By: Samantha Adornati
An assembly was held on Thursday, May 20th, in the Spotswood High School cafetorium covering the effects of drinking and driving during Prom weekend. Guest speaker Steven Benvenisti, an attorney, presented the severity of drunk driving, as he now dedicates his life to preventing its fatal price. He told the story of a [...]

By: J M Hummel
Salsa dancing, the polka, and great food were found at the first International Night in recent memory.  It was an event like no other. During various language classes, students were taught how to salsa and polka with the best of them. It didn’t matter that I had two left feet, within a matter of days [...]

By: Dawn Govlick
Sketches, sculptures, short films, paintings, and gingerbread houses all in one place?  The 2010 Art Show displayed all of this and more.   Art and graphics students’ work was featured in the show this past May. On average, each student had at least 2 of their best pieces of art displayed in the library. [...]

By: Jenn Livingstone
New Jersey recently passed a new law which went into effect on Saturday, May 1st.  This law was created to help police officers identify and enforce the driving restrictions for teenagers.
The law is named after Kyleigh D’Alessio who died in a car crash in 2006 because she was not wearing a seatbelt while in the passenger seat of [...]

By: Dawn Govlick
Spotswood High School was quite the place to be on the evening of April 30, 2010. Hundreds of students, parents, family members, and teachers lined up for The Ninth Annual Mr. Spotswood Pageant presented by Miss Meyers, Mrs. Collins, Ms. Goglia and the Class of 2010. Before the show, the cafetorium was filled [...]

By: Nicole Byrne
      
Have you ever caught yourself gazing out of a classroom window, wishing that the sun could be shining on you instead of the florescent light bulbs? Of course you have. Fortunately for you and the rest of the SHS student body, Mrs. Jay and the Spotswood High School Environmental Club is in [...]

On April 20th, twenty-five students from Spotswood High School went to Howell High School to ‘shadow’ other students for the day. Several weeks previous, twenty-five students from Howell came to Spotswood for a day. The Lead for Diversity Club and several other clubs and leadership classes around the country participate in the School Swap every [...]

By: Daniel Estrada
People all around the country gave up speaking for a day. Its purpose was to show how people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (L.G.B.T) are silenced by society because of their sexual orientation.
Mrs. VanDoren, the advisor of Lead for Diversity at Spotswood High School said “I was pleased with the turn [...]

By: Lizzy Franz
The Spotswood High School bands of the 2009-2010 school year are so good, they took home the gold.
This year’s jazz, concert, and wind ensemble bands consisted of many young, talented individuals with a passion for music. In April, the bands went to Busch Gardens, Virginia, to compete with other schools around the country.  [...]

By: Jack Hummel
Listed below are the students who received recognition at the DECA State Leadership Conference held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, February 24-26, 2010. The Chapter at Spotswood High School did extremely well. As a school we entered 48 participants and 28 finalists qualified!  As of right now, fifteen students will be competing in the DECA [...]