Jasper Roberts is a chocolatier at the Whizbangs candy store on Church Street. She, along with the other chocolatier Ana Ferdock, works behind a plastic partition at the back of the store.
Ferdock works with a big sheet of fudge, slicing and sectioning...
Pete Hegseth and his team said the press corps had an October 15th deadline to agree to the policy, and on this day, nearly every credible news organization turned in their press passes and walked out.
The policy requires journalists to agree to only...
The lunch rush at BHS begins as students wait in line, many of whom rely on the freely provided meals that have become a daily guarantee ever since Vermont made school meals free for every student in 2022. In fact, 62% of BHS students surveyed eat school...
On stage Mac Murad ‘26 performed as Javert in BHS' “Les Misérables." Off stage, he says, he sometimes performs another role. When I talked with Murad, he was shotgunning matcha – the trendy Japanese tea that has become synonymous with performative...
Elliot Cardinal ‘26 was digging through old posters promoting the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club when they found something upsetting. The new student leader of the GSA said they found “multiple homophobic slurs” written across one of the posters.
“And...
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....
Donald Trump has issued six executive orders affecting the LGBTQ+ community in 2025.
“[The executive orders] affect me pretty directly,” Avery Eringis ‘26 said. “Because I am trans, and a lot of my friends are also part of the queer community.”
Eringis...
On March 11, chants of “homophobia has got to go” and expletives aimed at Texas lawmakers pierced the usual afternoon quiet of Church Street Marketplace. The voices behind the shouts? Burlington High School and Edmunds Middle School students protesting...
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REBECCA CUNNINGHAM, BHS REGISTER: Monday, November 1, Vermont State Representative, Peter Welch toured Downtown Burlington High School in an effort to understand the condition of Vermont schools. He recently sponsored legislation that would...
In rainy Portland, Oregon a group of seven or so teenagers ages 15-20 arrive for their shift at the Youth Line call center. The teens dubbed “Peer Helpers” are the answerers of a peer-to-peer youth crisis hotline, one of only 6 in America.
Sitting...
Chances are when you think of high school students running a business, an Instagram dance page is not the first thing that comes to mind. However, for Burlington High School (BHS) junior, Diana Fikiria, senior Bety Mayani, and 2019 BHS graduate Medine...
