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  • Boys’ Basketball Has Crowd in Suspense

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Caitlin Hicks, Print Editor

    The Boys’ Basketball team has a 3-4 record losing to Waterloo, Wayne, Geneva, and Dundee. They defeated Newark, Romulus and Penn Yan. The first game was played against Romulus where the team had a ver

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  • Fruit Cakes come to Whitman

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Nikki Rider and Mitchell McLean, Staff Writers

    Marcus Whitman Middle School Drama Club presented the play called Fruit Cakes. The middle school play was performed Friday December 17th at 7:10 pm, Saturday December 18th at 2:10 pm and 7:10 pm, and

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  • The field trip of the future is closer then you think

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Ben Pollhein, Staff Writer

    A field trip without leaving school? What kind of insanity is this? I thought this as I was being told the Gorham Elementary school would be the first school in the district to experience a new way to

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  • Masterminds challenges area schools in tests of knowledge

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Sage Daugherty, Staff Writer

    Masterminds is off to a great start! Advised by Mr. Santonastaso, competitors include junior Alex Eddinger and seniors Jen Barnoski, Katie Berry, Molly Norris, Rachel Sawyer, Melyssa Shively and Dan Y

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  • The exciting new year with Mrs. Mitchell

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Katie Fogarty, Staff Writer

    With Mr. Eddinger and many other teachers who have retired, many new teachers have taken over Marcus Whitman to fill these positions. Mrs. Mitchell was hired for the Special Education department. She

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  • A present for the whole family

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Brandon Hubbard, Staff Writer

    As the snow fell upon the hilly land of Middlesex and Rushville children flocked to the Marcus Whitman high school to see their favorite man in red. Santa, role taken proudly by Brian Law, was coming

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  • Physical education now has more choices

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Brittney Giguere, Staff Writer

    Ms. Taft, Mr. Silco and Mr. Cunningham have worked very hard for this past year thinking of ways to improve their students’ academics in their classes. This year’s new physical education program gives

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  • ECO students are keeping busy

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Caitlin Hicks, Print Editor

    There isn’t a dull moment in the life of a student participating in ECO. Right now, the students are working on an animal research report project. This is when a student researches a topic of their ch

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  • A goat is on the loose!

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Mitchell McLean, Staff Writer

    An unusual presentation was held in the middle school learning room the 15th of December. A goat was brought in because Michaela Myer wanted to present what she does at home in her free time. A friend

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  • Viewing a Piece of History

    Thursday, January 20, 2011 By: Joanne Emerson, Gorham Elementary Teacher

    Students at Gorham Elementary attended a presentation by Mr. Steve Mumby and Mrs. George A. Howard, Sr. recently. They were here on behalf of the Town of Gorham Historical Society to share information

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The Whitman Word Marcus Whitman High School Rushville, NY
Issue Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Issue: Volume 4, Issue 4 Last Update: Thursday, January 20, 2011

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Narnia sets sail once more on “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"
The much talked about continuation of the epic Chronicles of Narnia series has finally arrived to the big screen with a release date of December 10, 2010. I had the pleasure of seeing this movie and t
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Uglies makes readers question common labels
What would you think of yourself in a world where normal is “ugly?” This is the question asked by bestselling author Scott Westerfeld in his novel, Uglies. It is the story of Tally Youngblood, a girl
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The final collaboration between Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she i
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TRON Legacy opened in box office with 43 million dollars. This incredible movie was directed by Steven Lisaberger and starred Jeff Bridges (Tron, Crazy Heart, Fearless) , Garrett Hedlund(four brothers
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The baseball program here at Whitman does many things for this community, but often goes unnoticed. For a couple months now, there has been a clothing shed set up behind Rushco in Rushville where peop
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Again this year, the Loomis Barn allowed organizations to decorate Christmas trees to support the Friendship House food pantry for people in need within the Marcus Whitman School District. The winner
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Mrs. Blueye, the Marcus Whitman chorus teacher, and her student teacher from Ithaca College Ms. Henning took this year’s High School chorus of 55 students to the Canandaigua V.A. on December 23rd, 201
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This holiday season, the faculty and staff of the Marcus Whitman School District held a toy drive for the Friendship House in Middlesex, New York. They collected new toys and books for children aged u
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Sheila Brown is a very integral part of the Marcus Whitman Board of Education. As a graduate of Marcus Whitman and with her own children in the school district, she wanted to be “involved in and aware
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Going into the season, the girls’ modified cheerleading team was not lacking in numbers. The coach of the team Wendy Kierst was looking to her girls to stay dedicated. What shocked coach Kierst was ju
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