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Bread and Butter, the Lucky Birds
January 9, 2020
Emma Dubynskiy and Abbie Gula, Author
In this past year, many amazing things have happened, even for these two birds. Thanksgiving came around, and these two birds managed to be the lucky couple of the year. Bread and Butter are two white domesticated turkeys, that got saved from their nightmare... the chopping block. President...
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Greta Thunberg
January 9, 2020
Izzy Borrero and Maddison LaRiccia
Greta Thunberg, just 16 years old, is a youth Swedish climate activist who has been given worldwide recognition for her efforts to fight for climate changes. She was offered to be brought to the United States to head to New York City to attend a United Nations climate-change summit there last September....
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Weirdest Places On Earth
January 9, 2020
Abe Schoenfeldt, Author
Have you been searching for the perfect place to take strange photos or see the world? Well, if so, I’ve collected four of possibly the strangest places to be, starting with the hottest place on Earth Dallol, Ethiopia The hottest place on earth, Dallol, is in Ethiopia and has an elevation of 130...
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Student Articles
Movies of 2020 Part 1
January 9, 2020
Summer ‘it’s the season for blockbuster movies. A few of the movies are listed below. Bad Boys For Life One major movie that will be released in 2020 is Bad Boys for Life. This movie stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Mike (Will Smith) and Marcus (Martin Lawrence) go on one last ride. The...
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Tardigrades on the Moon
January 9, 2020
Ella Vandenberg and Lexie Radtke
Tardigrades on the moon. Ever heard of that? Lots of Tardigrades had crashed on the moon when they had boarded an Israeli spacecraft in April. The reason this is interesting is because these creatures are extremophiles. The creatures can survive in extremely low temperatures and face some of the hardest...
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Sights of the Season
December 18, 2019

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Deserted Island
November 18, 2019
The Lancer Messenger staff sent out emails to as many teachers as we could to find out, what specific items would they want with them on a deserted island? We asked them what favorite music artists, books, and movies they would like to be stuck with Here are their answers. Dr. Brown Book: I’d...
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John’s Wildwood Pizzeria
November 14, 2019
Johnathan Kavelish, Author
John’s Wildwood Pizzeria! Without the mouth watering, juicy, deliciousness of John’s Wildwoods Pizza, Edinboro residents are left helpless. For 40 years John’s has been serving their amazing tasting pizza and wings. Now with the recent tragedy (John’s had a fire) has left Edinboro residents...
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January 19, 2020

National Popcorn Day is celebrated on 1/19. The way to celebrate this day is by enjoying a bag of popcorn. You can also celebrate it by doing crafts with popcorn. Many people thought that popcorn needed to be recognized.

1/18 National Winnie The Pooh Day

Charlie Salvo, Author | January 18, 2020

News

Should Students Wear Uniforms?

Gus Brasington and Daniel Sychuk

January 13, 2020 • No Comments

There are many pros and cons to wearing uniforms to school and it is a common thing in some schools. Wearing uniforms is a very controversial subject with many different opinions, but most commonly schools don’t have uniforms....

Australia Wildfire

Johnathan Kavelish, Author

January 7, 2020 • No Comments

In late July a dreadful fire whipped through Australia. Six months later, the disaster still moves on. This fire is the worst fire seen in decades. In New South Wales 900 houses are scorched and 18 are left dead, along...

President Trumps Impeachment

Jackson, Author

January 7, 2020 • No Comments

TheThe US House of Representatives have voted that president Donald Trump should be impeached. Impeachment means to charge the president of the United States with a crime. He still has to be trialed to be guilty or innocent....

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Sports

2020 NFL Playoffs- Info/ Predictions

Charlie Salvo and Carter Sindlinger

January 9, 2020 • No Comments

As we know, the 2020 NFL playoffs are about to start. Many people think it will be a face-off between the Ravens and the 49ers. The AFC teams are: 1.Ravens, 2.Chiefs, 3.Patriots, 4.Texans, 5.Bills, 6.Titans. The NFC teams...

NFL Playoff picture December 10, 2019

October 4, 2019

Lancers vs Jets October 2, 2019

Edinboro Lancers Highlights 2018 October 17, 2018

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Debates

Should Lancer Messenger Be All Year Long

Maddison LaRiccia, Author

December 3, 2019 • No Comments

Should Lancer Messenger be all year long? I think it should. Lancer Messenger is fun and a good way to share ideas. Put your option in the comments below.

Winter

November 18, 2019

Debate On taking our iPads home

November 18, 2019

Free time during school (Recess)😂

March 15, 2019

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Interviews

If you had the chance to visit anywhere in the world where would you go?

Jackson, Author

January 16, 2020 • No Comments

Johnathan Kavelish said that he would go to Florida because it is warm all of the time. Jared Corwin said that he would go to Russia because he likes Russians Landon...

Abe’s 5 simple questions!

Abe Schoenfeldt, Author

January 14, 2020 • No Comments

Tucker Bryson 6th grade...🍳 History or Math? Math, because it’s fun!🧮 Summer or winter? Summer, Because there is no school and he likes the weather🌤 Mechanical...

Who would YOU take to the MOON?

January 9, 2020

Five Quick Questions

January 7, 2020

If you had one extra plane ticket to Los Angeles, which teacher would you bring with you?

January 2, 2020

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Reviews

Snapchat Review

Izzy Borrero, Author

December 13, 2019 • No Comments

Snapchat is a popular Social Media App. Its used as a multi-media texting app that you can send pictures or videos to other people you may have friended, or post them on your public or private story....

Propel Review

December 10, 2019

Review of Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)

December 6, 2019

Yeezy 350 review

December 3, 2019

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Projects

5th Grade Boat Projects

February 13, 2019 • No Comments

How many of you remember doing the boat projects with Mrs. Santos or Mr. Sturgess when he taught fifth grade? I remember this being one of my favorite projects. I put in...

Garage Band Spooky Stories

October 30, 2017

Sights of Fall at JWPMS

October 10, 2017

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Polls Archive

School Events

September Students of the Month

October 29, 2019 • No Comments

September’s students of the month as voted by the staff are the following students: Brenden O’Connor Katie Quinn Charlie Salvo Andrew Kennedy Sarah...

October 4, 2019

Final Parker PRIDE drawing

June 3, 2019

Parker PRIDE Winners week #31

May 3, 2019

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Video of the Week

Video of the week

Delaney Brunner, Author

December 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

Videos of the week

November 25, 2019

Video of the Week 11/11/2019

November 11, 2019

Video of the week

November 4, 2019

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Student Articles

January 10th – National Save the Eagles Day

Ella Vandenberg, Author

January 10, 2020 • No Comments

5 quick questions!

January 10, 2020

Five Quick Questions

January 7, 2020

January 6th – National Technology Day

January 6, 2020

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Strange and Interesting Holidays

National Popcorn Day

January 19, 2020

1/18 National Winnie The Pooh Day

Charlie Salvo, Author | January 18, 2020

National Nothing Day

Maddison LaRiccia, Author | January 16, 2020

January 16th is the celebration of National Nothing Day. It gives people the chance to sit and do nothing. This holiday doesn’t honor anything. This became a holiday in 1973.

January 14th, Dress up Your Pet Day

Ella Vandenberg, Author | January 14, 2020

National Sticker Day

Lexie Radtke, Author | January 13, 2020

National Sticker Day occurs on January 13, 2020!

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Staff Profile

Liam Webber

Author

This is Liam’s first year in the Lancer Messenger. He REALLY likes to fish. He is very good at it. He also swims competitively. He is very good at swimming, too. He has made it to Districts two...

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Charlie Salvo

Author

This is Charlie, it is his first year in Lancer Messenger. He like to play baseball and basketball, and run cross country and snowboard. Also, he loves to play sports with his brother, and play on his...

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Mr. Sturgess

Editor / Student Advisor

This is Mr. Sturgess’ fourth year in charge of the Lancer Messenger. In his spare time he also coaches basketball and softball, plays golf, and enjoys outside activities like hiking with his children....

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Kyle McConnell

Author

This is Kyle’s first year with the Lancer Messenger. He plays sports such as football, baseball, and wrestling and likes play video games, making jokes, and the outdoors. He can’t swim and as a huge...

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