Avo Reid ‘22 News Reporter During the last few weekends, Mercersburg Academy students gathered to watch soccer games. The spectators wore masks, and the competition was intrasquad, but there were uniforms, coaches,…
Day: November 4, 2020
Making a difference
Bube Osaji ‘22 News Reporter The wonderful thing about the theme “Making a Difference” is that its meaning varies greatly among all of us. The building blocks of our lives are the…
Mural battles
By: Maggie Betkowski ‘21 News Reporter Returning students know that every year the CommArts Springboard creates large murals in the middle of the quad as part of the collaborative Mural Battles project….
Why I’m staying on campus
By Alex Cho ‘23 News Reporter Students have constantly been told that they took a big risk by coming to Mercersburg for the Fall term. Now that this momentous yet repetitive term…
Glowed up
By Stanley Fang ‘21 News Reporter On the night of October 23, streaks of neon lights flashed across the dark horizon, illuminating the Mercersburg Academy campus. That night, the school’s Community Engagement…
PG culture
By: Isabella Van Ess ‘22 News Reporter Boarding schools are known for their postgraduate programs. Postgrads (or PGs) are students who decide to take an extra year of high school to improve…
Why I’m going virtual this winter
By: Melody Howe ‘22 News Reporter As a new eleventh grader at Mercersburg Academy, I made the unexpected decision this term not to return to campus for in-person learning this Winter. Although…
Mburgs political club
Alex Cho ‘23 News Reporter In a world characterized by an extremely divided political climate, students at Mercersburg can only look outward with apprehension and uneasiness. Never in our lives have we…
Maurer captured
By: Isabel Lewis ‘21 News Reporter On October 16, during the annual Capture the Faculty game, the notorious and never apprehended English teacher Matt Maurer was finally caught. Maurer has played the…
Fall Dance Concert
By: Mathew Tavarez ‘22 News Reporter COVID-19 has drastically changed daily lives at Mercersburg Academy and how students interact with one another. Most after-school activities look vastly different this year, and dance…