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More students are using AI Chatbots for companionship and therapy. Art by Sophia Dengler.

The Algorithm will see you now

Alex Blaise ‘28 found Character.AI in the midst of the pandemic. Feeling isolated from friends, Blaise found comfort in ‘conversing’ with the characters they created on the app. If Blaise wasn’t satisfied with a response, that was no problem....

Director General of the Odanak Band Council Daniel Nolett giving a tour of an Abenaki Reserve in Canada. Nolett said that the state-recognized Vermont Abenaki are lying about being Native American.

“Erasing the True History”

Miranda Brown, Managing Editor October 24, 2025

On a sunny afternoon in September, indigenous scholar and educator Judy Dow led my Burlington City and Lake Semester class on a tour of the Old North End.  Wearing dangly feather earrings and a shirt with birds on it, Dow led us through the “Mocassin...

Register staff posing with awards for 2nd Best Newspaper and Vermont Journalist of the Year at the 2025 NESPA Conference in Boston.

BHS Register wins awards at All-New England Conference

Jeff Finn and Sponsor May 5, 2025

Journalism students were recognized at the New England Scholastic Press Association Conference in Boston on Friday, May 2. 2nd Place: Print Newspaper  Vermont Journalist of the Year: Connor Byam 1st Place Sports Page Design: “The Pride of...

‘We're Always on High Alert’

‘We’re Always on High Alert’

Annie Harte and Melissa Cela-Guaman April 1, 2025

Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14159 on January 20, 2025 titled "Protecting The American People Against Invasion." This order significantly expands the role of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  A student who requested anonymity...

Connor Byam

Connor Byam Named Vermont High School Journalist of the Year

Jeff Finn, Sponsor March 6, 2025

Connor Byam '25 was named Vermont High School Journalist of the Year by the New England Scholastic Press Association (NESPA) on Sunday. Byam, co-editor-in-chief of The Register, now advances to the national Journalist of the Year competition, with...

BHS Nordic skiers Miranda Brown '27 (left) and Camila Vivanco '27 (right) wearing Skida headbands.

From fleece to fortune

Rowan Roberts, Social Media Editor December 17, 2024

Mid-race in one of her first high school Nordic ski races, Corinne Prevot tore her hat off her head and threw it to the side of the trail. Prevot had made the hat herself, but it was made of fleece and far too warm to race in. When she went back to get...

Register wins All New England award for "Best Newspaper"

Register wins All New England award for “Best Newspaper”

Mr. Finn, Proud sponsor June 17, 2024

The New England Scholastic Press Association awarded "Best Newspaper" to the BHS Register for the 2023-2024 school year. The All New England awards are the highest honor NESPA awards to publications each year. Vivian Halladay also won top honors in the...

Bashir Abdallah speaks about his Palestinian father's immigration at the Ohavi Zedek Synagogue as part of a 9th grade field trip.

A moment of peace

Rose Howell, Staff Writer June 5, 2024

With protests against the Israel-Hamas war breaking out on campuses around the country including UVM and tensions rising between the communities affected, the idea of a Palestinian speaker at a High School field trip to a Synagogue is controversial. Hearst...

Where there is smoke

Where there is smoke

Rose Howell, Staff Writer June 3, 2024

Let’s talk about weed. Vermont legalized the recreational sale of marijuana in October of 2022. There are now 75 licensed retail cannabis stores in Vermont. 10 of them are within a 5 minute walk from Burlington High School.  The State of Vermont...

Across the nation chronic absenteeism (missing 10% or more of school days) has doubled since 2018. BHS has seen a 75% increase in that same time frame and now has a 28% chronic absenteeism rate.

Unexcused

Connor Byam, Co-Editor-in-Chief February 1, 2024

28% of BSD students were chronically absent last school year – having missed more than 10% of school days. This follows a nation-wide trend of increased absenteeism in recent years. The chronic absenteeism rate during the 2023 school year was 75% higher...

The Seahorses celebrate their 3rd straight volleyball championship.

A legendary season

Vivian Halladay, Staff Writer December 13, 2023

The Burlington Boys Volleyball team won their third straight state championship in a very close 5 set game against South Burlington. The number one seed BHS Seahorses came into Ross Sports Center at St. Michael’s College and faced off against the...

New web filter "GoGuardian" has blocked the school district's own live streams.

Flagged

Penelope deRosset, Freya Heinzer, and Rowan Roberts December 12, 2023

Instagram - blocked. TikTok - blocked. Pinterest -blocked. Cool Math Games - blocked, The New York Times - blocked. This year the high school started using GoGuardian, a monitoring program that keeps track of everything students do on their Chromebooks...

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