Welcome To The Range!

After a summer that flew by, it’s time to return to school. For us, that includes continuing to work on the Range. We are the Mountain Range Editorial staff, or the Newspaper team. We both took Journalism previously, and enjoyed it enough that we decided to come back as editors. 

Our job is pretty fun. We get to polish up the website for our school paper, manage the incoming articles, and we get to create our own articles. Throughout the course of this year, everyone can have chances to learn so many new things about being in a leadership position. As the year goes on, we will be helping manage and work on articles for the Range, while the Journalism students learn how to and begin to create content.

Although we all joined Journalism for various reasons, we ended up loving it all the same. We hope to be able to both continue what we started as members of the Journalism team, but also to improve the Range and leave it better than we found it. Being editors gives us more responsibility, but at the same time more ways to help push the Range even further. Our improvements to the Range will continue to keep it alive for future members and writers, as well as readers, and help spark that same love in others. We have this opportunity to advance the paper, and to keep it relevant, keep it important, and most of all: keep it true to our school.

Without further ado, here is the 2025 - 2026 Editorial Staff:

Vinny Dodero is an aspiring senior student athlete that enjoys writing, watching and talking about sports. He loves anything about sports and can ramble about them forever. After he began playing football, baseball and basketball all by the age of 4, Vinny has become a lover of all sports. He is also a 2x captain of the varsity football team and will be a captain of the track and field team this upcoming spring. Vinny has loved writing about sports all since he began watching sports talk shows with his dad at a young age, or listening to them on the radio. He also began reading articles about the sports he loved like football and basketball. Since a young age he's wanted to become a sports reporter and hopes to stay involved with sports as he gets older. Aside from this being his second year taking journalism, he has taken creative writing classes in the past. Outside of his active sports and school you can find him in a student section of a MRHS sporting event, swimming at home with friends, playing video games, or enjoying time with his family. You can follow him on Instagram @vinny.dodero or keep up with his football career on X @DoderoVinny

Lilah Gauthier is a dedicated 11th grade, second year, Journalism student with a strong curiosity and a drive for storytelling. Her enthusiasm for English Literature fuels her ambition to make a meaningful impact through her writing. Her influences include authors such as Christopher Pike, Patricia Cornwell, and Ernest Hemingway. She hopes to one day work for a big news outlet as a respected journalist, such as The New York Times or The Washington Post. She enjoys genres such as horror, mystery and non-fiction. Her dedication to thorough research and engaging storytelling sets her apart as an emerging journalist with a unique perspective. She aims to bring nuanced perspectives to her readers in an attempt to make subjects engaging. She loves the simple things in life, such as, outdoors, friends, and family. She loves to snowboard. She enjoys the colder weather and sunsets. She also has a strong passion for music. You can follow her on Instagram @lilah_bg