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Lexington High School’s Production of Into the Woods
Daphne Warren and Vaishnavi Bodapati June 24, 2025

On May 8, Lexington High School presented its 2025 spring musical, Into the Woods. The musical, which ran from May 8-10, originally debuted in 1986 and was written by James Lapine,...

Never-Fading Poppy Project: Memorial Day Showcase
Ethan Zhou and Ethan Shao June 24, 2025

Every year on Memorial Day, students in Lexington come together for the Never-Fading Poppy Project’s (NFPP) Memorial Day Showcase, a tradition that blends art and remembrance.  “This...

LHS Students Help Out at Annual Discovery Day Event
LHS Students Help Out at Annual Discovery Day Event
Anbini Pannirselvam and Siri Battini June 24, 2025

On May 24, more than 100 local businesses and organizations gathered in the Lexington Center to host the town’s annual Discovery Day Street Fair from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m....

Owen Rosenthal Testifies for Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day in State Legislature
Hannah Sul and Khadijah Mohmand June 24, 2025

Owen Rosenthal, a junior at Lexington High School, is pushing for the creation of Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day in the Massachusetts state legislature. Rosenthal was diagnosed...

Girls’ Outdoor Track Team Places 1st in ML-12 Championships
Lena Lee and Rachel Lei June 24, 2025

The Lexington High School Girls Outdoor Track Team recently placed first out of twelve Massachusetts high school teams in the Middlesex League-12 (ML-12) Championships, an outdoor...

Boys Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team Places Third at the Amherst Invite
Boys Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team Places Third at the Amherst Invite
Hannah Han June 24, 2025

On May 3 and 4, 2025, the Lexington High School Boys Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team participated in the Amherst Invite, a qualifying tournament for frisbee nationals. The team was...

Zoe’s Take
Zoe Zeng June 24, 2025

We’ve all experienced the feeling of not being able to remember exactly where one of our memories came from, sitting blankly and trying to recall how we knew that our friend’s...

Caught Between Two Worlds: Split by NIKI
Veolla Jiang June 24, 2025

Lexington High School  is a highly diverse community—as is the town that it’s a part of. Over the past decade , the town of Lexington has become a majority minority;   the...

April 27, 2025

Photo Essay: LHS’s Deterioration
Daniel Kim December 4, 2024

Daniel Saptari Wins  National Science Olympiad Scholarship
Daniel Saptari Wins National Science Olympiad Scholarship
Sophia Du and Chelsea Guo June 24, 2025

Daniel Saptari, a senior and former captain of the Lexington High School Science Olympiad team, was named one of the five national winners of the Founder Scholarship. This award...

VEX Worlds: Robotics, Camaraderie, and Cooperation
Mira Xu and Rohan Boonapalli June 24, 2025

After a year of fine-tuning robots, debugging code, and working through long practices, the VEX Robotics World Championships stand as the final challenge for robotics teams around...

Seniors’ Art Showcased at Annual Senior Art Show
Anya Sawant and Mary Beth Lee June 24, 2025

Lexington High School’s annual senior art show took place on May 12 in the LHS Library. This year’s show was the largest yet, displaying art created by 53 seniors, some of...

Artist of the Issue: Claire Fillon
Avia Liao and Mo Yang June 24, 2025

Claire Fillon, a sophomore at Lexington High School, is a decorated photographer. She specializes in nature photography, using her free time as a student to produce a variety of...

The Math Final: Essential or Outdated?
Shaurya Kasi and Callista Guo June 24, 2025

Summer is coming. The seniors have graduated, teachers are desperately cramming grades into Aspen to make Quarter 4 look less empty, and the air conditioning in the Mods is broken...

The Final Stretch: Teaching in the Shadow of Burnout
Maanav Kakkad and Shreyas Pokharna June 24, 2025

It’s early June. The sun is finally shining through the clouds, the temperature is rising and summer feels near, but many students at Lexington High School still find themselves...

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