John Xu ’22 Sports Editor The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the largest athletic event in the world, was scheduled to take place this summer. On March 24, amid increasing pressure from athletes…
Day: April 17, 2020
Closing campus
Katrina Lovegren ’21 Front Page Editor Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mercersburg Academy’s campus has closed for the remaining term of the 2019-2020 school year. But with Mercersburg Academy’s new “Virtual ‘Burg,”…
Bringing a new meaning to “Digital Arts”
Maggie Betkowski ’21 Arts Editor The spread of coronavirus has caused Mercersburg Academy faculty to re-evaluate the way that their students will continue to learn. The first big switch has been the…
Is the government doing enough for lower income Americans?
Zain Qureshi ’22 Opinion Editor Despite the recent prosperity of the 2010s, 25 percent of Americans have no emergency funds, and another 23 percent have only enough in savings to cover their…
Stay home, please!
Lian Wang ’21 Opinion Editor Social distancing is one of the easiest and most effective ways of curbing the spread of COVID-19, yet many still forgo it for parties, gatherings, and other…
Keeping the Blue Storm community together
Ben Rihn ’22 Sports Editor With the recent and ever-changing developments of the coronavirus and the prevalent mentality of social distancing, high school athletics have suffered serious setbacks due to the universal…