By Julian Silva-Forbes Movies did not escape 2020’s weirdness. Coronavirus pushed franchise films like James Bond: No Time to Die, Black Widow, and Top Gun: Maverick into 2021, and we watched the year’s best movies from our phones and laptops. Yet, in the middle of this weirdness, fantastic films were released on various platforms and services. With the arrival of the new […]
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Editor’s note: A spread created by journalism students for class credit about the boys’ tennis team previously posted here included quotes which were marked as being from Coach Tim O’Brien. These quotes were fabricated. The Lightning Rod regrets publishing these quotes and both we and the reporters responsible apologize to Coach O’Brien and the team.
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February 27, 2014 Story and photos by Eli Fisher It should have been a close game. Just a few days before Tuesday’s Section 2 hockey final matchup between Saratoga and Shenendehowa at Union College, the teams were ranked #6 and #7, respectively, in the New York State Sportswriters Association statewide rankings. It was a game
February 12, 2014 by Justin Penman and Eli Fisher In a penalty-filled game Thursday night, Saratoga took down Shen 5-1, with the teams receiving seven and five 90-second penalties, respectively. The game drew a huge crowd for Saratoga for the White Out Weibel rivalry matchup. After a shaky start to the season, Saratoga finally entered
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February 4, 2014 by Justin Penman and Eli Fisher As the Blue Streaks boys basketball team was across town beginning a game they would ultimately lose to Shaker, the hockey team was on their way to their second win in a row, against Queensbury by a 6-1 margin, on Friday night. The weekend before that,
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January 5, 2014 by Justin Penman and Eli Fisher Photos by Eli Fisher The announcer at Friday’s hockey game noted that the temperature outside would reach minus 20 F that night, while the temperature inside was “a balmy 25.” The atmosphere in the Glens Falls Recreation Center rink seemed warmer still, with a tense game
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December 28, 2013 Story and photos by Eli Fisher Saratoga’s varsity ice hockey team suffered a 3-0 loss to Pittsford on Friday, by a larger margin than last year’s state-champion team, who lost to Pittsford 5-4. However, they did better Saturday with a 3-2 win against Williamsville North. The Blue Streaks’ defense was hit-or-miss. While
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December 26, 2013 by Justin Penman and Eli Fisher Photos by Eli Fisher Saratoga hockey dominated the Shaker/Colonie team in a 6-0 win last Friday night, followed by a 5-3 defeat of Rome Free Academy on Saturday. After a heated game versus Shenendehowa Wednesday that resulted in a tie the boys needed a win Friday.
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January 1, 2013 by Eli Fisher Photos by Adam Monroe and Eli Fisher with additional staff reports Saratoga’s state-championship-defending ice hockey team played their first two home games of the season this weekend at the Don Kauth Memorial Tournament, losing the first on Friday to Mamaroneck by a 4-3 margin and winning Saturday’s game against
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May 10, 2023 by Maggie Trautner (‘25) On the night of April 15, twenty-year-old Kaylin Gillis was shot and killed after driving up the wrong driveway. Her car contained three other people, one of whom was Gillis’ boyfriend, Blake Walsh (19), and was accompanied by a second car and a motorcycle. Around 10 p.m., Gillis
