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Deerfield Debate Team Sweeps in Bermuda

By SOPHIA GAO '26 Associate Editor

Three Deerfield students returned on October 21, 2024, after competing at the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Competition at Bermuda High School and Saltus Grammar School. Edie Huffard ’25, Billy…

Preserving the Past: A Look Into the Lake Forest-Bluff Historical Center

By Kayle Moore, Director of Collaborations and Editing and Managing Editor of Global

Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Center has stapled the two towns together since 1972. Historically called the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society, in 1998 the society relocated to its first museum…

Karen Russell Visits Lake Forest Academy

By Sophia DeLise, Director of Social Media

Lake Forest Academy recently had the honor of hosting Karen Russell in the Cressey Center for the Arts on September 26. Russell is an American novelist and short story writer.…

2024 LFA Family Weekend Recap

By Charley Gopin, Riley Mormon, and Parker Pollak

Once a year, Lake Forest Academy hosts Family Weekend, previously known as Parents Weekend. Activities like a class coffee, Parents Association Welcome Luncheon, BIPOC family gathering, and brand new Bell…

Revels explained

By Anna Hoyle

Revels is a play that the junior class puts on for the rest of the school every year on the last day of school before Winter Break. It is set…

Student Athletes at Thacher

By The Thacher Notes

By Charlie Clarke ’27 “Ok, I think I get it now! Thanks ____ , see you later.”. Run up to the dorm, get changed for your afternoon activity. Don’t get…

What the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Means for Survivors of Rape

By The Thacher Notes

By Sienna Karlen ’27 In the 2024 election, a major consideration for voters from both political parties was women’s reproductive rights: abortion rights, care following a miscarriage, and infertility treatment…