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Girls lacrosse plays Redwood in special game dedicated to the One Love Foundation, an organization raising awareness around relationship abuse.

Girls lacrosse dedicates game to One Love Foundation

By Gigi Hohenrieder April 2, 2025
The girls varsity lacrosse team dedicated their MCAL game against Redwood to the One Love Foundation.

Healthy Choices Day features talk on pornography, the brain 

By Vera Woo April 2, 2025

Branson hosted a speaker from the non-profit organization Fight the New Drug on March 12 to raise awareness about pornography.  Elizabeth Eckman gave the presentation, which helped inform students...

March Madness brackets inspire school spirit

By Charlotte “Charley” Goldstein April 2, 2025

March 20 marked the beginning of the annual event that captures the utmost interest for both students and teachers: the March Madness bracket at Branson.  Every year, a Branson student sends out an...

Christopher Mao ‘26, Zachary Redlin ‘25, Theo Zak ‘25, Spencer Weinberg
‘26 and Remy DeJean ‘26 in SABR analytics competition. (Photo courtesy of Remy DeJean.)

Branson wins SABR contest for first time

By Ashley Wang April 2, 2025

The weekend of March 14, Branson participated in the Diamond Dollars Case Competition at the 2025 SABR Analytics Conference. The team, led by Spencer Weinberg ‘26 and Theo Zak ‘25, took home a win...

Mandarin students walk with Chinese dragon puppet during Lunar New Year performance.

Branson celebrates Lunar New Year

By Riley Gu February 14, 2025
Lion dancing, dragon dancing and a panda were crowd-pleasers at the annual Lunar New Year assembly performance, put on by all of the Mandarin classes.

Branson community feels the energy at Gospel Night

By Ella Rubenstein February 14, 2025

On Thursday night, Feb. 13, Gospel Night was hosted, for the first time ever, at an off-campus venue, Dominican University in San Rafael. For the past three years, the Branson community has overflowed...

Technical Theater Director DiAnn Montemayor gets lunch from the
Commons.

Branson partners with new food service

By Skylar Lariviere February 14, 2025

As Branson students returned from winter break in January, it didn’t only mark a new year; it also meant a new food service. The Branson community officially transitioned to Thomas Cuisine as their...

Class of ’26 junior fellowships announced

By Isabel Little February 14, 2025

During assembly on Monday, Jan. 27, the junior fellowship recipients of the Class of 2026 were announced. After an extensive and thorough review process of anonymous applications and in-person interviews,...

Branson students in the Commons hear from special guest speaker Melba Beals. Beals was a member of the Little Rock Nine and joined Branson for Beloved Community day to share her incredible experiences.

Little Rock Nine’s Melba Beals visits on Beloved Community day

By Olivia Ritter February 1, 2025
Melba Beals joined Branson Jan. 16 for Beloved Community day to share her experiences racially integrating her high school and the violence she faced.

Students lead conferences, reflect on first-semester growth

By Cecelia Sharp February 1, 2025

On Jan. 21, Branson students led conferences with their mentors, advisers and guardians. Extending the already three-day weekend with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the student conferences occurred during...

The Branson Singers carol during the Winter Arts Festival.

Community gathers for Winter Arts Festival

By Samara “Sam” Lehman December 19, 2024
The Branson community gathered on Dec. 9 for the beloved annual Tree Lighting and Winter Arts Festival. 
Commons cleanup advocate Jeff Symonds calls out students who fail to clean up during lunch. Symonds and other faculty have taken turns sitting in the newly implemented lifeguard chair to supervise the commons at lunch.

Commons’ uncleanliness takes dessert and threatens wing day

By Cecilia “CC” Brenner December 19, 2024

Described as “the hill I’m gonna die on,” “one of the biggest bees in my bonnet” and “my albatross” by Branson faculty, commons cleanliness is a topic of strong tension between students and...

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