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  • A Visit From The Jolly Man In The Red Suit

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Cierra Perot

    The community was recently visited by none other than Santa Claus himself. The Leadership In Action class held a community-wide breakfast with Santa Saturday morning, December 8th, from 8 to 11am in t

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  • Girls’ Varsity Basketball Tradition

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Marshall Fladd

    This season’s Girls’ Varsity Basketball has been playing amazingly well, due to their new coach and a great variety of players, which forms the perfect balance of speed and height. Furthermore, this

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  • Remarkable Close To The Varsity Boys’ Soccer Season

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Brooke Leone

    The 2007 soccer season was tough for the Varsity Boys and they had numerous challenges. However, at the end of the season, the team and individual players received a variety of awards. The Coach’s Awa

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  • Improving Their Skills

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Brooke Leone

    On December 12, 2007, the Whitman Bowling Team had a home match against Wayne. This match took place at Roseland Bowl in Canandaigua. The girls played three games and won their first with a score

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  • Lightin’ The Fire

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Kortney Oliver

    The Boys’ Varsity Basketball players have many ways of getting pumped up for the game ahead. Before each game, they do what is called “locker pre-game.” This is where the players and coaches come up w

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  • JV Spotlight

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Kortney Oliver

    Jack Myers is a freshman and a key player on the JV Boys’ Basketball team. When asked if his team gets along well, he replied “yeah, for the most part. It is a little hard for the eighth graders to ha

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  • Homework…Help!

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Cassidy Ewing

    Attention anyone who has homework, who has had homework or who hates homework! The Homework Help program is back for its third year here at Marcus Whitman, thanks to Mr. Warren and Mrs. Arnold. Homewo

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  • Agriculture Students Compete At SUNY Cobleskill

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Cassidy Ewing

    Agricultural Students attended a competition at SUNY Cobleskill in September where they competed against 20 other schools. Whitman had many successful competitors. At the competition, the following st

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  • Come With Spirit To The Spirit Center

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Stephanie Cota

    The presence of the school bookstore was a tradition for many years. In 2007, the tradition was changed a bit. The students at Marcus Whitman have come together to create an online Whitman Spirit Cent

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  • Highway Safety In The Winter Weather

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Kilee Brown

    This year, the winter weather has started sooner than in previous years and many of us have already pulled out our winter vehicles and our snow tires. However, many new drivers are asking, “How do I d

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It is inevitable that in the coming decades, we, the United States’ high school and college students will inherit challenges from our parents’ generation. Problems such as excessive use of fossil fuel
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This Year’s Football stars Tyler Stell and Jordan Hathorn received the First Team All-star Award for their amazing football achievements. Both of these athletes where chosen out of all of the teams i
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On Friday, the 14th of December, some of the Leadership In Action students did a great thing to help raise awareness about people not as fortunate as others from 8 pm to 8 am. They slept outside in b
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CapricornThere are some powerful forces in the aisles which you have to keep your eye on. It’s probably best to keep out of power battles.SagittariusYour lifestyle is about to radically change and you
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New students from grades 9-12 join the band with at least three years of experience on an instrument. Although, they get help from Mrs. Sihto, the band teacher, they are, by then, experienced enough t
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On December 7, 2007, The Golden Compass hit the theaters. It is an adaptation of the Carnegie Medal-winning novel by Philip Pullman, the first volume in the his Dark Materials trilogy. It is about a
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The Marcus Whitman High School Chorus was proud to put on its 2007 district winter concert. This annual concert includes the Middle School Chorus, High School Chorus and two instrumental bands. This y
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Why aren’t we allowed to use cell phones in schools? Some schools in the United States don’t worry about the use of cell phones during school hours. Cell phones are not allowed during classes and test
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The views of the Opinion Section are those of the writer and not necessarily those of The Whitman Word, Marcus Whitman High School or the Marcus Whitman Central

School District.
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It is inevitable that in the coming decades, we, the United States’ high school and college students will inherit challenges from our parents’ generation. Problems such as excessive use of fossil fuel
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