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Kim Hayes stands behind her stack of good reads.

Media center specialist organizes new Library Club

by Riya Divekar, Staff Writer December 8, 2017

Media Center specialist Kim Hayes plans to start an after school library club. The library club will meet at least once a month after school. Hayes, who began working in Glen Rock in September, is hoping...

Students from five different schools watch a live neurosurgery at Liberty Science Center. The surgery, which was part of the Live From Surgery program, was a Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion.

Anatomy students watch live neurosurgery

by Githmie Goonatilleke, Editor-in-Chief December 6, 2017

Anatomy students joined five other schools to watch a live neurosurgery at Liberty Science Center on Tuesday. According to Liberty Science Center, the Live From Surgery program “offers students a...

Hooked on helping others

Hooked on helping others

How one boy's passion for musical theater enabled him to help special needs kids, and watch them grow.
by Ann Butler, Staff Writer December 5, 2017

The Sound of Music The Little Theater is a large room in the basement of Glen Rock Middle School. To the right is a long series of mirror panels that span most of the wall. On either end of the mirror...

The senior staff of the Glen Echo traveled to New York City for a tour of the New York Times. They toured the offices and the morgue, and also had the opportunity to ask questions to a 29 year New York Times reporter.

Student journalists visit The New York Times

by The Glen Echo Staff November 17, 2017

Fifteen journalism students stood in the center of an underground morgue surrounded by a century of history, not surrounded by corpses but by newspaper clippings filed away in row after row of sorted archives.  The...

The class of 2018 girls are dressed as lifeguards for their group Halloween costume.

Senior girls “save” Halloween

by Jenny DeStefano, Facebook Manager November 14, 2017

Year after year, the senior girls walk the halls in a matching group costume on Halloween. This time around, the class of 2018 girls are making their mark on the holiday as lifeguards. Predecessors...

Nick Rogers keeps the ball in possession against Pequannock in the second round of the NJSIAA Tournament.  Despite losing the boys varsity soccer team played one of their best seasons in 30 years.

Boys varsity soccer team falls to Pequannock

Despite a strong offensive game, Glen Rock boy’s soccer fell 1-0 to Pequannock in the second round of the NJSIAA Tournament on Friday afternoon. Eighth-seeded Pequannock won the game against top-seeded...

Sophomore Jennifer DeStefano prepares to do her work in the now computer less media center.

High school goes paperless after one-to-one laptop program

by Isis Kirkland, Twitter Manager November 6, 2017

The high school aims to use less paper after implementing the one-to-one laptop program this year. Principal John Arlotta made the decision to transform the high school into a campus that uses less...

The Theatre Company will perform A Midsummers Nights Dream on Nov. 2, 3 and 4.

Theatre Company to perform Shakespearean play

by Madison Kazella, Contributing Writer November 2, 2017

The Theatre Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream will be performed on November 2, 3, and 4 at 7 p.m. at the Glen Rock High School Auditorium. Adult tickets are $10 each, and Student/Senior...

Books line the table of the library. Students met for the Mashed-Up book club in October to discuss literature, music, and art.

Students meet for public library’s book club

by Sophia Malloy, Staff Writer November 2, 2017

Teens sat together chatting excitedly on Oct. 14 in the Glen Rock Public Library.  They met for an event called the Mashed Up Book Club, a club that ties together art, songs and book discussion.   This...

Appropriately dressed for the pep rally, Stella Pereira (left) and Lizzy Bonica (right) show off their school spirit even after class is over.

Former Glen Rock student returns to Glen Rock for homecoming

by Lizzy Bonica, Staff Writer & Graphic Designer November 2, 2017

Former Glen Rock student Stella Pereira returned to her old high school from Colombia to attend the pep rally and homecoming with her friends on Oct. 19. Stella made the flight from Bogota, Colombia,...

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