Sofia Escobar is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School. You can always find her in the library typing away on her Chromebook. With a love for reading and writing, it is no surprise that she has many books still waiting to be ...

Emily Snit is a 15 year old sophomore at Lindenhurst High School. This is their first year writing for the Charles Street Times. They are in Science Club and President of the Environmental Club, as well as multiple honors classes and one...

Damiano Drucker is a sophomore at Lindenhurst High School. This is his first year writing for the CST. He is interested in motorsports and music production. He enjoys the experience of listening to a song with powerful lyrics ...

Juliona Bacalles is a junior at Lindenhurst High School. This will be her second year writing for the Charles Street Times. She is 16 years old and has two dogs named Sunshine and Cuddles. Juliona is mostly interested in medicine and ...

Izzy is a Junior at Lindenhurst High School. This is their second year writing for the Charles Street Times and they are so excited. With a passion for writing, film, cinematography and broadcasting, Izzy hopes to study Film and Me...

Joseph Gambino is a 15 year old sophomore at Lindenhurst High School. He has written for The Charles Street Times in a previous school year. Joseph enjoys relaxing at home, playing games, reading, and watching films. Joseph’s fa...

Jack Hughes is a junior attending Lindenhurst High School. This will be his first year attending, as well as writing articles for The Charles Street Times. He loves to write and is excited to have the opportunity to write for the school newspap...

Nalini Mahabir is a Freshman at Lindenhurst High School. She spends most of her time sleeping, drawing, or playing video games. She has lots of interests such as art, history, true crime and anime/manga. Despite being very lazy, she ac...

Nicolina Bilella is a sophomore at Lindenhurst High School.  This is her second year writing for the Charles Street Times.  She is most specifically attracted to sports, including: running, fencing, and badminton.  She plays on a...

Erika Hendrickson is a 14 year old freshman attending Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing for The Charles Street Times. She enjoys acting, swimming, listening to music, watching movies and hanging out with fr...

Mr. LaStella has been teaching in the Lindenhurst School District for 17 years.  This is his first year teaching journalism and being involved with The Charles Street Times. He is a movie buff,  music lover, and an avid Jets...

Anthony Vasseur is a Senior in the Lindenhurst High School. He is a captain of the Copiague Junior Fire Company. Anthony has been a member of the department for 4 years as of August 2021. Anthony also competes nationally in the...

Angelina is a 14 year old freshman at Lindenhurst High School, and this is her first year in the broadcasting program. She has made Principal’s List all throughout middle school. When she’s not thinking about school, Angelina is...

Angela Solorzano is a freshman attending Lindenhurst High School. She enjoys playing video games, painting, listening to music, watching tennis and hanging out with friends. She is also on the JV tennis team. She is looking for...

Evelyn Bickmeyer is a sophomore at Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing for the CST. She plays field hockey,basketball and lacrosse for the school. Evelyn loves astrology, sports and music. Her favorite sports ...

Cassidy Botsch is a 14 year old freshman at Lindenhurst High School. She has known that she wants to major in journalism in college since she was 10 years old and dreams to be a future Columbia alumni. Cassidy is a runner for...

Gemma Knowd is a 14 year old Freshman at Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing for the Charles Street Times. She loves to bake and read in her free time. Gemma is originally from Queens, NY and loves going to Manha...

Brooke Elliott, a senior at Lindenhurst High School, is editor in chief of the Charles Street Times. With a passion for writing and literature, she plans on pursuing a career in the journalism field. She's captain of the varsity tenn...

Emilie is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School. In her free time she enjoys drawing, playing video games, jewelry, and hanging out with friends. This is her first year writing for The Charles Street Times. She loves to write an...

Julie Leon is a junior at Lindenhurst High School. She enjoys dancing and has been a competitive dancer for almost 10 years. Most of her time is spent at dance, but she makes sure to leave time for her family and friends, whi...

Michelle Estevez is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School, and it’s her first year writing for The Charles Street Times. She is 13 years old, and is an only child. She enjoys reading dystopian/fantasy novels, writing, swimming, a...

Sheyla Santos is a 14 year old freshman. Born on April Fools Day, she has a few tricks up her sleeve that she will incorporate into the school paper. Santos runs cross country and track, with more of a skill in distance. She enj...

Anya Pawa is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing at The Charles Street Times. Both her parents are Indian. She is very proud of her culture and ethnicity. She loves to travel, play basketball an...

Aiden Mercado is a 14 year old freshman attending Lindenhurst High School. He moved into Lindenhurst, coming from Manhattan in 4th grade and has lived in the town of Lindenhurst for 5 years now. In his free time, Aiden enjoys pl...

Michelle Kurianowicz is a senior at Lindenhurst High School, and this is her second year writing for the Charles Street Times. Along with being captain of the Lindenhurst Varsity Tennis Team, Michelle is Secretary General of Lindenhurs...

Madison Cohen is a freshman at Lindenhurst High  School and it is her first year of writing for the Charles Street Times. She enjoys boxing, playing basketball, reading, hanging out with her friends and watching lots of Netflix. S...

Giuliana Barberio, a senior at the Lindenhurst High School, is returning to her third year with the Charles Street Times as Co-Editor in Chief. Last year, she was voted for President of the Newspaper Club, and plans to run for the ...

Maggie is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing for The Charles Street Times and it's also the first year that she has decided to pursue writing. She fell in love with the idea of journalism and wr...

Damien Callaghan is a junior at Lindenhurst High School and this is his first year writing for the Charles Street Times. In school, his favorite subject is English, and he is taking 5 English classes because of it. He has been in t...

Alyssa Michaels is a 17 year old senior in Lindenhurst High School. She was born July 10th, 2004. Alyssa enjoys writing, sleeping, playing video games, watching crime documentaries, going shopping, hanging out with her friends, a...

Sara Morello is a senior at Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing for The Charles Street Times. Sara is a member of both the Girls Varsity Soccer and Varsity Track teams. She looks forward to writing about sport...

Samantha Nuss is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School. This is her first year writing for the Charles Street Times. Samantha has played softball for the past couple of years.  When outside of school, she enjoys going out wi...

Erin Holzwarth is a Junior in Lindenhurst High School. After moving to Lindenhurst last year, Erin is excited to get more involved with things like The Charles Street Times. An average day in her life includes lots of music, ...

Lara Sinkus is a sophomore at Lindenhurst High School and this is her second year writing for the Charles Street Times. Lara does competitive dance and trains in various styles, six days a week, for over twenty-five hours a we...

Joseph Victor Rippo is a fifteen-year-old Sophomore at Lindenhurst High School. He took broadcasting in his Freshman year, and decided to take journalism this year. His favorite classes include biology, ASL, journalism, and c...

Ritika Singh is a freshman at Lindenhurst High School, she’s a 14 year old girl who enjoys art, drawing, and playing sports such as basketball and volleyball.  This is her first year writing for The Charles Street Times. S...

Chloe Hendrickson is a junior at Lindenhurst High School. This is her second year writing for the Charles Street Times. She is big into music, especially 70’s and 80’s music with the occasional rap and country. She has alway...

Ivana Milanov is a Junior at Lindenhurst High School, and this is her second year writing for the Charles Street Times. She is 16 years old and a Leo sun. In school she takes a few AP classes. Outside of school in her free time,...

Tyler Faber is a sophomore in Lindenhurst High School and it is his second year writing for the Charles Street Times. He is enthusiastic about writing and finds it as a good way to express himself and his opinion. Besides writing...

Mrs. Kelly has been teaching at LHS for 22 years and this is her seventh year advising for the Charles Street Times.  She believes the CST has really grown these past few years.  Her goal is to help journalists reach new heig...