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This week, these are the loved ones remembered in the funeral notices and family announcements in The Sentinel.
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Jamie Ducharme
(Holt)
When Ducharmeâs 2019 Time article on Juul came out, it was pretty tough to walk around New York without seeing the vape device. I was excited when I found out that article was to grow into a book, and the story Ducharme offers is a bizarre, somewhat frightening page-turner (and is set to become a docuseries, to boot). âCarliann Rittman, reviews editor
The Atmospherians
(Atria)
A woman named Sasha Marcus is harassed and canceled by menâs rights activists after speaking her mind in response to an internet troll in McElroyâs engrossing novel. Sasha then accepts a new gig helping her failed actor friend start a cult designed for men to purge themselves of toxic masculinity. McElroyâs conceit works on multiple levels, with incisive satire, earnest explorations of male identity, and a gripping plot.
Competitors from the McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School Speech and Debate teams recently represented their schools at several online competitions, with all participating students winning awards.
Galen Sieck received first place in the category of Lincoln-Douglas Debate on the topic of compulsory voting at a virtual tournament in Missouri, and was a finalist in an online competition in Indiana last weekend.
While Sieck competed virtually in Indiana, YSHS team members Delia Hallet and Joaquin Espinosa took second and third places, respectively, for original speeches at the online Centerville TournaShop. McKinney students Payton Horton, Leilani Egea-Kaleda, Zach Underwood and Evie Thomas were awarded first, third, fourth and fifth places, respectively, in their competition.
“I would like to tell you I had a plan I really would,” she said.
All things being equal, if Sparrow-Knapp could have had it her way, she would have picked up where she and the performing arts program had left off last school year: “The Fair Maid of the West” was in production when the pandemic shut everything down. Though much of the principal cast of that show has graduated, Sparrow-Knapp said she had cast some younger students as understudies who could have stepped into the main roles.
“I even thought about bringing back some of the kids who’d graduated,” she said.