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Lexington High School Welcomed Swiss Exchange Students
Lexington High School Welcomed Swiss Exchange Students
Angela Xie and Chelsea Guo October 16, 2025

On Sept. 29, Lexington High School opened its doors to a group of exchange students from Neuchatel, Switzerland. From yellow school buses to pizza at lunch, these Swiss students...

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From Lexington to Around the World: LHS Recent Nobel Laureates
Austin Li and Justin Wang October 16, 2025

With the 2025 Nobel Prize winners being announced last week, many may be thinking more futuristically about the trajectory of science and innovation. And while the Nobel Prizes...

No Cell Phones, No Problem
No Cell Phones, No Problem
Justin Wang and Austin Li September 15, 2025

If you’re a returning student to Lexington High School, you have probably noticed that the dreaded blue phone holders have popped up in every classroom of the school. Known by...

LHS Freshman Sabrina Bhattacharjya’s Website Brings Revolutionary Pride to Lexington’s 250th
Jessica Wu and Melissa Ng June 24, 2025

When most Lexington first-graders were memorizing the names of Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, Sabrina Bhattacharjya, now a freshman at Lexington High School, was already securing...

Sol Ortiz DeRosa Commits to UPenn for Women’s Lacrosse
Sophia Du October 16, 2025

On Sept. 15, junior Sol Ortiz DeRosa announced her commitment to the University of Pennsylvania for Division I Women’s Lacrosse. For DeRosa, playing lacrosse started within...

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...

CollegeBored: Taste-Testing Clubs
CollegeBored: Taste-Testing Clubs
Ella Li September 25, 2025

Dear readers, As the first month of school comes to a close, we now arrive at possibly the most exciting (and economical) event of the year: the Activities Fair! As a child,...

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...

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...

High-Flying Summer: Oscar Benninga Takes the Stage with Circus Smirkus
High-Flying Summer: Oscar Benninga Takes the Stage with Circus Smirkus
Hannah Sul October 3, 2025

For sophomore Oscar Benninga, engaging audiences is second nature. A dedicated dancer and circus performer, Benninga spent his summer on the Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour.  Circus...

Lexington High School Welcomes New Choral Director Andrew Scoglio
Lexington High School Welcomes New Choral Director Andrew Scoglio
Emily Wu October 3, 2025

For the 2025-2026 school year, Lexington High School welcomed Andrew Scoglio as the new choral director of the Performing Arts Department. With over a decade of teaching experience...

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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