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A group of fourth graders use pinhole viewers to watch the solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024, at Village Oaks Elementary School in Novi.
Siblings to star on and off the stage in Novi High School musical Two brothers have the leading roles in this year’s Novi High School musical production of “Singin’ in the Rain,” with their sister helping in the wings. Senior Milan Thurman, 18, stars as Don Lockwood, while Thurman’s brother, Ishaan, 15, plays Cosmo Brown, and their sister, Shivani, 12, a seventh grader at Novi Middle
School, helps with the construction of props and costumes. This will be the first and perhaps final time that all three siblings will get to work together on an NHS theatrical production, as Milan will head off to Michigan State University in the fall. “It’s nice. I think it’s sort of a cinematic ending — makes everything feel more real, and it’s always nice to share that with someone that you love and to be able to have those See MUSICAL on page 6A
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ABOVE: Students rehearse a dance for the Novi High School production of “Singin’ in the Rain.” Pictured from left are Sophie Long, Nian Kinnard, Isabelle Shi, Lilly Balino, Milan Thurman and Ishaan Thurman. Photo provided by Milan Thurman
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Elementary school students and staff members in the Novi Community School District could be seen during the afternoon April 8 attempting to view the nearly total eclipse through homemade projectors constructed from cereal and cracker boxes. “We had this box with, like, a pretty big hole on the top and a little dot, and we weren’t looking at it (the sun), but instead we were looking the exact opposite way so you could see it and make it not burn our eyes,” explained Zachary MacClaren, a fourth grader at Village Oaks Elementary in Novi. The projectors consisted of cardboard boxes with one hole cut out on the left side of one end and another hole cut out on the right side with a swatch of foil cut out over it and See ECLIPSE on page 4A
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Novi students use boxes to view eclipse