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ColumnBy Lance Robinson

The Music of the 1980sGreatest Decade For Music

The 1980s may be over, but it was the greatest decade for music. It was also the greatest decade for hip hop and punk rock.

Hip hop began in the 80s in New York City and the East Coast and was made popular by legendary hip hop artists and bands like LL Cool J, Run DMC, and MC Lyte. West Coast Hip Hop began with Captain Rapp performing “Bad Times” in 1983. In the mid-80s, N.W.A.--another legendary hip hop band--was formed by six young men from Compton, California. However, when their first album Straight Outta Compton was released in 1988, Arabian Prince left the band. At that time, members of the band per-formed their own songs including Eazy-e’s “Boyz in da hood.” N.W.A’s record received a warning letter from the FBI for creating the song, “F*** tha Police”, which Ice Cube, Eazy-e, and MC Ren performed that time. N.W.A’s “Gangsta Gangsta” is used in the video game, “Grand Theft Auto 5” and “Express Yourself” was used in “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4” and “Skate”. The 80s became known for punk rock, also. Punk bands like Black Flag, D.R.I., The Descendants, T.S.O.L., and Naked Raygun made hardcore punk one of the greatest punk rock styles ever made in the decade. This music had staying power since hardcore punk and it’s still around today. Hardcore punk songs like “Superficial Love” by T.S.O.L and “My War” by Black Flag made the 80’s great for punk rock music.Power-Pop and pop became famous with the songs like Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone,” and Madonnas “Like a Virgin.” Power-Pop resembles classic rock, but with keyboards and its own distinctive style. Michael Jackson was a great music art-ist throughout the 80s especially the music video for Thriller and Man in the Mirror. Man in the Mirror won for Grammy award for record of the year back in 1987. The 80s also became famous for classic rock and metal music due to bands like Motley Crue, Twisted Sisters, and Metallica. Metallica became an iconic group because of songs like “Whiplash” and “One.” Motley Crue was formed in the early 80s and also became identified by songs like “Kickstart my Heart.” Not to be outdone, country music was popu-lar in the 80s with songs like “The General Lee” by Johnny Cash and “Forever and Ever, Amen” by Randy Travis. Electro music was one of the greatest genres of the 80s due to its style. The song “Call it Brisco,” by Elite Force, became famous and was used in Fifa 2000 and Gran Tourismo 3: A spec. The 80s maybe gone forever but you can still listen to it today.

Hip hop. Michael Jackson. Hardcore punk. The 1980s was a splendid lyrical depiction of too much music and too little time.

This music had staying power since hardcore punk is still

around today.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a 2017 action spy comedy film produced and directed by Matthew Vaughn and written by Vaughn and

Jane Goldman. It is a sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), which is based on the comic book series Kingsman, created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar. The film features Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Edward Holcroft, Sophie Cookson, and Hanna Alström reprising their roles from the first film, with Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Pedro Pascal, Elton John, Channing Tatum, and Jeff Bridges joining the cast. The plot follows the members of Kingsman needing to team up with their American counterpart, Statesman, after the world is held hostage by a new threat. The Golden Circle premiered in London on September 18th, and was theatrically released in the

United Kingdom on September 20th in 3D and 2D. It was released in the United States on September 22nd in IMAX. It has grossed $253 million worldwide but received mixed reviews from critics mainly due to new characters and over-stylized action. Its 141-minute runtime was also criticized by movie-goers.

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By Theo Avent

Kingsman is an action-packed thriller

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Column by Theo Avent

Until You're Blue In the FaceMike Pence vs. the First Amendment

As all kinds of Americans around the country are trying to figure out how to pay their bills and get by each month, people like Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, and U.S. President Donald Trump represent leadership

with no sense of this American reality. At citizens’ expense, they fly all over the country to speak at feel-good ral-lies, while taxpayers work hard just to get by each day. Pence and his wife showed up at the NFL game between the Indiana Colts and the San Francisco 49ers at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 8, 2017. The National Anthem began. People rose out of respect. But not some of the 49ers. As the National Anthem concluded, VP Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Peck--in response to the 49ers gesture of protest--left the stadium. Their quick exit has left millions of Americans questioning why the Vice President performed such a ridiculous stunt. The Vice President’s staff tried to explain why he did the very planned walk-out. The Vice President usually travels with a huge staff and they all receive room and board, plus associated expenses like rental cars when they accompany the President. And that’s without counting the increased expenses to boost security at the stadium because of the Vice President’s presence nor the additional expenses to have Pence and his team travel back and forth to the stadium. Beyond the actual monetary expenses, though, the clearly planned Pence walkout also provides a disturbing insight into what top White House officials see as priorities. Although the administration is trying to pretend that the whole thing wasn’t actually a planned stunt, the evidence suggests otherwise. First of all, everyone knew that at least some 49ers players would kneel just as they have since 49er Quarterback Colin Kaepernick first kneeled out of protest in the 2016 preseason.

Plus, members of Pence’s press pool said they were told not to bother entering the stadium because they likely wouldn’t be there for long. And then minutes after he walked out, Pence fired off a series of well-composed tweets that included graphics that had clearly been prepared in advance. In this White House administration, related to Trump and Pence, what they do and where they go reflect the things that are important to them. What their actions show is their belief that you can always scrounge up more money for your political demonstrations, though you can’t create more time. For example, Trump’s visit to Puerto Rico last week lasted only a few more hours than Pence’s trip to Indianapolis. Of the 274-odd cumulative days that Trump and Pence have been leading the nation, one was spent traveling to Puerto Rico and one was spent going to Indianapolis. Time is spent in other ways, too. As we’ve noted before, the President has spent a lot more of his time tweeting about the NFL than he has the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Pence’s flight to Indianapolis was planned for weeks as indicated by his social media response ready to go with a graphic immediately after he left the stadium. It’s an impressive level of preparation for an administration, as it turns out, focused on goading the President’s base into anger at black athletes. As citizens interested in human rights, we must be bothered when the top two elected leaders of our democracy decide that political speech—in this case, a silent and non-violent form of political speech—is unacceptable to the point of where the U.S. Vice President conducts a planned walk-out during a football game. This is appalling behavior. That’s the kind of oppressive claptrap our ancestors were fleeing from when they crossed the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of years ago. The greater conversation that we should be having in this country is whether or not our President or Vice President actually care about the First Amendment and its fundamentals. Our two highest elected officials do not seem to care about regular everyday people. But they are equally oblivious to--if not opposed to--the basic fundamental rights of the United States Constitution.

49ers Colin Kapernick first knelt in the 2016 preseason.

Mike Pence's expensive walk-out was a cynical plan.

Their quick exit has left millions of Americans questioning why the Vice President performed such a ridiculous stunt.

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SportsGirls Fall 3-1 in Pink Game

Score Big for Breast Cancer AwarenessBy Meghan Power

The Springfield High School girls soccer team’s 8th Annual “Kicking For A Cure” game for Breast Cancer Awareness occurred on Saturday,

October 7th, against Fair Haven on Brown Field at Riverside Middle School. Although the game was a 3-1 loss for the Cosmos, the squad was never short of spirit and worked hard to raise money for a great cause. “It was awesome,” said SHS Athletic Direc-tor Cagny Brigham. “They raised money for a good cause. I think the game went well.” On October 7th, the girls swapped their regular uniform for a pink jersey and bright pink socks. The pink jerseys had each athlete’s name on the back for a more professional look. “[I like that] we get to keep them [the jer-seys],” said junior Hannah Crosby. “It felt nice to have a jersey meant for a certain cause that had my name and number.” The game started off with a score from Fair Haven. Cosmos player Jenna Veysey scored on a penalty kick to tie the game. However, Fair Haven scored twice more in the contest and Fair Haven got away with a 3-1 victory over the Cosmos. “It felt really good personally [to get the goal],” said sophomore Veysey. “But it felt better knowing that we all worked hard as a team to get to that point.” According to breastcancer.org, 1 in 8 US women--or 12% of all women--will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Not only women are at risk, but 1 in 1,000 men are projected to be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017. Although the rate for breast cancer is fairly high, deaths due to breast cancer have been decreasing. But there are still 40,610 women expected to die from breast cancer in 2017. Furthermore, according to online statistics, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for women aside from skin cancer. For these reasons, the girls soccer team felt their Breast Cancer Awareness game against Fair Haven was important to help raise money and educate the public about this disease. The timing of the soccer season and the game worked out well since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. “1985 was the first year that October was Breast Cancer Awareness month,” said SHS Nurse Jenny Anderson. “It’s really just to bring awareness to women so they can have early prevention and detection, such as mammograms.” Although the pink game was a very impor-tant event for the Cosmos, it wasn’t the last contest in 2017 for the Cosmos girls soccer team. The girls went 2-11-1 this autumn, and eventually lost 6-0 to Division

The pink game may have been a loss for the Cosmos but the contest raised $1000 for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock .See Pink page 15

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The Springfield High School cross country team has competed in three meets this autumn. Coach Stephen Lawrence (social studies) enjoys the

team's attitude. “We can be goofballs,” Lawrence said. “We want to have fun. Yet we try our hardest.” Twelve runners (seven girls and five boys) make up the team. This group practices Monday through Friday as they target different aspects of racing, endur-ance, speed, running hills and power. Though he has been on the teaching staff at SHS for a few years, Lawrence began his first year as a full-time social studies teacher at the high school this fall. This combination of teaching and coaching has put a lot of pressure on him. “This is the most stress I’ve experienced in my life,” he said, “because I’m at school from 5:00 am-8:00 pm. I am at school until 3, then practice, and then I come back.” Lawrence ran cross country in high school in New York state. Now he coaches the sport, which he loves because running cross country allows Lawrence to be himself and allows others to be weird in their own characteristic style. Senior runner Chris Starr has been a member of the cross country team since he was a freshman and now runs with five ninth graders (four boys and one girl). He is delighted to have the freshmen along this season. “It’s good to have some young blood on the team,” Starr said. Starr also admires Lawrence’s coaching technique and point of view. “I like how he [Lawrence] enjoys having fun,” added Starr. “But he also has an iron fist and he trusts everyone on the team.” Eva Harris, who has also participated in the sport throughout her high school career, is also positive about the cross-country team. “So far the team seems promising,” she said. “There are a lot of young runners that show potential.”

Cosmos Cross Country

By Alex Young

Having Fun, Trying Hard

Brings Optimism, Openness

First-year Springfield High School Athletic Direc-tor Cagney Brigham came to the high school after spending two years as athletic director at Bellows

Falls Middle School. Brigham fills the position left open by former Cosmos AD Tim MacDonnell, who took a position to teach math at Hartford High School. “I want to have all SHS athletic programs heading in the right direction,” Brigham said about his goals as athletic director. “‘Right direction’ means on pace for success. Success can mean a lot of things. It doesn’t have to just be wins and losses. “I want every person involved,” Brigham continued, “but I also want to make sure everyone gets something from the season.” Besides setting his sights on success for all Cosmos teams, Brigham is inspired by his vision to remodel and improve all athletic facilities in Springfield. He believes such improvement will engage and encour-age students to participate in athletics. With these ideas in mind, Brigham was satis-fied with the sports season that unfolded for Springfield High School in the autumn. “I am really happy about how it [the fall season] went. Coaches were positive. Athletes were positive. It’s good for the coaches to be positive. It’s good for kids these days.” Even though he’s not a Springfield native, Brigham is delighted with his new position at SHS. “I love it,” he said. “I really truly love it.” Brigham’s exuberant attitude, highlighted by his easy manner and pleasant availability with students,

has brought a new style to his position as athletic direc-tor. He engages student-athletes--allowing them to voice concerns, talk about teams--and attempts to build lasting relationships in this manner. “I want athletes to know that I have their backs,” Brigham said. Additionally, Brigham tries to attend home games because he wants students to know that he is rooting for them. As he anticipates the role he will play as athletic director, Cagney Brigham identifies the biggest challenge as “learning how everything runs.” He must become acquainted with the townspeople, parents, and

See Brigham page 15

Cagney Brigham New AD

By Theo Avent

Brigham wants sports engagement.

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Cosmos track coaches Stephen Lawrence and Jim Fog present ribbon and medal to sophomore athlete Corey Peterson this fall for his outstanding performance at

the CVL Championship Meet in Lebanon, New Hampshire, last May. Peterson cleared 5' to place 3rd among 40 athletes in the high jump. He threw 32'4," a

personal best, to finish 6th among 50 competitors in the shot-put event.

With the fall sports season concluded, every-one agrees that the 0-7-3 Springfield High School Field Hockey Team had big shoes

to fill this autumn. The team said goodbye to 11 of their seniors last year, and welcomed 14 new faces this August, including 13 freshmen. Due to the low number of players out for the team, Springfield High School could only field a varsity team, while most schools on their schedule were able to put together both a junior varsity and varsity team. This put a tremendous amount of pressure on the freshmen players, who would normally get ac-climated to playing high school field hockey by starting out on the junior varsity team, then move up to varsity level as their skills grew. However, field hockey veterans such as seniors Madee Stagner and Sophia Gulick, junior Paige Congdon, and sophomore Lucy Coutermarsh felt that these first-year field hockey players successfully com-peted well at a varsity level with support for them during each step of the way during the season. Sophomore Chloe Husser, new to the team, learned field hockey during the summer. She was delighted to be on varsity this fall. “[I was] ecstatic to be a starter,” Husser said at the beginning of the field hockey season, “and I look forward to making a close connection with the team throughout the season.” Husser added that a strength of her team was how well they drive the ball up the field and out of their defensive end. Jordan Noyes, a 9th grade newcomer, before the season, “looking forward to building relation-ships with her teammates.” Noyes also noted the differences between playing sports in middle school and high school as the season got underway in September. She said, “Com-ing from a middle school team to a varsity high school team means that we have more responsibilities and are expected to work harder.” She was especially pleased with the team’s good communication skills, which helped when they were playing on the field. Junior Paige Congdon, who was a tri-captain this season, played on the state championship team last year. She was pleased with the unity and teamwork of the squad as they came together. Additionally, Congdon felt that defense was the team’s strongest point since key defensive positions were filled by seniors Stagner and Gulick, and veteran sophomore Coutermarsh. With an optimistic and hopeful attitude, the Cosmos field hockey team took on the top-seeded Bel-lows Falls Terriers in a playoff game during the week of October 23rd. Before the autumn sports season, Congdon's remarks served as a note on the 2017 team. “This season will look very different because we have so many new players who are filling the roles of the seniors from last year,” she concluded. “We have only four returning players with different skills, so we have to find out how they blend together with the 14 new girls.”

SHS Field HockeyField Hockey Team Blended 14 New Players

By Sofia Gulick

The SHS Field Hockey team welcomed 14 new girls to the team this fall. The girls finished at 0-7-3 as they blended the new players with the four veterans.

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Football and MeGiving It Everything I’ve Got

By Kyle Monier

Starting the season 0-4 was definitely heartbreaking for the Springfield High School football team and the community.

However, for 15 Cosmos seniors who played the sport, that was expected to change. The team started off the 2017 season by losing to the Division 3 State Champion Windsor Yellow Jackets 53-22. Despite los-ing to Windsor, the Cosmos did something that no other team did last season. No team scored more than 21 points against Windsor last year, yet the Cosmos racked up 22 in early September. In the second game of the season, Woodstock came into Springfield with a head full of steam, and put up 49 points against the Cosmos’ defense. For the Green and White, wide receiver Mason Onley gained 170 yards and scored`one touchdown against Woodstock, while Cosmos receiver J.J. LeCouffe gained 90 yards with a touchdown. But it wasn’t enough. BFA-Fairfax, the Cosmos’ third opponent this fall, offered different competition on Brown Field. The Cosmos were only down 14-7 at halftime thanks to key defensive stops, and a LeCouffe TD. But turnovers in the second half and missed plays cost the Cosmos a victory and they lost 28-7. At the midpoint of the season, the Cosmos played at home against their traditional rival, last year’s Division 2 State Champs, the Bellows Falls Terriers. With the stands packed on both sides, it was, indeed, an intense game. The Terriers started the game with a long touchdown, and just didn’t stop rolling, defeating the Cosmos 45-6. The Cosmos only score came on a 59-yard Matt LaChapelle receiving touchdown. The Cosmos played Granville, New York, during the last week of September as the Springfield boys sought their first win of the season and their first victory on Brown Field since 2015. Only two home games remained for the Cosmos--against Granville and Missisquoi (which is also the senior game)--then the boys finished off the season playing away at Mill River and MSJ/Poultney.

For me, as the Cosmos quarterback and a senior, I tried to do whatever I could to help the team win. I have been the starting varsity Springfield High School quarterback since I was a sophomore at Green Mountain Union High School. However, throwing the football was the least of my worries when I am out on the field. I had to know everything about my team, and the team across from me. First I had to get the play from coach and take it to the huddle and tell my team. As soon as I broke the huddle, I’d let the team know if the play was going left or right based on where the ball was. I had to process the play in my head and figure out each receiver’s route, whether the running backs would either be pass block-ing, running the ball, or running a route. I had to look at the defense and figure out their coverage.

If it was a run, I had to look at the defensive alignment, and see what defensive shade the down-linemen were in, as well as identifying the middle linebacker, as well as the backside linebacker looking to see if he could blitz my blindside. I had to process all of that in a matter of about 5-10 seconds, which is about how much time I have to start the play after breaking the huddle. Keeping all this in mind, quarterback is much more complex than people may think. But, I absolutely love it. In fact, football had been my passion since I was little. I grew up watching football every Sunday with my dad.

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Senior fullback Matt LaChapelle is a green blur racing for a touchdown.

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Continuation The story of The Golden Circle begins a year after Eggsy Unwin and the secret organization Kingsman saved the world from Richmond Valentine's neurological wave broadcast. Eggsy has since taken his late mentor Harry Hart's title of Galahad and lives with Crown Princess Tilde of Sweden. On his way home he is ambushed by Charlie Hesketh, a former Kings-man trainee who lost his arm and vocal cords during the Valentine episode. Eggsy evades Charlie and his henchmen in a car chase across London, but Charlie's severed cybernetic arm hacks into the Kingsman servers through the car's computer system. While Eggsy is away in Sweden, a volley of missiles destroy the Kingsman headquarters and wipe out all of the agents in Britain. With this opening of treachery and bad luck, much mayhem is the order of the day in The Golden Circle.

Kingsman from page 9

My dad is a pretty calm guy. He doesn’t get excited about anything. But when the Detroit Lions are on TV, he changes into a completely different person. When I saw his passion for football, I wanted to have the same excitement about something just like the emotion he showed for football. For me, it was football all the way. Throughout elementary school I wanted to play football. Even at the start of middle school I still was begging my parents to let me play. Finally after a rough soccer season, I convinced them. I played my first season over at Bellows Falls for the middle school team, playing tight end. The next year brought me to Springfield, and when the JV coach asked who could throw, I took my opportunity and killed it. I’ve been playing quarterback ever since. For my future career in football, I don’t see myself playing in college depending on my choice of school. I plan on attending college, but I just don’t see myself playing the sport again after this season con-cludes. Since I will always have a passion for foot-ball, I plan on being involved with coaching as much as I can, whether that coaching involves pee-wee, middle school, getting together with coach Saypack to help coach future Cosmos high school teams, or anything that comes my way. I have a burning passion for this sport more than anything. Therefore, in these final few game, I am looking to play every down of every game with everything I’ve got.

Football from page 14

from the high school. This committee included Spring-field School District Superintendent Zach McLaughlin, top administrator in the district. Costello states that Coen’s role as assistant principal will be well-defined. “He will support his long-term sub,” she said. “He will support students and teachers around behavior management. He will also serve on the observation team, but only as a peer.” Coen, however, will not evaluate teachers, one important duty that had been assigned to Costello in her role as assistant principal. Currently, Coen teaches two 10th grade English classes, an Introduction to Journalism elective course, and a Film Studies class. Becky Nadeau is par-ticularly pleased to teach the Film Studies class. “I’m excited for Film Studies,” she said. “I love how Mr. Coen connects films to humanity. It is so interesting.” Becky Nadeau teaches six ARC classes with former SHS English teacher Susan Hunt. Ed Wilkins, who retired from the high school’s English department in June 2015, will fill Nadeau’s position in ARC until the February vacation, when Coen returns to English and Nadeau returns to ARC. Despite the interesting and complex move-ment of educators at Springfield High School, 2nd year principal Bindy Hathorn is convinced that the complex-ity is worth it since Coen is the right man to replace Costello while she is out on maternity leave. “Mr. Coen is Mr. Coen,” Hathorn concluded. “I know he’ll do a great job. He always does.”

Costello from page 1

the dummy while half the town stood around in the snowdrifts and watched. The trial run went all right.” (148)

Eventually convicted Dakota murderer Jim Trusdale goes off into the wild blue yonder. If you want to know where he is headed, read “Afterlife” in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (note: it isn’t good). Other oddities complete the plot of “Death,” though modesty and discretion prevent full disclosure of these final revelations. Through it all, readers should be fascinated by Stephen King’s use of diction, which is pleasantly lacking in frills and gewgaws, as flat as the Great Plains, as thin as a scarecrow hanging in Kansas. And, for all that, wonderful and memorable. Contemporary American Wild West writers Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry, who saddled up their pioneer prose and rode through American classics like All the Pretty Horses and Lonesome Dove, would discharge the 6-guns of their imagination and drink double-shots of celebration to honor Mr. King’s style in “Death.” You’ll do the same if you read this tumbleweed tale as you wander through the gothic marketplace of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

Bazaar from page 15

2 3rd seed U-32. Though the score didn’t reflect it, the Cosmos grew a lot this season and this points to better times ahead since no seniors played on the team. Coach Kevin Hoisington was very pleased with the pink game. “For the second year in a row we raised $1000 dollars to go towards the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in Dartmouth," Hoisington concluded. That’s the biggest takeaway from this game."

Pink from page 11

students in order to do his job effectively, though he is new to the community. However, Brigham’s optimism is clear to see as he works his way through his first months as SHS Athletic Director. “I want to change the culture of athletics at Springfield High School,” he concluded. “Change can be beneficial, especially in the manner of sportsmanship and athletics.”

Brigham from page 12

Senior Year.

By Gabe Considine

The Springfield High School Class of 2018 has now worked its way through one quarter of its final year of school. 110 students began freshman

year in the fall of 2014 with this group. 91 students will graduate this June. This should be a good year for the class of 2018. It should be a great year for me. Many s e n i o r s have made a great and positive start for the 2017-2018 school year. This is a very important year for these up-perclassmen as they try to make this their best year of school with Homecoming, dances, college applications (hoping to get into their top college and there are a lot of different colleges that are interesting to seniors depend-ing on the majors they hope to excel in). Many seniors are also trying to figure out what they want to do after high school besides college. This process includes job hunting and applying themselves to get out there and seek employment. This year is also very hard for some seniors and very easy for other seniors. Some seniors have enrolled in Advanced Placement or Dual Enrollment classes and loaded up their school schedule to raise their Grade Point Average (GPA) before they apply to colleges. Students will continue to push through their final year at Springfield High School, though senioritis is always a danger, even early in the year. I interviewed a few of the seniors to check in with how they are doing so far this year. When asked to tell me about senior year so far, Theo Avent responded with this: “Senior year has started off quite hectic with a side of stress. I am taking Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition. I’ve become stressed due to having to apply to colleges I have officially applied to six Vermont colleges. These six consist of UVM, St. Michaels, Champlain College, Castleton College, NVU, and Green Mountain College.” For myself, my personal goal for senior year includes my favorite sport, baseball. Even in while I was playing football, I thought about having a great senior baseball year. I am very excited for this year’s baseball season. I hope to bat at least .500. The 2018 baseball season should be terrific and a home game in the playoffs would be appreciated. I plan to stay in the weight room until called out for the 2018 season in March.

Wow.

Laura Wentworth works on an art project for the Harvest Festival. The

Festival was celebrated on November 9th, during Parent Conferences.

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SHS Speaks Out By Meghan Power

It's that favorite time of year again for most people: almost-winter and not-quite-fall. The time when the leaves crumble underfoot and dark clouds threaten overhead and the first school sports season completes its cycle of wins and losses. As temperatures plummet, Springfield High School students and staff are clearly ready for something new in terms of weather and the holidays. So life changes--once again--and Green Horn asks students and staff: What was your favorite fall activity?

Teacher Becky Skrypeck

Junior Paige Congdon Sophomore Greg OtisJunior Shane Holl

Senior Owen KellySenior Logan WhitcombI like to go on hikes with my dog with the

fall foliage.Football. Driving through winding back roads

looking at the beautiful fall foliage.

Football.Carving Pumpkins.

Column By Evan Holmes

Alta Motors. New Face of MX?Alta Motors invented the first electric motocross

(Redshift MX) and supermoto (Red Shift SM) bikes.

These bikes are an outgrowth of the passion that Alta Motors has for this line of business, which they have written in their description of this project which can be read as a mission statement for Alta Motors: “We love motorcycles. The best ones make you tingle when you look at them, giggle when you ride them, and even scare you just a little bit. We love going fast. And we love finding new ways and new places to go fast. Our goal is to create motorcycles that are easier to ride fast than anything else out there. We build electric bikes because we love instant throttle response and flat, endless torque. Because we want the next bike we purchase to be faster than our last one.” “The first sketches of the Redshift began in San Francisco in 2007. Two riding buddies, Derek Dor-resteyn and Jeff Sand, with a few decades of fabrication, engineering and design expertise between the both of

them, fell in love with the idea of the smooth, perfectly responsive torque curve. Naturally, they started kicking around the possibilities for building their own electric motorcycle— a motorcycle that could be faster and more rideable than their gas bikes.” In 2016, Josh Hill raced at the Red Bull Straight Rhythm with a Redshift MX and did surpris-ingly well. He made it to the semi-finals before he lost to Mitchell Oldenburg on his KTM 250 SX-F. Josh’s fine performance with an electric dirt bike suggests good things ahead for electric dirt bikes. I believe that we may see the sport of motocross and supercross be invaded by electric dirt bikes. But I can’t believe they will take over the whole sport. These new electric bikes may be fun to ride. However, I have never ridden one and I’d rather hear and ride my gas bike, then hear the battery wind up and down on a Redshift MX or a Redshift SM.

Wearing cozy sweaters.