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Kestrel Super Bowl Squares Contest 2024

By Sean O'Sullivan, Chief Editor February 2, 2024

The Kestrel is sponsoring its second annual FREE Super Bowl Score Square Contest.  A winner will be determined at the end of each quarter of the Super Bowl. The winner is decided by looking at the last...

Our Fall Sports Season

Our Fall Sports Season

By Austin Carter, Assistant Reporter January 9, 2024

Our Xavier sports teams this fall included football, soccer, cross country, and sailing. There is always excitement for fall sports as they are the first after summer break. All of this enthusiasm to be...

Why the Black and White Falcon?

Why the Black and White Falcon?

By Cormac Burke, Reporter January 3, 2024

From its very conception, the identity of Xavier High School as a Xaverian Brothers Sponsored School in the heart of Connecticut has been synonymous with the school’s mascot:  the soaring, black and...

President Misenti Poses for a picture alongside a portrait of Saint Francis Xavier after being promoted to full-time president from his previous position as interim.

President Misenti: Our First Impressions

By John Wamester, Assistant Reporter November 7, 2023

Turnover of both headmaster and principal positions within a high school can be a nebulous and even outright scary situation for the student body, faculty, staff, and other positions of leadership. Xavier...

The Most of Four Years

The Most of Four Years

By Justin Caulfield, Chief Copy Editor May 9, 2023

With my four years at Xavier coming to an end, I look back and reflect on my time here. There have been many obstacles that have made life difficult, but Xavier was always a place for me to develop my...

Socially Distant: A COVID Retrospective

Socially Distant: A COVID Retrospective

By Justin Caulfield, Chief Copy Editor April 19, 2023

It’s no secret that the global pandemic has left a scar on people everywhere. Xavier took sufficient precaution to ensure the safety of its students and faculty, but there were some downsides that could...

SAT Optional. How it Effects You.

SAT Optional. How it Effects You.

By Simon Cordes, Assistant Reporter April 6, 2023

Starting in 2018, the highly competitive University of Chicago announced its Empower Initiative: a test-optional admissions process. Not long after, and with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many other...

The Kestrel March Madness Bracket Challenge

The Kestrel March Madness Bracket Challenge

By Sean O'Sullivan, Assistant Reporter March 12, 2023

On Sunday, March 12, millions of people in the United States started looking into and filling out their 2023 NCAA March Madness Brackets. March Madness is a three-week long College Basketball tournament...

Kestrel Super Bowl Squares Contest

Kestrel Super Bowl Squares Contest

By Sean O'Sullivan February 3, 2023

The Kestrel is sponsoring a FREE Super Bowl Score Square Contest.  A winner will be determined at the end of each quarter of the Super Bowl. The winner is decided by looking at the last number in each...

The Catholic Message of Xavier

The Catholic Message of Xavier

By Justin Caulfield, Chief Copy Editor November 16, 2022

From the creation of man and woman to the resurrection, the Catholic faith is full of history. Exodus, the covenant made with Abraham, the rule of King David, the birth of Christ, and the Last Supper might...

The Students Perspective: Was Linos at Xavier Over-Hyped?

The Students Perspective: Was Lino’s at Xavier Over-Hyped?

By Max Quan, Assistant Reporter October 25, 2022

Along with the promise of the alleged meat grinder, the students of Xavier High School were met with huge changes for the 2022-2023 school year. The school's cafeteria fell under new management: Lino's....

Xavier High School in Middletown

School Start Time

By Jason Barber, Assistant Reporter October 25, 2022

Schools across California are now starting later in the day, would you like to start later in the day? On July 1st, 2022, a law was put in place across California schools which sets the start of school...

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