After many fits and starts, The Osprey, formerly Nod, briefly Art Rat, has finally emerged, fully-formed, from incubation.

A year-long endeavor, this newspaper has needed some development. Originally, The Osprey, Art Rat at the time, was the intended successor of Nod, the school’s literary magazine. However, waning interest and a lack of submissions eventually drove that project to extinction, and a void was created. Our industrious and persistent team of founders and editors, Nathan Abraham, Natalie Rugg, and Christian Sweeney, tried a new approach, one focused on more than art and literature. Thus, The Osprey was born.

The Osprey, named after the bird featured on the Old Lyme town crest, is a more traditional newspaper. Our primary sections News, Features, Arts, and Op-eds (sort for Opinions and Editorials).

The News section is focused mainly on time-dependant information. It focuses on going on this day, this week, this month. Op-eds are opinion pieces, from the editor or otherwise. Sports is self-explanatory, it gives you information on local sport teams. Arts are student-made artwork and writing. Features are fun stuff: reviews and entertaining articles.

So what can you, dear student, do to help make this paper as good as possible? Easy: write something! We’re looking for as much content as we can get, and we’re willing to publish most anything we can get. We’re looking to provide you with as much quality content as possible.