Student Council Presents a Dance in Neon

by Kevin Agostinelli, staff reporter

On Friday, January 13, from 7 -10 p.m., mark your calenders to attend the Sturgis East Neon Dance, brought to you by the Sturgis East Student Council. 

This dance, which will be held at the Federated Church of Hyannis (320 Main St. Hyannis 02601), will feature a variety of hit music, neon decorations, and best of all, black lights!

Students are encouraged to wear casual white or other light-colored clothes to “glow” under the black lights.

The price is $7 at the church entrance on January 13, but students who buy their tickets early only have to pay $5. 

See student council members selling tickets at a booth during lunch to pay early.

For this dance, only Sturgis East students from grades 9-12 will be allowed to attend. Hope to see you there!

West Side Story: Or, Dear Sturgis West, You're Welcome!

By Anna Campbell, staff reporter

Graphic by Ted Jameson, staff pseudonym

Ever since the announcement that Sturgis Charter Public School was going to be a plural title, we have all waited anxiously to see what spawn could come out of our neighboring school now known as Sturgis West. It’s fitting - and natural - that our converted furniture store should produce another converted-furniture-store school. Busy Hyannis Main Street separates the original East from West. It is like Berlin during the Cold War minus the barbed wire, concrete walls, nasty checkpoints, and rhetoric about the East being greater than the West.

StormWatch reporters at East decided to go and investigate the new school, and so during advisory two weeks ago they ventured across to speak to those interested in creating a West newspaper. There were almost two dozen students. The students appeared bright and inquiring, even enthusiastic. They reminded us of... ourselves. So in personality as well as origin, East and West won’t be so far apart. Unlike the two Berlins in the 1960s.