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Author: Ben Patton

  • Coronavirus

Dear COVID: Be true, even if it’s difficult

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on May 23, 2021May 27, 2021

“Dear COVID” is this year’s senior column series in which Hook seniors share their reflections…

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  • Coronavirus

Changing the American Mindset

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on April 20, 2021

For the majority of my life, one of the philosophies I lived by was “you…

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  • Translations

Mary Foster, Maestra de Riverside; es la Maestra del Año 2021

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

Traducido por Genesis Smith-Lopez La maestra de Inglés, Mary Foster no podía contener la felicidad. …

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  • Culture

Mary Foster is Riverside’s 2021 Teacher of the Year

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on March 9, 2021

English teacher Mary Foster couldn’t help but laugh.  On the one day she wasn’t wearing…

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  • Coronavirus

Masks and Double Masking: An Infographic

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on March 8, 2021March 9, 2021

An infographic by the Pirates’ Hook about masks usage and the new practice of double…

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  • Coronavirus

High schools not part of proposed return-to-school plan

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

DPS plans to present its ‘Plan B’ recommendation to the school board tonight regarding students…

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  • News

News Right Now 11/17

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on November 17, 2020November 17, 2020

What’s going on in the riverside community? Find out now with this quick look at current news.

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  • Culture

Riverside student uses Instagram for positive change

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on November 13, 2020

Social media can be a nasty place. But one Riverside student is using Instagram to foster a more polite environment.

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  • News

2020 Election Day Coverage, Updates

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on November 4, 2020December 10, 2020

This post starts with a prolonged infographic on what this election is and what it…

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  • Culture

New College Advisor Ready For Online Learning

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on September 29, 2020

Milan Hamilton, the career and college advisor for Riverside for the 2020-21 school year is…

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  • Coronavirus

#LifeWithout: A senior year

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on September 8, 2020September 10, 2020

Over the past few months, I’ve realized that I had been taking way too much…

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  • Coronavirus

#Coronabreak diaries: The Prevalence of Ignorance in America

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on April 21, 2020May 15, 2020

As I watch President Trump’s evening briefings, I hear a lot of nonsense about the…

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  • News

Hannah Swims All The Way to Guilford

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on March 12, 2020

Hannah Lambeth, a 17-year-old competitive swimmer, has been swimming since she was little, training day…

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  • Multimedia

Decision 2020 Podcast Episode 1: Super Tuesday

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on March 6, 2020September 10, 2020
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  • News

Amazon chooses DC, NYC over Triangle

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on January 9, 2019February 3, 2020

Every year, 5 billion packages are shipped worldwide by Amazon, and that number is growing…

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  • Opinion

Editorial: Amazon, Good or Bad?

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on January 8, 2019January 9, 2019

Amazon started out as a small book shipping company in Jeff Bezos’s apartment. Within five…

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  • News

A Family in Need

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on December 7, 2018February 3, 2020

On Tuesday, November 4th, the Riverside community raised over $5000 to help a family in…

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  • News

Former Riverside teacher returns with his new book

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on November 27, 2018February 3, 2020

Author Scott Reintgen came to Riverside on Tuesday, October 16 to talk with students about…

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  • News

DPS struggles with work order efficiency

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on October 11, 2018January 10, 2019

The Durham Public Schools (DPS) maintenance department has an efficiency problem. Several spots at Riverside…

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  • Sports

The Healing Bell

  • by Ben Patton
  • Posted on September 24, 2018

Anyone who has ever played a sport at Riverside knows athletic trainer Sarah Bell. For…

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Instagram

Hook students practiced their anchor voices, learned some Durham history and ate their first college dining hall meal today at @nccueagle
Born on the coast, Ana Kistler has lived all around North Carolina.
Opinion | Located in the heart of Durham, Northgate mall has always served as a social hub. But as developers plan to tear down the mall and build offices in its place, everyone has their own idea of how the property should be used. 
Opinion | In my health class last year, sex education mattered. Until it didn’t. “We’ll get to it next week,” our teacher would say. Eventually, that changed to “We’ll get to it.” We never got around it. My health teacher no longer teaches at Riverside. However, after researching North Carolina’s sex ed curriculum for an investigative project last semester, I learned that my class wasn’t the only one that didn’t meet the state’s standards. 
Koussaila Boumeridja has accomplished everything he has wanted to do.
Stein on Sports | Duke looks unrecognizable compared to just one month ago. 
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