The HPCMS Chronicle

By Lily Pichardo It was a boring Saturday morning. Everybody in Cane was fast asleep. All except for one - Jason Noris Vesper. He was wide awake, staring at the blank ceiling above him, wondering. Jason was an interesting boy; he was filthy rich and cared for his appearance, yet had few friends. He wasn’t your stereotypical rich kid. He was quiet and kept to himself. He always had something to say, just never spoke it. Old habits he supposed. At this point, he was tired of thinking. He lazily slid out of his bed and slinked downstairs. He stopped for a second, taking in the darkness as he succumbed to it. He started towards the kitchen again, making sure his steps were quiet. Quickly and quietly he opened the first jar he saw and took a handful of what he presumed to be cookies. Quietly he slinked back upstairs, ate his cookies, and went to sleep. “So strange,” his Parents thought. “Always so quiet,” his teachers said. “He’s incredibly intelligent,” said Iolite, one of his fe

By Laura Ciuca  March 5, 2019 This picture was received from Max Pixel .  The Sumatran tiger is an amazing animal and it deserves to live on. The Sumatran tiger is critically endangered. There are only about four-hundred in the wild right now! This tiger is well known because of of their big black stripes on their orange fur. They are also the smallest tiger subspecies. This tiger subspecies is about 165-308 pounds (74.8427-139.706 kilograms). The Sumatran tiger lives in tropical broadleaf evergreen forests, freshwater swamp forests and and peat swamps. The Sumatran tiger lives on the island of Sumatra which is in Indonesia.  The first reason why the Sumatran tiger is critically endangered is because of poaching. Because of all this poaching this amazing animal could go extinct, fifty a year. According to the New York Times , the Sumatran tiger is going extinct because of poaching. “Only about 500 to 600 Sumatran tigers still live in the wild, and poaching is red