While most seniors are fretting over college applications and SATs, Sessions is running a city of 8,500. At 18 (1 month and 17 days, to be exact), he became the youngest mayor in the United States and perhaps ever. In November, Sessions ousted the 51-year-old incumbent, Doug Ingles, 670-668...

...Why not just run for student council?

I ran for vice president of the student council back in May and lost.

You lost? How in the world can you lose a student council race and win a citywide race?

I ran against a girl.

Marks Meadow PGG News Calendar.

AMHERST - Do you want to see the vibrating floor? asked Alisa Brewer.

Members of the Amherst School Committee, touring Crocker Farm Elementary School, had just welcomed a latecomer to their group. Brewer pulled the visitor into the computer lab, marched her to a corner and let her listen to the roar of shaking metal.

Brewer then pointed to a chair in front of a computer.

''Can you imagine sitting here to do your work?'' she asked.