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If you are an off campus ROP student and have not yet visited Mrs. Hart in the Career Center to get your pink flyer and orientation, please do so before leaving Logan’s campus to go to Fremont ROP.

Job Alert! School year work permits now available in the Career Center’s Colt
Necessities and House offices. Summer work permits are good until September 20th. Time to get a new one now!

Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college faires, community
service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College & Career Info Bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.

By Arthel Cargill, Courier Staff Writer

Melissa Kantor brings to light the struggles of growing up and finding true love in If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?, whimsical, but realistic, story of love. High school sophomore Lucy Norton is dragged to Long Island when her father marries interior designer extraordinaire Mara Gilman.

Along with a controlling new mother, Lucy welcomes two bratty twin stepsisters into her life. As if this is not enough, Lucy is invisible at school and at home, only finding comfort when she is painting. Her life is turned upside down when Connor Pearson, a senior and the captain of the basketball team, asks her to be his girlfriend after overhearing her knowledgeable comments on basketball, which is one of her main passions.

Her newfound social acceptance, spurred by her big-man-on-campus boyfriend, leads Lucy into the whirl of high school activities such as the prom, wild parties and kissing.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night welcomed its two student representatives for the 2011-12 school year, Lily Nguyen of James Logan High School and Victor Benites of Conley-Caraballo High.

The Board also recognized and thanked the New Haven Schools Foundation, the New Haven Boosters Association and a parents’ group known as TFIN (Their Future Is Now) for their contributions to the District.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

There is much talk about, and invoking of, the U.S. Constitution these days. But how was it really built? Who were the men who signed it? What was really important to them in that steamy summer of 1787 in Philadelphia where they gathered to debate a new Constitution?

In "Signing their Rights Away," Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese introduce you to the men behind the Constitution Convention and the pressures they faced, both political and personal. It also clearly illustrates the compromises that led to shaping of the document.

In the introduction, the authors lay the scene. The War of Independence is over and the Articles of Confederation weren't doing the job of holding the new country together. So the word went out for a revision.

From wikipedia:
Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry."

Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, into a socially prominent family. Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania. Her aunt was Helen Hoyt, a minor poet. Her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr., who would be United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909; and Anne Morton McMichael (born July 31, 1861 in Pa.).

Read Nets to Catch the Wind by Elinor Wylie, free from Project Gutenberg.