By Brittany Lauro – Newport unveiled its true Halloween spirit on Saturday, Oct. 15, with Ballard Park’s 9th annual Pumpkin Tour. The tour featured a display of over one thousand ingeniously carved jack-o-lanterns lined along Ballard Park, through the brush and even in the trees. The tour took approximately thirty minutes to complete and brought nothing but dropped jaws andRead More

By Kelsey Murray – As kids, we couldn’t wait for Oct. 31. Halloween meant dressing up in our favorite characters, running around in the dark with the other ghouls and goblins, and eating a massive amount of candy.   However, is all this candy making Halloween an unhealthy holiday? According to the US Census Bureau’s latest statistics, Americans, on average,Read More

By: Vita Duva – In the summer of 2009, an electric machine controlled by the hands of a tattoo artist rapidly drove a single needle in and out of a 20-year-old woman’s un-inked skin; spelling out the name “Tarin Elise” in cursive block letters, later encircled by a streaming free-handed design. Accompanied by a trusted friend (already seasoned with ink),Read More

By: Brittany Lauro Could 2012 be the year without a summer? Imagine a life without bare feet on the blacktop; a life where skin is rarely sun-kissed and sand in your beach bottoms is nonexistent. Kiss the bells and chimes of the ice cream man goodbye and forget the familiar songs of nighttime crickets. Eliminate these delightful and steadfast summerRead More

By: Emily Ferro and Alexandra Ventura – When a student nears the end of their high school career, there is one subject that is brought up continuously: college. What schools are they looking at, when do they need to apply, are they excited to leave home? But before students can start prattling off the list of schools they wish toRead More