February 2025

What’s Next for Massachusetts’s Five Ballot Measures?

By Amelia Bala

Massachusetts voters made vital decisions this November regarding the five ballot measures, and now the focus shifts toward the future impact of these ballot measures. Three of these ballot measures…

Boys and Girls Varsity Hockey Opens Season Strong

By SOPHIE KAMIL '26 Staff Writer

The Girls’ and Boys’ Varsity Hockey Teams have started off their 2024–2025 season with a record of nine wins and four losses, ten wins, three losses, one tie respectively. The…

Athlete of the Issue: Lance Roberts

By EVELYN KUNDE '26 Associate Editor

Deerfield’s Varsity Boys Hockey and Lacrosse Captain Lance Roberts ’25 has been commended by many coaches and teammates from both teams for his leadership and constant positivity. Dean of Ethical…

Junior Leadership on Boys Varsity Basketball Team

By JOHN COMITE '26 Associate Editor

Entering the 2024-2025 season, the Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team welcomed back only four players; nine of last year’s 13 players graduated in the class of 2024. However, Student Activities Coordinator…

Grappling with the Los Angeles Fires in Western Massachusetts

By LUCY LINNENBACH '27 & ZARA LI '27 Staff Writers

On January 1, 2024, a wildfire sparked in the Pacific Palisades, an affluent California neighborhood. Since then, the wildfire has spread rapidly across Los Angeles County, into Eaton and Hollywood…

Norovirus: What it is and What to do

By SOPHIA GAO '26 & KATIE KIM '27 Associate Editors

Since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, case numbers for infections like flu, Strep A, and RSV have escalated. In the midst of rising frequencies in diseases, norovirus was also one…

Inclusion Committee Revamps Deerfield’s 2025 MLK Day

By MELODY ZHAO '26 Associate Editor

On January 21, one day after the rest of the nation observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Deerfield community came together in a keynote address, question and answer session,…