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The Student News Site of Orono High School

The Spartan Speaks

The Student News Site of Orono High School

The Spartan Speaks

Having a support system can help a person during hard times.

Being There in the Moment

Grace Reiners, Visuals Editor November 18, 2016

Social support system refers to a network of people-friends, family, and peers-that we can turn to for emotional and practical support, according to University at Buffalo. A solid reliable friendship can...

Fans prove powerful in sports success

Shelby Earley, Staff Reporter April 28, 2014

With the winter sports seasons ending in mid-March, fans were sad to see the events come to a close. Considering nine of the 12 winter sports sent a representative to State this year, students were...

OHS juniors and seniors show support by wearing purple

Orono schools show support for seventh grader Mara Norton

February 7, 2013

Twelve-year-old Mara Grace Norton is a seventh grader at OMS with a rare disease known as MPS VI. This abbreviated term is short for the medical name of the disease, mucopolysaccharidosis VI. According...

They call him Gus

They call him “Gus”

December 14, 2012

Spencer “Gus” Gustafson grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is tall and blonde and known to his peers as a smiling, laid back guy. But behind every smile is a story. At the end of eighth grade,...

Mayhews team mates from North Shore Gymnastics visit her in the hospital after her injury. Photo courtesy of Kayla Roiland

Catch me when I fall

May 23, 2012

For those of you who haven’t seen me limping around the hallway, I have a major gymnastics injury. On Jan. 21, I crushed my tibia, tore my lateral collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments and...

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