Ella Webb and Georgia Kuijpers put the Cambridge News issue of December 9, 2021, into the time capsule which will go to the Cambridge Museum as a record of Cambridge High School students’ reactions to the Covid pandemic. Other copies of last week’s newspaper, which included a story about the time capsule project on the front page, will got into other capsules which will be opened at future school reunions.
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