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The Cypress

Peeps: 2025 New Year's resolutions
Peeps: 2025 New Year’s resolutions
Ellie Hong, News Editor • January 17, 2025

After receiving equity and diversity training, Cawthorne began the Racial Awareness class for students at the high school. In its first year, it was held as an elective twice a week before school.
Racial Awareness Class discontinued, but its impact lives on
Juliana Segal, Staff Writer • January 16, 2025

It was 7:30 a.m. and the sun was just beginning to rise, spilling light across the quiet hallways of the high school. In one classroom, students sat together, some still shaking...

Deceased juvenile Red Tailed Hawk, one of the species of raptors affected by SGARS, who has died of suspected SGAR poisoning in a Brookline backyard.
Saving raptors, one change at a time
Valentina Coj, Staff Writer • January 15, 2025

Silent predators of the sky, raptors are nature’s cleanup crew, until toxic rodenticides turn their meals into a deadly trap. Friends of Brookline Raptors is the local...

The vast majority of the plastic we use does not end up being recycled. Why do we uphold it as a paragon of environmentalism?
We Don’t Talk About That: we’ve been lied to about recycling
Marco Neer, Opinions Editor • January 8, 2025
Each Monday evening, I roll two large blue barrels full of cardboard boxes, newspapers, blueberry containers, yogurt cups and milk cartons out to the curb.

My family and
In this photo, players on Eva Berkson’s club team from 2019 gather after a hard fought game. Berkson now plays on girls varsity soccer and plays both with and against some of these girls.
Is club soccer worth it?
Eva Berkson, Opinions Editor • December 5, 2024
Dalí's painting  “Velázquez painting the Infanta with the lights and shadows of his proper glory" emulates another painting of the 17th century.
MFA’s Dalí Exhibit goes beyond melting clocks
Alexa Lieberman, Staff Writer • January 14, 2025

I could only describe my assignment as daunting: Visit a famous art museum and review a world-renowned artist’s work? I was certain that it would push the limits of my qualifications...

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December 11th: what’s your favorite holiday song? 🎶🌲⭐️
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Another day, another advent calendar… December 10th: do you believe in Santa? 🧑‍🎄🌲🎁
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December 9th advent calendar: what’s your favorite holiday movie!? 🌲🎁⭐️
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Dec. 5th advent calendar!! What’s your favorite snowy day activity? ❄️☃️🌲
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Dec. 4th advent calendar! Who was your top artist this year? 🎁🌟🌲
Dec. 4th advent calendar! Who was your top artist this year? 🎁🌟🌲
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Dec. 3rd advent calendar: what was your best Black Friday/Cyber Monday purchase? 🎁🌟🌲
Dec. 3rd advent calendar: what was your best Black Friday/Cyber Monday purchase? 🎁🌟🌲
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The start of The Cypress advent calendar 🎁🌟🌲… more coming throughout the rest of December!
The start of The Cypress advent calendar 🎁🌟🌲… more coming throughout the rest of December!
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HALLOWEEN IS ANYA MIND

Did you have a good Halloween?
HALLOWEEN IS ANYA MIND Did you have a good Halloween?
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The girls varsity rugby team inbounds the ball from the sideline at Skyline field. Athletes from different teams come together to form a respective environment.
Sports teams provide coed spaces and push gender barriers
Lexi Tringas, Sports Editor • January 16, 2025

As the school day comes to a close and students prepare themselves for an afternoon of practices or games on one of the high school’s various sports teams, one detail often...

The Warriors lost in hard-fought game against the Newton North Tigers on Friday, Jan. 3, in the Schluntz Gymnasium.
Boys varsity basketball loses to the Newton North Tigers 58-46
Aki Moriguchi, Staff Writer • January 15, 2025

The boys varsity basketball team lost 58-46 to the Newton North Tigers in the Schluntz Gymnasium on Friday, Jan. 3. The Warriors initially won the tip-off, but the Tigers...

Freshman Skylar Makalusky holds her ground against four Timberwolf defenders on Tuesday, Jan. 14 in the Schluntz Gymnasium. The girls varsity basketball team lost 48-43.
Girls varsity basketball loses hard-fought game 48-43 against Walpole Timberwolves
Payson Marshall, Editor-in-Chief • January 15, 2025

The girls varsity basketball team lost 48-43 in a hard-fought game against the Walpole Timberwolves on Tuesday, Jan. 14 in the Schluntz Gymnasium. The game started with...

Crossing the Quad: January crossword
Crossing the Quad: January crossword
Geo Elasmar, Editor-in-Chief • January 9, 2025
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