“Around eighty percent of seniors have taken at least one art class. This allows the Senior Art Show to bring together a lot of people with otherwise diverse interests, which is really amazing,” said Oyster River High School art teacher Maria Rosi of the upcoming senior exposition. Serving as an opportunity... Continue Reading →
Alie Santin’s summer started like any other. As a seventeen-year-old student at Oyster River High School, she spent her days off relaxing by her family’s backyard pool and jumping on their new trampoline, both of which gave her an outlet for her self-proclaimed high levels of energy. Santin shared the same excitements... Continue Reading →
As someone who grew up during the rise of social media, Grace Castonguay’s “The Pressure Behind the Post” hit close to home. Comparing yourself to someone else is never easy, especially when sites like Instagram allow for users to find thousands of accounts in the blink of an eye. With these comparisons, came... Continue Reading →
Senior night. The only game throughout a season where you are guaranteed to see an abundance of fatheads, balloons, and posters celebrating the finale of an athlete’s four years of hard work and dedication to their respective sport. And while most teams’ senior nights are memorable, there was a particularly special feeling in the gym... Continue Reading →
The Preface Last fall, Mouth of the River published “Smokescreen: Why Students Juul” in issue one of the magazine. Since that time, Juul Vapor Labs has faced national criticism for attracting an audience that has been primarily composed of underage users. Such criticisms were recently brought into a new light when it was revealed that... Continue Reading →
For many, high school is a great time to further explore interests outside of class through clubs and other experiences. But now that Oyster River’s number of extracurricular opportunities is nearing hundreds, where should one draw the line? As a freshman, I was left pondering the same question. Attending a school with such a high... Continue Reading →
For the Oyster River High School track and field team, most weekday afternoons are spent practicing drills and lifting weights. This changed on Tuesday, January 8th, when the male sprint crew instead headed to the University of New Hampshire for a meet like no other. Held as a fundraiser for the university’s own track and... Continue Reading →
If you spent any amount of time in downtown Durham this summer, you may have seen a collection of fold out chairs, long-range camera lenses, and binoculars along Madbury Road as birdwatchers from across the country flocked to catch site of a pair of nesting Mississippi kites. After receiving... Continue Reading →
On Saturday and Sunday, October 13th and 14th, the town of Madbury celebrated its 250th anniversary. The days’ celebrations included food and craft vendors, informational booths, and a historical reenactment, all of which helped unite the community over the town’s significant role in the American Revolution. “Madbury played a key role in something called the... Continue Reading →
On Sunday, June 3rd, a new kind of team played for the first time on the athletic fields at Oyster River High School. The Student Athlete Leadership Team (SALT) and Best Buddies programs hosted a bubble soccer tournament as part of the first-ever Spring Carnival. Alongside the tournament, which... Continue Reading →
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