Anyone that knows us knows we both LOVE Taylor Swift. So, naturally, when we found out Taylor was re-recording another album, we were ecstatic. For months, the two of us had been counting down the days until it was going to be released. We had high expectations, and the album far from disappointed us. With re-recordings of some of the album’s classics and vault tracks featuring new artists, there is a lot to enjoy about Red (Taylor’s Version).  In April of 2021, Taylor Swift re-released her hit 2008 album Fearless. She re-recorded each original...

Ms. Ortiz is our English and History teacher at Montrose, and she has kindly agreed to share some facts about her life. She was born on June 20th in Rockville, Maryland. She is the third child in a family of four, with two older brothers and one younger sister. In her lifetime, she has lived in many different places -- including South Bend, Indiana, and Phoenix, AZ -- before moving to New England.  While attending all-girls Oakcrest School in Virginia, her favorite subjects were English, Philosophy, Latin, and World History. Later, she went...

In case you missed the games this week due to the holidays (like I unfortunately did), here’s what went down:  Thanksgiving Football: This week, we got not only one game on Thursday, but we got three… one at 12:30, one at 4:30, and one at 8:20. These matchups were the Chicago Bears versus the Detroit Lions, the Las Vegas Raiders versus the Dallas Cowboys, and the Buffalo Bills versus the New Orleans Saints. The first of the three games ended on a game-winning field goal for the Bears, while the second was also decided by a field goal...