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Issue # 1 Newspaper Participants: Ms.Roche

Kevin Alves

Maddy Arroyas

Vini Cunha

Jenna Dagle

Ben Fox

Madison Hey

Ava Lawyer

Jake Lutton

Evan Maietta

Foram Patel

Jacob Robbins

Matthew Robertson

Kayte Rooney

Nathaniel Thompson

Inside this Edition:

Fun With Your Dog

Sweet Treat

App Review

Political Hub

Turning Blue

Poems

My Wheelchair

Buddy

Mrs. Clark Interview

By Madison Hey and Ava Lawyer

Q: What is your fa-

vorite color?

A: Different shades

of green

Q: How long have

you been teaching?

A: Close to 15 years

Q: What is your fa-

vorite food?

A: Pizza or lobster

Q: Do you have any

pets?

A: A dog named

Barney and 2 cats

named Molly and Lucky

Q: What’s your favorite

dessert?

A: Cheesecake

By Matthew Robertson

This recipe is from my

grandma. I love this

cake and it’s very easy

to make! You will

probably have all the

ingredients on your

pantry shelf today! I

call this “Easy

Chocolate Cake”. It

takes few ingredients

and is delicious.

Ingredients:

1 ½ cup of flour

1 cup of water

1 cup of sugar

6 Tbsp. of Crisco oil

3 Tbsp. of Coco

6 tsp. of vanilla

1 tsp. of baking soda

1 Tbsp. white vinegar

challenging enough to

want you to keep

coming back.

Instead of ducks to col-

lect, you will try and

get “ gnomes”,

remarkably. And the

bombs from last time?

They are replaced with

freeze and heat rays

that turn your water

Now, today we

will be reviewing

“Where's My Perry?”

which is a

tablet/Smartphone spin

off of “Where’s My

Water?”, I've had it for

a while and it is quite

entertaining. The levels

are ingenious and

into ice and steam. This

doesn't mean game

over. You need them on

some levels to get the

water to activate Perry's

tube to the base.

Good luck!

~Ben~

App Review

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Uxbridge

First

Night

December 1,

2012,

at Riverbend

Farm and

downtown

Uxbridge

Sift dry ingredients into a

bowl. Add remaining

ingredients and stir. Pour

into an 8 by 8 pan and bake

on 375 degrees for 30

minutes

I hope you enjoy this

recipe and use it …

Enjoy!

~Jake ~

Sweet Treat

By Jake Lutton

By Ben Fox

App Review

By Nathaniel Thompson

The App of the Month is the Halloween edition of “Where’s My Wa-ter?” with the new level called “10 days of Frankenweenie”. In-stead of rubber duckies, there are ZOMBIE rubber duckies and the main menu is black, white, and green. You really should get this app if you

don’t have it. It’s really, really fun!

Swampy’s rubber duck Swampy(not real Swampy, see Where’s My Water app) (not Swampy’s real rub-ber ducky, see Where’s my water app)

The MMS Political Hub Page 3

By: Jacob Robbins

WELCOME

(This article is my view point of Obama care and the laws he changed. It is also included with facts of the minimum wage law.) HELLO and welcome to the McCloskey School Newspa-per! This is the political section and will be from here on out. This may be late and you may already know this but President Obama was re-elected for a 2nd term. President Obama is a democrat. Although he has talked about how his Obama Care will help the country. The Obama care health plan is meant to do one thing; give govern-

ment money to those who are elderly and are retired. President Obama “improved” a law which raised the mini-mum wage for all em-ployees, which is good, but the minimum wage is so high that compa-nies can't keep the health care for their employees. The law states that the C.E.O. of a company MUST have health care for each and every employee while they are on the job. The issue is that the minimum wage is so high, that compa-nies have to drop em-

ployees due to the cost of health care, which means less people to pay tax money, and that means less money going to the govern-ment. Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a good day.

Dear Michelle, I have a problem with math. I just don’t un-derstand most of the work that we do. I want to stay for extra help, but I am afraid that people will think I’m stupid. I feel em-barrassed to stay. What should I do? From, Math-Stinks

Dear Math-stinks, If you have a prob-lem with math, just ask the teacher if you can stay after. I do get it can be embarrassing to stay after, so ask if you can stay on a different day than the nor-mal extra help day. Just remember,

everyone has problems with at least one sub-ject. Don’t be embarrassed .

Ask Michelle

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Have a

question for

Michelle? Please submit

questions to the

yellow box in the

cafeteria or email

the newspaper

editors at

kayte.rooney@ux

bridge.k12.ma.us

Today we will be reviewing something en-tirely unrelated to video games. What I'm talking about is the book for which a new movie is coming out, The Hobbit. My parents made me read it, so I could watch the movie when it comes out. It is a very interest-ing book packed with adventures and action. I read from cover to cover, devouring it at every page. There are many twists and turns in

The Hobbit Review

the story along with sad-ness in the loss of char-acters.

Frisbee is a

fun sport to play

with your dog. All

you need is a soft

Frisbee and a dog.

Check with your vet

to make sure its okay

for dog to play Fris-

bee. Don’t en-

courage your dog to

jump off the ground

to catch it until he or

she is a year old.

You don’t want to

hurt their growing

bones.

Once you get

an okay from your

vet you are ready to

start. First, start by

Fun With Your Dog

having the dog sit next

to you and roll the

Frisbee so he or she

will chase it. Then call

the dog back to you

with the Frisbee in

their mouth and give

the dog a treat. This is

so they learn to bring

it back to you.

Once he or she

has mastered this you

can start throwing it

low and short. Until he

or she learns to catch

it. This might take a

while so be patient.

Once they get

this done you can add

different tricks and

longer throws and

higher, so then your

dog jumps and twists

in the air.

There are all

kinds of different

competitions for all

levels of ability. You

will have a lot of fun

and meet new

friends. It will create

a strong, loving bond

between you and

your dog.

By Madison Hey

My Fat Cat

By Ava Lawyer

My cat is fat

His belly I pat

He’s a brat

I said “scat”

But he just sat

What a dingbat

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HELLO. I

AM A RE-

PORTER AND

WHAT YOU ARE

READING IS

SUPER IMPOR-

TANT. THE

PEOPLE IN

NEW YORK

AND NEW

J ERSY NEED

OUR HELP.

THEY WILL

NOT HAVE

POWER FOR A

LONG TIME. SO

PLEASE BE

KIND AND DO-

NATE TO STU-

DENT COUN-

CIL. WE WILL

GIVE ALL THE

MONEY WE

COLLECT TO

NEW YORK

AND NEW

J ERSY. SO IF

YOU DO, YOU

WILL SAVE A

LIFE.

Hurricane Sandy

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By Matthew Robertson

WHEEL CHAIR BUDDY!!

Once upon a time

there was a little boy

named Johnny about the

age of 11 who had a trau-

matic car accident when

he was little and almost

died, and he has been in a

wheelchair ever since. He

comes to school in a su-

per Hi-Tech helicopter

which teleported him

By Vini Cunha

right into the school.

One day the heli-

copter crashed right as it

was carrying him to

school. He was uncon-

scious until one day he

awoke to a boy who was

trying to wake him up,

and his name was Vini.

Later that day,

Johnny and Vini were

talking and found

out they had a lot in

common and became

friends. Since that

day Vini has been

helping Johnny

around to get to

places like school,

home etc… TO BE CONTINUED

weekend,” Mother re-

plies back.

Classic mom. She

finds something I love

and slowly pulls it out

of my life, one tug at a

time.

After a half hour of

working, I sit to rest.

My hand aches from

frosting the cupcakes.

Not having had even a

minute of resting, the

bell at the counter

rings. I stand up. It

rings again. I walk to

the door leading to the

café. It rings again. I

twist the knob. This

time it rings twice. I

yank open the door and

it reveals a lady with

five inch heels,

bleached blonde hair,

and flashy hoop ear-

rings.

“Skylar? That you?

Love the name. I’m

Dallas!” She speaks in

an accent that sounds

like its from Georgia.

It’s the same

I smear the blue

frosting on my apron

and stick the last cup-

cake in the box. Strug-

gling, I move the heavy

box to the counter.

“Your order is ready

at Skylar’s Cupcakes” I

politely speak into the

phone.

“Alright, honey,

thanks a bunch!” I have

to hold the phone away

from my ear a little

because the voice on

the other line is so

enthusiastically loud.

Saying goodbye and

hanging up, I’m

practically run over by

my mother.

“Oops, sorry. Big

order just came in! 30

more blue cupcakes!”

Mother says.

“Why is it always

blue ones?” I quietly

mumble.

“No attitude, Ariel,

or else no party this

enthusiastic voice I

heard on the phone

earlier.

“No, that’s my mom.

I’m Ariel. My mother

owns the shop, and I

work here. Nice to meet

you.”

“Oh! Well, Ariel is a

gorgeous name, too!”

“Thanks….. So the

cupcakes? Your order

of twelve blue beach

cupcakes are right

here,” I point to the

box. “I’ll carry it to

your car if you want.”

“Don’t be silly! I’ll

get it!”

I’m facing with my

back to Dallas when I

hear it. I had just

mumbled “Careful, it’s

heavy.” When I heard

her squeal. Then I

heard the crash.

I spin around and

can’t help but giggle.

Turning Blue

By Grace Turgeon

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By Branden Trahan

The Monthly Block Talk by Kevin Alves

This month: chain armor

Just use chain the way you’d use your other materials, and make chain with iron!

Any Minecraft questions? Submit your own in the box in the cafeteria, and it might appear here!

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