Benjamin Buchalter News Today

The Westport Public School system sent out an email to students and parents at Staples High School on May 22 correcting rumors alleging that a Staples student had posted an image of themselves brandishing a weapon. “While there was no imminent threat to our building,” Principal Stafford Thomas wrote, “we immediately alerted the police and...

In a small neighborhood just past the train station, a war has been raging. For the past two decades, the belligerents – Summit Development Group and the Save Old Saugatuck movement – have been fighting tooth and nail for the land rights to the Old Saugatuck neighborhood. Last month, the Save Old Saugatuck movement scored...

It’s that time of year again. As you walk the halls of Staples High School, you can almost smell the anxiety wafting through the halls, drifting from room to room; the terrified anticipation is so thick in the air that you could cut it with a knife. Like a virus, the worries spread. The terrors...

“Great, another Inklings article about vaping,” you say, barely skimming through before moving on to the next story about a new album from a pop artist. Yet despite the messaging that vaping is an omnipresent threat to students at Staples High School, according to Assistant Principal Patrick Micinilio, most students do not vape. Several challenges...

Everybody loves a day off from school. Whether it’s a week-long vacation away from school or a Monday off, waking up and not having to go to school is probably one of the best feelings in the world. A feeling of complete and total freedom to do anything you want to do during the day,...