By Melissa Mirabello

Earlier this year, I asked my Accelerated English 10 students to write an expository essay. Some selected the topic “How to say goodbye.” I remember their inspiring words from these essays, yet one sentiment resonates the most: a goodbye should be personalized and sincere. I aspire to meet both criteria as I bid farewell to a passion of mine, the BHS school newspaper, The Redcoat Review.

By Mark Wagoner

By Matt Cavedon, Copy Editor

By Marco Vernacatola

You might think that most people’s religious beliefs help make them the ideal human being: kind, forgiving and hard working. Sadly, for most people, this is not the case. Religion is a set of moral beliefs on which to base one’s life. Its main purpose is to make you a better person, but very easily and all too often it is used for the wrong purposes. Sadly, the wrong purpose is all too often manifested.

By Matt Cavedon, Copy Editor

The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

By The BHS Journalism Class

While Berlin High School students may graduate with an acute knowledge of how to survive on a French ski slope, and the ability to order a strawberry milkshake in a Spanish café, many feel that they leave their language classes with few practical applications under their belt. The style of teaching foreign languages, both in BHS and in other area schools, is greatly lacking in regards to the needs of the modern high school graduate.