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Photo Gallery: Dancing the Night Away at Homecoming 2013

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Friday night’s homecoming dance at Branford High School seemed like a great success. The commons were filled with more than 400 students. The location, originally set in the big gym, had to be relocated due to an overwhelming turnout of students buying tickets. There was lots of dancing, great music, and fun times for everyone. Students from all grades attended the dance which lasted 4

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Lifetime and Personal Fitness Classes Grow Stronger

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By Justin Veilleux The lifetime and personal fitness classes both have grown recently as they offer an alternative for students to take instead of a regular physical education class. Lifetime Fitness is a class where students do numerous activities to help them with their physical strength and their mental strength. The class started 3 years ago. “The goal is to introduce students to activities like training, yoga,

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Home Coming Back: A Look Into Homecoming 2013

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By Shradha Shrestha This year, Branford High School will hold a homecoming dance – with a catchy twist – to introduce spirit week. For many years, BHS hasn’t had any homecoming event besides powder-puff to increase school spirit. However, this fall seems to be turning out quite different. The dance will take place in the big gym on November 15th from 7:30 pm-10: 30 pm. Unlike

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BHS Veteran’s Day Ceremony 2013

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By: Sam Bailey-Loomis, Editor Today, Branford High School held its annual Veteran’s Day celebration, honoring more than 30 local veterans. The event was organized by the school’s Horizons Program, and has been an anticipated event recurring annually for 14 years since 1999. Veterans from World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Korean War were all present. After second period, students from all grades gathered together

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Getting Ready to Roll: Pre-game Rituals Important for BHS Goalie

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Editor’s note: In anticipation of the team’s appearance in the Class L Girls Soccer state tournament, The Buzz asked staring goalie Becca Vitale, ’14, to share how she prepares for each game. She has some pretty particular pre-game rituals. By Becca Vitale “Hi, can I have a medium hot carmel latte skim, please?” It’s 7 a.m. and I am ordering my latte, already getting in

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A Senior’s Take: Reaching The Final Steps Of High School

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By Shradha Shrestha   Senior Michaela Hobbs, who is preparing to say goodbye to high school, is used to being busy. So a recent injury did little to slow her down. Hobbs, 17, field hockey captain, music and honors student, injured herself during a varsity game on the BHS field against Guilford. So far, this is the second injury of the field hockey season. She

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Fallback Starts Sunday, Set Those Clocks

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By Heather Beedle With the promise of an extra hour of sleep and an earlier sunset, daylight savings time ends this Sunday at 2 a.m. And this transformation or “fallback” is seen as a great advantage to students at Branford High School. Everyone will get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning. “This extra hour allows me to be more rested for the school day

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In Between Everything, Students Find it Tough to Squeeze in Enough Sleep

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By Justin Veilleux and Sabrina Stemm Many BHS students face great difficulty balancing the challenges of school, extra curricular activities, and work while attempting to get enough sleep every night. According to The National Sleep Foundation,“Students need 9 ¼ hours of sleep each night to function best.” The ability to learn, listen and concentrate become inhibited without proper sleep, according to the Sleep Foundation. According

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Lots of Different Halloween Looks for BHS Students

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By Faythe Ventresca Between childhood memories, hit TV shows and movies, adventurers, and animals – BHS students filled the school with Halloween spirit Thursday. Each sport team had themes that they had planned for a while and were excited to dress up. Check out @BranfordBuzz on Twitter for even more pictures. The cheerleading team dressed as the TY Beanie Babies Collection. Each team member was a

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Teen Brains, Still Under Construction

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By Sophie Angelo Recently, on a beautiful Saturday in October, I found myself on the rotting roof of someone’s old garage in East Haven, CT.  In order to raise money for a mission trip planned for the following summer, I volunteered to help out on a roofing job.  I was thoroughly enjoying the first-time thrill of being 20 feet off the ground with no harnesses

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