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2022-2023 Staff

Cynthia Mancino

Cynthia Mancino

Cynthia (she/her) is a freshman at NFA. Her hobbies include writing, drawing, and reading. She decided to take journalism to further her knowledge in writing and English!

Costa Kapilotis
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Costa Kapilotis

Costa Kapilotis is a 12th-grader who is a part of the NFA football and golf team. He is a first year Journalism student. He is also the Vice President for the class of 2023.

Roberta Moser
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Roberta Moser

Roberta Moser is 13 years old, and uses they/them pronouns. They started Journalism just this year because of their interest in writing. They love to read, mostly fiction but they also like history. With their interest in writing ...

Merren Ballester
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Merren Ballester

Merren Ballester is a freshman at NFA, who comes from the town of Preston. She enjoys outdoor activities, shopping, and wearing jewelry. Merren is a part of the NFA Jazz Pom team. She joined journalism to improve her writing skills. ...

Paulina Grzelczak
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Paulina Grzelczak

Paulina Grzelczak is a sophomore at Norwich Free Academy. She joined journalism to be more involved in her community, and to become a better writer. Among other things like painting, playing volleyball and going on hikes with her dog...

Marcelo Raposo
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Marcelo Raposo

Marcelo Raposo is a ninth-grade student at NFA, who comes from Lisbon.  He likes to participate in many outdoor activities like soccer, fishing, and hiking.  This year he is on the freshman soccer team.  He is excited to learn ...

Carissa Mercik
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Carissa Mercik

Carissa Mercik is a freshman at Norwich Free Academy. She plays a variety of sports including; volleyball, soccer, basketball, and softball. Carissa listens to all kinds of music but favors rock, metal and pop-rock, and is teac...

Lois Pendergrass
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Lois Pendergrass

Lois is a 9th-grader at NFA. In her free time she likes to read, go thrifting, and listen to Lana del Rey on repeat. She joined Journalism to try and grow her communication skills and for her interest in writing....

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Cieka Wu

Cieka Wu is a freshman at Norwich Free Academy. Her interests are playing badminton, reading, traveling, drawing, and watching dramas. One of her favorite authors is Mo Xiang Tong Xiu from Seven Seas Entertainment. She's plann...

Ethan Heinsz
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Ethan Heinsz

Ethan Heinsz is in 12th grade, and is a member of the NFA baseball team. Ethan is in his first year being a part of the NFA Journalism program. Ethan loves to attend Major League Baseball games and has plans to visit every ba...

Noah Hastings
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Noah Hastings

Noah Hastings is a freshman at Norwich Free Academy, and he lives in Bozrah. He enjoys walking outside, history, and listening to music. He joined the Journalism class to see what important events happen around the NFA campus. H...

Olivia Howard
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Olivia Howard

Olivia Howard is a freshman at NFA, and this is her first year taking Journalism. Olivia enjoys baking and listening to music. She is outgoing and always willing to help others. She also hopes to do cheerleading in her sophomor...

Taegan Calouro
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Taegan Calouro

Taegan Calouro is in the tenth grade at NFA. He plays football and weightlifts. This is his first year of Journalism and he is very excited to start this class. Taegan is from Canterbury, and he likes to be outdoors....

Cobain Jones
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Cobain Jones

Cobain Jones has been dreaming of coming to NFA since he was in the second grade, and is excited to be at the school as a member of the Freshman Class. Even before he started coming to NFA, he was super involved in the Norwich c...

Wyatt Woodcock
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Wyatt Woodcock

Wyatt is a tenth-grader at NFA. He plays football and lacrosse, and he is in the NFA ski club. It is Wyatt's first year in Journalism. He has joined the NFA Journalism program to expand his world views and experience new things...

Grace Tisoskey
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Grace Tisoskey

Grace Tisoskey is a freshman at Norwich Free Academy. She joined journalism class to learn more about the campus and help improve her writing skills. She is a member of the NFA varsity cheer team. ...

Brenden Swain
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Brenden Swain

Brenden likes basketball and heavy music and he writes articles for the school news. He is a junior at NFA. He has two dogs: a corgi and a black lab mix. He doesn’t often write in his free time but he like writing things that...

Jayla Davis
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Jayla Davis

Jayla Davis is in the 10th grade at Norwich Free Academy. She is part of the Varsity N club, and competes on the NFA gymnastics team. This is her second year in Journalism, and she enjoys talking to new people and getting invol...

Shane Baran
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Shane Baran

Shane Eli Baran is a 12th grader who has been in video production and journalism for all 4 years of his NFA career. He is a member of the football, indoor and outdoor track teams, and is Senior class president. He is very out...

Madeline Crosby
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Madeline Crosby

Madeline Crosby is a 9th grade student who joined Journalism because of her love for writing and research. She is a competitive skater that lived in Hawaii for 5 years and leads by "Aloha."

Aislinn Richmond
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Aislinn Richmond

Aislinn Richmond is in the 12th grade at Norwich Free Academy. She is captain of the girls basketball team, and unified soccer. She joined Journalism class because she is interested in furthering her knowledge about English and...

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