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Me and my Camera: an unhealthy love affair
You’d be surprised the amount of trouble my Camera’s gotten me into – did you know it’s illegal to pullover on the side of the freeway to take pictures?
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AP Sock Hop rocks the night away
Advanced Placement United States History students filled the Student Union on April 27 for the AP Sock Hop dance. The dance was an interactive history lesson setup by several APUSH students as their semester project, having a fifties “sock hop” theme. The Sock Hop had live music, provided by the Flopnik, a band consisting of…
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Power Outage stops class
Around 11 o’clock yesterday, students and teachers in class were suddenly thrown into the dark as lights, computers and smart-boards around the school turned off. According to Carlmont’s School Resource Officer, the outage was caused by a faulty transformer located in San Carlos. While power was restored minutes after the outage began, teachers had to work around to…
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Belmont City Council wraps up October
The Belmont City Council stayed up late last night, where they approved a new retirement program for city safety workers and heard from the town’s financial oversight and audit commission who gave the town a clean bill of financial health. The Council also heard from the community in an open public comments session. The Belmont…
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Choir rocks the night away at British Invasion
With the sun setting behind them and a sold out crowd before them, Carlmont’s choir sang the night away with their concert British Invasion. The concert, set up to support Carlmont’s preforming arts program, included songs by the Bee Gees, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. “(It) just seemed like a fun theme everyone would…
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Belmont Incumbents safe, Royce loses in San Carlos
Belmont and San Carlos’ city council elections have finally concluded, and some candidates can breathe a sign of relief while others are looking for a new job. Incumbent David Braunstien, who is also a Carlmont history teacher, captured 36% of the vote, sealing his reelection with a comfortable lead, while his college Christine Wozniak scraped…
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Carlmont Arts Department now available online
The entire Carlmont Arts Department is available 24/7 via the internet, on the department’s newly created website in the school district’s domain at http://www.seq.org/~ca_art/carlmont_high_school_art_department/Carlmont_High_school_art_Department.html. The website, created by ceramics teacher Tina Condos, complements Carlmontarts.com, the art program’s other website created by Animation teacher Joshua Sheridan, which focuses on Carlmont’s computer-based graphic arts programs. “we wanted…
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Devaluation of the Diploma: the real value of a high school education
The high school diploma is a symbolic, if not traditional, gesture of our maturity into adulthood. Behind all of the pomp and circumstance, the high school diploma is today less an achievement than it is a stepping stone towards college or technical training. The high school diploma was in an earlier time a symbol of…
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Softball Coach Ligget gets 900th win
Last Thursday, Carlmont’s varsity softball team celebrated an 8-1 win against Capuchino. But it was more than just a win for Coach Jim Liggett, as the victory over Capuchino have him his 900th win in his career. “It’s a good tribute to the types of players we get here at carlmont, and to the softball…
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The money behind the movement: Kony 2012
The Kony 2012 campaign was created to spread awareness of the charity Invisible Children, who asks for donations alongside promotional items, such as buttons and signs, geared towards spreading their message. But where exactly does the money go? According to their website and Charity Navigator ( a leading website that rates charities based on their…
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