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So far Sonoma Academy has created 114 blog entries.

On the AGOGO!

By Allison Ashley This summer, Sonoma Academy junior Tucker Crull worked at an internship in San Francisco where he helped create and design the application AGOGO. The app, which was designed for easy access while driving, has podcasts, music, live radio shows, live traffic, horoscopes and articles, which it can [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Critter Corner: Introducing Lil’ Champ

By Sydney Weil Among the many new faces around campus, there is one in particular that stands out. And he’s not human. “Everybody loves me,” said Lil’ Champ himself. “And I’m happy wherever there is someone to pat my belly.” Champ has been coming to school with Head of School [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

Campfires, councils and core values

By Sydney Weil Retreat has always been a part of Sonoma Academy’s history, having started the year the school opened (2001). “Retreats are a special opportunity for students to hopefully see one another in new ways after a long summer,” Dean of Students Stacy Cohen said. While retreats have been [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

Shana Tova

By Ilana Shotkin Everyone celebrates holidays in different ways, and Sonoma County’s Jews are no different. September and October are filled with some of the most important holidays of the Jewish year. On September 17, Jews around the world congregated to celebrate the start of a new year with apples [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

We Are the 49%

By Allison Ashley Obama or Romney? We need to be involved. Our future depends on it. Most teenagers are too young to vote, but that doesn’t mean our ideas can’t influence other eligible voters. Obtaining the right to vote when turning 18 is someone’s first chance to represent the younger [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

Family Ties

By Morgan Apostle “Brandon’s too weird to be awkward,” says Irma Spars of her husband, Brandon. The Spars family is undoubtedly a huge part of Sonoma Academy life. With both parents working and their daughter Clara a freshman this year, almost the entire family goes to Sonoma Academy every morning [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

Smile Like Shirley

By Allison Ashley “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” - Aesop When my 20-year old-cousin Michelle was 13, she wrote a story in seventh grade English class that she read to me when I was nine years old. The name of the story was “Smiling [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

No Return to Hell This Year

By Amy Pino Not many people can say they’ve felt the ground-shaking rumble of a volcano in action right beneath their feet. The students and teachers that attended the Mt. Lassen camping trip last year had that amazing experience. “I believe in experiential education,” said Sam Horton, which explains why [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

Freezing Toes

By Allison Ashley “’Splash!’ was the sound I heard as we dove into the water. The 50-degree water slapped me in the face, sending me into shock. ‘I can’t do this’ I muttered under my breath, deep down knowing that wasn’t true. So I kept pushing. I pushed until I [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments

Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

By Sierra Maciorowski Old photographs tell stories across time, passing on images of what has been and never will be again. However, very few photographs travel through loops in time, have content that borders on impossible, and eventually lead to an elderly grandfather murdered by strange creatures called “hollowgasts." As [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments