Town Supervisor responds to swatting: “an expensive joke that wasn’t funny”
Annie Rubinson, News Lead Editor
May 21, 2020
A Greenburgh Town board meeting was interrupted Tuesday when Town Supervisor Paul Feiner received an email from The Journal News. Police officers had assembled to respond to a shooter threat, and people were scared, they said. An hour later, after the residents of the home in question were safely ex...
Class meeting intruder leaves community shaken, administration responds
May 20, 2020
Sophomore Class MISH elections Google Meet, May 19––A 10th grade class meeting was suddenly interrupted when a private caller entered the meeting and began shouting expletives and racial slurs to a stunned group of students, faculty and advisors. The meeting began with brief remarks from class presi...
SWAT investigation in Dobbs Ferry deemed a potential ‘swatting’ incident, investigation remains open
Annie Rubinson and Sophia Van Beek
May 19, 2020
Helicopters circled the streets of Dobbs Ferry earlier this evening as masked passersby crowded the corner of Washington Ave. and Ashford Ave. A person had allegedly been barricaded inside a home, a police chief told town supervisor Paul Feiner. Ambulances and police cars were parked several blocks from the h...
Brock employees receive support from Paycheck Protection Program
Logan Schiciano, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
May 10, 2020
Over 50 days since The Masters School closed on March 9, the Masters dining hall staff received their first paychecks from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) on Friday, May 1. General Manager Lee Bergelson was notified April 19 that Brock and Company, Inc., the school’s dining services company,...
Distance learning alters international students’ schedules
Owen Strier and Gabe Keller, Features Editor and Sports Editor
May 5, 2020
With the recent events surrounding COVID-19, the closure of Masters and the dorms, many of the international students are facing challenges with the online schooling that has been put into place. Most of the problems that they’re noticing are revolving around great time differences and sleep schedules...
Worth more lives, now, lives worth more
Andrew Mitchell, Contributing Writer
May 5, 2020
100 years ago, soldiers were marched into battle as pawns, in a greater international chess game. Human lives were deemed expendable, with the greater goal of victory dictating the death count. Almost 20 million soldiers in WWI, and over 50 million soldiers in WW2, were classified as casualties; they were a si...
Tower releases Issue 6
May 1, 2020
Volume 76, Issue 6 of Tower was launched digitally on May 1, 2010. All the stories published with this issue, and throughout the month of April can be accessed here. Enjoy reading. Be sure to follow us on our social media! @masterstower on Instagram, @MastersTower on Twitter, and @MastersTower on Facebook. News: Video: States begin to reopen as...
Video: States begin to reopen as coronavirus battle continues
Logan Schiciano, Editor-in-Chief
May 1, 2020
May 1 marks the beginning of a new chapter in the United State’s battle against the coronavirus. The Trump administration's “slow-the-spread” guidelines expired on April 30 and now, the responsibility of reopening belongs in the hands of individual state governors. New York Governor Andrew C...
Danforth, Chiodo coordinate PPE donations to support frontline workers
Mitch Fink, Sports Lead Editor
May 1, 2020
The Masters School has taken a proactive role in supporting front line healthcare workers to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. The school sent 198 goggles, 48 boxes of gloves, five containers of cleaning wipes and 40 nasal swabs to two New York City hospitals on March 25 and March 31. 3D printed pro...
COVID complications cause EPA rollbacks
Sophia Van Beek, Copy-Editor
May 1, 2020
During the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put a pause on environmental laws’ enforcement, allowing companies to pollute the air or water without having to pay sanctions. The current EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler noted that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, i...
U.S. Gun sales spike amid pandemic
Sophie Grand, Opinion Editor
May 1, 2020
In the month of March alone – following the domestic emergence of the novel coronavirus – gun sales in the United States skyrocketed as Americans purchased almost two million weapons, according to released FBI statistics. Federal data indicated a 41 percent surge in the number of National Instant...
Meet the co-chair candidates: Sophia Viscarello
Annie Rubinson, News Lead Editor
April 28, 2020
Photographer and fencer Sophia Viscarello said her ideas about next year focus around the themes of connection, communication and openness. “‘The wisdom is really in the room,’ is a quote my mom always says,” she said. “If you’re able to listen to what people have to say, you can acco...