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2025-2026 Staff

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Dane Alexander Peevy

Dane Peevy, is new to Connecticut, has traveled far and wide, but he's already made Hall High School a place to be and has much to report. Q: What is the first thing people get to know about you? A: My name.  It's short...

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Luca Demirağ

Luca Demirağ is a senior at Hall High School in West Hartford and is interested in writing about history, alternate history, and alternate futures. Q: Do you have a favorite writing memory, like a favorite piece of writing...

Caitlin Curran
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Caitlin Curran

Caitlin Curran is a senior at Hall High School who spends her free time in with friend along with doing her favorite hobbies cooking, baking,along with skiing. She is joining journalism to write about current events in her hometown...

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Matt LaBreck

Matt LaBreck is a Hall High School senior and a varsity athlete who is interested in writing about sports. Q: Who inspires you, or what inspires you? A; my grandpa inspires me. So he actually, he passed away in 2022, and...

Nathan Shreckengast
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Nathan Shreckengast

Nathan Shreckengast is a high school senior who is taking journalism this semester. His interests are computers, hanging out with friends, and running! Q: Do you enjoy journalism? A: I’m not completely sure yet. I chose...

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Casey Pyrro

Casey, a 17 year old outgoing lover of track and a senior at Hall High School, was looking for something to fill his schedule when he stumbled upon Journalism. Q: Okay, first question, why did you join this class?  A: I ...

Nevaeh Bellon
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Nevaeh Bellon

Nevaeh Bellon is a student from Hall HS and was interviewed on her thoughts about journalism. Q: Why did you decide to take journalism?  A: I enjoy talking to people and consider myself outgoing. Journalism felt like a c...

Jared Malkin
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Jared Malkin

Jared Malkin is a senior varsity athlete who plays football and lacrosse. He wants to learn more about journalism, news and write about topics like pop culture and sports.  Who’s your biggest influence in your life? W...

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Ayden Gordon

Ayden Gordon, a senior at Hall High School taking the Contemporary Journalism class, is a fan of football, fishing, and FPSes. Sports, specifically American football, are a big part of his life. Graduating in 2026, Ayden took ...

Matheus Oliveira Castro
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Matheus Oliveira Castro

B: Tell me a little bit about yourself, like what do you do for fun outside of school. M: Usually, I just go to a gym after school, and I hang out with my friends a lot over the weekend, yeah that's pretty much it. B: Why did...

Ben Tam
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Ben Tam

Ben Tam is a student from Hall High School who plays varsity football, varsity lacrosse and is involved in other activities. Ben is interested in learning more about journalism and thinks it will help him later in life Q: Ar...

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Shah Sheikh

Shah Sheikh, a senior at Hall High School, is looking forward to learning more about journalism and expanding his knowledge for his future endeavors. Q: Why did you take Journalism? A: I took journalism because I like looking at the ...

Karandip Singh
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Karandip Singh

Karandip Singh is a senior at Hall who grew up in India play Volleyball. He want to learn more about journalism, News and write about topic like  sports.  Q:  Why did you choose to take this class? I want to learn mo...

Matthew Bonner
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Matthew Bonner

Matt Bonner, a senior at Hall who grew up surrounded by journalism and involved in sports, looks forward to writing about his interests. Q:What do you like to do outside of school? A: Outside of school, I like to play a lot...

Ian Waddington
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Ian Waddington

Ian Waddington is a Hall High School senior taking Contemporary Journalism. Ian has an interest in the future of Bioengineering and hopes to pursue a career in the field. Ian is hoping to learn more about discerning real vs f...

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Claire Culmo

Claire Culmo is a motivated senior at Hall High School who is looking to make an impactful contribution to the Hall Record this semester.  Q: What made you take this class?  A: I would say expanding my knowledge on jour...

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Sadajah Miller

Sadajah Miller, a senior at Hall High School, was originally unsure of her path in Journalism, but now is determined to create original and impartial articles that captivate her audience.  Q: What is a topic or subject area that you ...

Kate Hockensmith
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Kate Hockensmith

Kate Hockensmith, a senior at Hall High School, is looking to report on impactful interests and issues for the HallRecord.   Q: What interests you the most about journalism? A: I think learning about current events is really ...

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Caleb Rainey

Caleb Rainey, a senior at Hall High School, is looking to report and tell athletic based stories and issues around the school. Q: What motivates you to write? A: I think my feelings…you know, my daily…life. Q: What is y...

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Yair Meir Noam Peck

 Yair Peck is a senior student at Hall High School who is taking Contemporary Journalism this semester. His interests include videos games and fiction books.  Q: What is your name and pronouns? A: My name is Yair, he/hi...

Julio Monge
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Julio Monge

Hall high school student. Who intertest in journalist. He hopes maybe he can make everyone agree more and friendly on controversial topics.

Miqueias Carlos Da Silva
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Miqueias Carlos Da Silva

Miqueias, a student at Hall High School, brings a deep love for soccer and a curiosity about journalism to the Hall Record. With a lifelong passion for the sport and a position as striker on Hall’s team, Miqueias hopes to channel...

Jack Sharlow
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Jack Sharlow

Jack Sharlow, A Senior at Hall High School, plans to use Hall Record to write about various topics, such as sports. He also enjoys watching, playing, and photographing sports, along with hanging out with friends. Q: What's your name? ...

Sivan Weber
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Sivan Weber

Sivan Weber is a senior at Hall who wants to pursue a career in something STEM-related, or psychology. During this semester in journalism, she wants to learn more about current events while teaching others to get involved.  Q:...

Lauren McCann
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Lauren McCann

Lauren McCann is a senior at Hall high school. She enjoys being at Hall and spending time with her friends. She wants to help others in school learn about what’s going on in the world around them. She would like to major in...

Hannah Fink
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Hannah Fink

Hannah Fink, a senior at Hall High School, is a competitive swimmer who is captain of the Hall swim team. She is also a member of Hall’s Choraliers and volunteers weekly at her religious school. ​  Q: Why did you decide ...

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Sam Lewis

Sam Lewis is a senior at Hall with a passion for skiing and physics. Q: Why are you taking Contemporary Journalism? A: I took a first semester writing elective so that I could take Creative Writing second semester, with o...

Dylan Lloyd: A Senior at Hall near the end of his first 100 meter race of his junior year outdoor track season.
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Dylan Lloyd

Dylan Lloyd, a current student and athlete at Hall High School, is ready to uncover the issues in the Hall community that go unnoticed. Q:What do you do in your free time? A: In my free time I normally listen to music or...

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Juan Garcia

Juan Garcia, A senior at Hall high school who is curious about everything that goes on inside our world, wants to research about what he finds interesting and let other people know about it. Q: What made you interested in joining journ...

Chloe Lynch
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Chloe Lynch

Chloe Lynch is a senior at Hall who enjoys playing sports, hanging out with friends, and wants to study nursing in college to pursue a career as a pediatric nurse.  Q: What do you like to do outside of school? A: I lik...

Schyler Holt
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Schyler Holt

Schyler Holt is inspired to become a journalist- even if it’s just for a semester. Q: Are you interested in pursuing a career in journalism? A: “Not necessarily, but I think it’s still important to learn about how to stay upd...

Sophie Fiskewold
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Sophie Fiskewold

Sophie Fiskewold, a senior at Hall High School, is determined to address the conversations that often go unspoken, by using the Hall Record to the best of her ability, in order to create a social change within the school. Q:...

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Ella Nemirow

Ella Nemirow is a Senior at Hall High School. She joined Journalism Class in hopes of improving her writing and interviewing skills, while staying informed about global issues. Q: Why did you take Journalism Class and what ...

Jin Chen
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Jin Chen

Jin is a senior journalist at Hall High School and wants to inform people of all the important things happening in the world. He cares and wants people to be informed. Jin is excited to be part of Hall records and can’t wai...

Cayden Kaufman
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Cayden Kaufman

Cayden Kaufman, a senior & student athlete at Hall, aspires to cover real world conflicts, and keep people updated on most recent conflicts involving war. Q: What do you look forward to writing about? A: One thing that...

Mason Puello, Senior at Hall highschool about to run a smr at Hillhouse
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Mason Puello

Mason Puello, A Senior at Hall High School, he plans to use Hall Record to write about various topics such as sports. He also enjoys watching and playing sports along with hanging out with friends. Q: What's your name?   ...

Ish Suleiman

Ish Suleiman

Ish sees journalism as a meaningful way to share information and stay connected with the world. He builds trust in journalism by using reliable, unbiased sources and researching topics in more depth than what is shown on headlines...

Diego Lemes

Diego Lemes

Diego Lemes current student and athlete of Hall High School,he is ready to use Hall Record  to write about a lot of things  such as sports.He also enjoying hanging out with his friends.Q:what is your name?Diego. Q:what is your...

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Kaua Jaques

Kaua Jaques is an 18-year-old senior at Hall High School who is eager to make the Hall Record.He cares a lot about his family and friends. He likes listening to Brazilian music and playing soccer.He really enjoys traveling and...

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Tagh Robertson

Tagh Robertson, a senior at Hall High and an avid news consumer, hopes to convey his opinions and beliefs using the platform of Hall Record this year to try and make a difference. Q:Why did you decide to take Journalism? A:Honestly,...

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Quinn O’Neill

Quinn is an aspiring electrical engineer who is going to be attending Bates College as a member of their Football team, with the hope to later own his own electrical company. Q: Why did you decide to take this course? A:...

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Tallulah Shrestha

Tallulah is looking forward to being a part of Hall Record because it will provide her an opportunity to broaden her understanding of current events and continue to develop her writing skills. Q: What extracurriculars do you participate ...