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The student voice of St. George's Independent School.

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The student voice of St. George's Independent School.

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STAR Guide to Surviving High School

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell April 19, 2017

High school can be tough. As graduating seniors, we would know. As our last issue of STAR News, we are bringing you some of our best advice in a guide to surviving high school. Thank you for subscribing,...

STAR Newsletter Issue 13: The Last Time

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell April 8, 2017

Claw-Machine Master 35-year-old Chen Zhitong deserves an award. Truly. Last year, Zhitong won 15,000 stuffed animals. He is so renowned in his neighborhood that the owners of various local restaurants...

STAR Guide to Entertainment

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell March 31, 2017

What We're Listening To... New Albums: "More Life" by Drake "American Teen" by Khalid "Divide" by Ed Sheeran "24k Magic" by Bruno Mars "The Search for Everything" by John Mayer "Souvenir"...

STAR Newsletter Issue 12: The Final Countdown

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell March 24, 2017

Meet Julia World, meet Julia, a Sesame Street muppet that is taking the web by storm. Next month, the popular children’s show will add Julia, a four-year-old girl with autism, to its cast. Julia loves...

STAR Newsletter Issue 11: Schoolin’ Life

Miriam Brown, Laura McDowell, and Kai Taylor February 24, 2017

Coming Soon To A Grocery Store Near You Say buh-bye to the ambiguous “sell-by” dates on food. The Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers Association announced last Wednesday that...

STAR Guide to the College Process

Miriam Brown, Editor-in-Chief February 15, 2017

The college process can make high school a stressful time. Luckily, we at STAR News are here to make that process easier. Here is (almost) everything you need to know about the college search.   Researching...

STAR Newsletter Issue 10: Never Gonna Give You Up

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell February 10, 2017

Who Let The Dogs Out? Be careful what kind of music you play around your dogs...because they may be listening. A recent study from researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland shows that dogs...

STAR Newsletter Issue 9: Stressed Out

Miriam Brown, Laura McDowell, and Kai Taylor January 27, 2017

Storm Chaser Where should you hide the next time there’s a tornado warning? A bathtub. At least, that’s what a woman in Texas is probably saying. Terrible thunderstorms and tornadoes made their...

STAR Newsletter Issue 8: Cry me a river

Miriam Brown, Laura McDowell, and Kai Taylor January 19, 2017

Pizza Our Heart You can say goodbye to those pesky, midnight cravings. This month, 24-hour pizza ATMs will be implemented in various businesses and colleges in 20 different states and Canada. The French...

STAR Newsletter Issue 7: Good tidings we bring

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell December 5, 2016

Frozen In Time A dying 14 year-old girl was just granted her last wish – to be frozen instead of buried. The young British girl was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, so she wanted to be cryogenically...

STAR Newsletter Issue 6: I will survive

Miriam Brown, Kai Taylor, and Laura McDowell November 18, 2016

Curtains Closed And the 45th President of the United States is… not Hillary Clinton. In a surprise turn of events, the Tuesday election ended with Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States....

STAR Newsletter Issue 5: You found me

Miriam Brown, Laura McDowell, and Kai Taylor October 28, 2016

Lost in Translation A Georgia teen woke up from a three-day coma and started speaking fluent Spanish...for the first time in his life. The sixteen-year-old, Rueben Nsemoh, suffered a life-threatening...

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