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However you get there, attending is what counts. As Josettee Spencer strides confidently in foreground, Everett Spencer propels himself on crutches around the track as the Hills´borough High School Class of 2013 class processed around the track at the last planned outdoor graduation at the school. 

Post-ceremony, the Hillsborough High football field turned into one party of graduates being hugged, receiving flowers and having photos of a lifetime taken. Graduate Christopher Obropta poses with his father, also Christopher, brothers Tyler (16) and Quinn (12) and his mother, former Board of Education member Barbara Sargent.

Class of 2013 saluted at last commencement at Hillsborough High campus By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Each high school class has its own personality, Hillsborough High School Principal Karen Bingert told the graduation audience at last Thursday’s commencement exercises.    And the one before her, she gushed, will be remembered largely for its school spirit —…

Rhys Weinberger holds his letter he buried as a fourth-grader eight years ago.

Garrett Dickinson, a high school senior now, digs up the time capsule buried by his Woods Road Elementary class eight years ago.

Woods Road Elementary School digs up time capsule left 8 years ago By Kelly Velocci, Packet Media Group    In 2005, the fourth-grade students of Woods Road Elementary School wrote themselves a poem and a letter to be buried in a time capsule in the school’s garden.    The students were writing to their future selves.    Years…

Jill Rothblatt, a former student at Woods Road School, displays her letter and poem she wrote to herself nearly eight years ago. (Photos by Kelly Velocci)