On April 1, 2021 results from air-quality testing revealed a radioactive substance in the new Downtown BHS campus.
The substance is potentially dangerous and has already affected some students.
Jake Smith, a BHS freshman who has been found wandering...
It is that time of the year again: lavish dresses, photoshoots, and booming music enter the dreams of high school students. With the disappointment of last year’s prom looming over their heads, the BHS admin wowed the student body this weekend by...
On April 1, 2021 Superintendent Flanagan announced via email that former Macy's floor manager, Michael Peterson, will assume the position of BHS Principal effective immediately.
"We have had to do a lot of problem solving this year, and I am proud...
Pavel Dvorak, BHS’s longtime physical education teacher whom the district had believed to be retired, is returning to school on Monday to teach for the first time since June of 2019. According to the administration, Dvorak had mistakenly filled in the...
A typical day at dtBHS takes place under a blanket of noise: distant chatting from a nearby hallway, the whir of the school’s escalator, and Mr. Hagan’s lectures from a corner far away. The hum of learning continues throughout the day, always moving,...
At noon on Wednesday, March 10 the BHS girl’s nordic team arrived at Craftsbury, Vermont for the D1 State championship. It was the day they would skate their way into a history-making win, though none of them knew it yet. The sun beat down on them,...
I have never been an avid coffee drinker. Though I have tried many times over the years to enjoy the beverage, I still can not taste it without gagging. In the winter, I instead turn to another hot drink: hot chocolate.
It may seem simple, but do not...
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and at the start of my senior year, I transferred to BHS from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines Iowa, a school halfway across the country.
Extended summer had come to a close and there was still no comprehensive...
Ace the Seahorse, Burlington High School’s mascot, faced a new challenge when schools closed in March: lack of school spirit. Ace knew the detrimental long-term health effects from which students with little school spirit would suffer. A plan in mind,...
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri is famous for her stories about family, marriage, and cultural struggle. Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999, was Lahiri’s debut collection. It won the Pulitzer Prize...
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...
