
In eighth grade, I decided that my school didn’t honor 9/11 enough, so I organized a memorial event for its 20th anniversary. A teacher talked about his experience that day. I am not one for giving speeches, but I got up there in front of 180 people and narrated the events as they happened that day...

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Winner of Youth Journalism International’s 2025 Jacinta Marie Bunnell Award for Commentary and the First-Place Citywide Awards for Opinion and Photojournalism at the 2025 Newsies CompetitionDecember 19, 2024
Ocean Hiller
Winner of the First-Place Award for Illustration in the New Newspaper Division at the 2025 Newsies CompetitionDecember 19, 2024
Ariam Tedla
Winner of the Second-Place Award for Feature Writing in the New Newspaper Division at the 2025 Newsies CompetitionMay 28, 2024
Zoe Otto
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Hello, readers! You’re with Ocean and Willow, reporting live from Ms. Hesseltine’s dungeon. Whether it’s your first or fourteenth time picking up a copy of The Echo, we welcome you. As Co-Editors-in-Chief for the 2025–26 school year, we will...

“There’s no way this is real—right?” Not to play spoiler, but this is real. There is a little-known genre of sports that revolves around transit vehicles. Every year, there are several bus roadeos across the US, including a national roadeo...

Puppy love used to be all about shy smiles, handwritten notes, and long phone calls where you’re both hoping a parent isn’t listening on...

Disclaimer: This article contains a series of journal entries by an unidentified author, which were discovered stashed in the corner of the fruit...


Fall Sports: Girls’ Soccer The 2024 season was one of the best for girls’ soccer in all of HSMSE’s history. This year, the team only had one loss in the regular season, leaving them with an 8–1 win–loss record and...

When you picture Halloween, I bet you think about kids in costumes going door to door for candy. However, people didn’t always give out candy....
































