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This interview has been abridged for length AC: Can you share the story of how you two met? KD: It was in the fall of your junior year, my freshman year. And I was on the cross country team, but I was super injured. And so I was collecting the warmups, you know, like those […]
Read MoreStudents within our KO community have a wide variety of talents. From athletics to arts, we see students expressing themselves in and outside of school in all sorts of ways. Sophomore Jane Morris expresses herself through dance, specifically competitive Irish step dancing. Jane began dancing at the young age of five after her mom, Associate […]
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Balancing school, work, and farm chores is a daunting yet rewarding life for junior Addisen Nicholson. Addisen, daughter of Middle School creative arts teacher Katherine Nicholson, understands the responsibilities and time it takes to operate a farm. Farming runs in her blood; her mother grew up riding horses, and her father showed dairy cows. Maintaining […]
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The KO varsity football team recently put themselves in the shoes of others and helped to lift up the community by volunteering to organize a school supply drive for the Community First School which included delivering the supplies as a team. The Community First School in Hartford serves students from kindergarten through fourth grade and […]
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Upper School math teacher Michael Greenwald does not mess around when it comes to his outfits. From his day-to-day clothing to his extravagant festival looks, Mr. Greenwlad is always showcasing an outfit that makes him feel like his best and most confident self. Mr. Greenwald characterizes how he dresses under two categories: Friday and Sunday. […]
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It’s Halloween. You just sent the last group of trick-or-treaters away with bags full of candy. Now, you’re all alone in your home. In horror movies, this is the moment when everything goes up in flames. In “Scream,” it’s a masked killer coming at the victim with a knife; in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” […]
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When you think of iconic American horror, what first comes to mind? Maybe it’s recent thrillers, like “Get Out,” “A Quiet Place,” or “Hereditary.” Maybe you’re more into stuff from the 2000s. Your Halloween movie nights consist of films like “The Ring,” “Saw,” and “The Grudge.” No matter your preference, though, there is one horror […]
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Welcome to the first edition of the ‘Studio Monthly’, in which I, Sinani Sebadduka, will share and review some of my favorite hip-hop albums of recent times, along with my tracklist of the month after the reviews. “Ganger (Deluxe Edition)” – Veeze Detroit rapper Veeze has been on an exciting rise over the past few […]
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During the summer of 2021, senior Ilianna Brett embarked on a journey of a lifetime to the Bahamas on behalf of KO’s Rosoff Fellowship for Media Arts. In the course of three weeks, Ilianna went underwater diving, ranging from 20 to 106 feet, all the while snapping beautiful images on her camera. The Rossoff Fellowship […]
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This fall KO is excited to welcome a new addition to the math team, Upper School teacher Michael Greenwald. Mr. Greenwald attended Wesleyan University for his undergraduate degree, where he studied in the College of Social Studies which covered philosophy, government, history, and economics. “I did a minor in math and computer science, and that […]
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