By Bill Alden

Competing in the state Prep B outdoor championships, the Stuart Country Day School track team believed it had done enough to win the meet.

After playing for the Lawrence High girls' basketball team as a freshman, Jalynn Spaulding transferred to Stuart Country Day School in the fall of 2015, hoping to be part of something special for the Tartan hoops program. The smooth, talented guard made an immediate impact in her sophomore season, emerging as a star in helped the Tartans go 19-9 in 2015-16.

Bey-Shana Clark scored the first four points as the Stuart Country Day School basketball team hosted Academy of St. Elizabeth in the state Prep B title game last Wednesday. The two buckets by junior star Clark set the tone as the Tartans raced out to a 35-7 halftime lead. "We were just sharing the ball; it was hard work and hard moves," said Clark in assessing the team's first half performance. Read the full article from Town Topics >>

Sofia Valencia, an eighth-grader at Stuart Country Day School, on Tuesday needed a few snips from a hair stylist's scissors for her ponytail to come off and become an act of charity. She and 11 other students, two staff members and the sister of a staff member donated their hair to Locks of Love, a Florida-based charity that makes wigs for children and young adults with medical conditions that resulted in their hair loss. Stuart, a private all- girls school, has been doing this right around Valentine's Day for the past 18 years — an idea that began with a former student and has continued ever since. Read the full article from the Princeton Packet >>