAN HAVE A GOOD

FUTURE

3.)TO GET BETTER AT THAT SUBJECT

4.)YOU LEARN MORE FROM

HOMEWORK

5.)IT’S GOOD FOR BRAIN

6.)MOST IMPORTANTLY YOUR

TEACHERS WILL BE IMPRESSED

~FORAM PATEL~

Page 3

The app of the month

is “Angry Birds Sea-

sons” and their new

Thanksgiving break-

out with everything

you love and don’t

love so much from a

Thanksgiving feast…

with a few extras,

weird structures

(as always) , and

those bad piggies

with your egg. Help

the birds out and

download this ex-

treme app to use

the birds provided

as an arsenal to

November App Review

By Nathaniel Thompson

safely return the egg

(of course, that won’t

happen for a long

while) and bring those

piggies to justice!

~Nathaniel~

First Night

By Grace Turgeon

Uxbridge First Night was a success. People were able to play fun carnival games, buy hot chocolate and other yummy things, and even ride a trolley. The trolley ride took you to River

Bend Farm where you could look at beauti-ful paintings, or take a hayride. The hay-ride took you in a cir-cle, and around the circle were nice Christmas decora-tions. The parade was just amazing- they

threw candy to the kids. They had many different floats, and Santa even talked to the crowd. First Night is definitely a fun place to be around the holidays.

McCloskey Messenger Political Hub

“Fiscal Cliff”

Welcome back to the McCloskey Messenger, political hub. This month, we are going to talk about the “fiscal cliff”. This is a serious matter as it will be the difference between a TERRIBLE economy, and a stable economy. The fiscal cliff is what they are calling the conflict be-tween the republicans and democrats over what will happen when the Bush ad-ministration tax cuts expire. Considering that the democrats won the election, they

have say over what hap-pens, but the republi-cans won the house, and any law or bill has to go through the house in order to be active. Obama is saying that he wants to raise taxes on the rich. (They consider rich as any family who makes $250,000.00 a year or a single person who makes $200,000.000 or more a year). The republicans want to lower the gov-ernment spending budget so they don’t have to raise taxes on “richer” people. They are trying to come to an

agreement where they will raise taxes a little, and lower the govern-ment budget. If they do not come to an agree-ment by next year on the 1st of January, then taxes will automatically raise for everybody. They are desperately trying to avoid that. We will find out what will happen by the end of this month. Thank you for reading and I will see you next time. Bye.

By Jacob Robbins