BLUE HILL — A group of friends at George Stevens Academy has begun publishing a biweekly newspaper, The Procrastinator, which is drawing community attention as it nears its first birthday.

Editor in Chief Lucy Jakub and co-publishers Abe Ziner and Nolan Ellsworth, all juniors, produced the first paper last May.

“It’s a student newspaper and we’re trying to be satirical and also give good advice to the students,” Ziner said.

The Procrastinator might be described as a useful version of the satiric publication The Onion.

A headline in the Jan. 13 Procrastinator announces “Volunteers To Be Sacrificed to Snow God, Please See Erich.” Erich is Erich Reed, GSA’s librarian.

Yet, the same issue contains a helpful guide explaining GSA’s system of advanced placement and honors classes, also written by Ziner.

One of the most popular features, called “Teen Teacher,” is a photo of a GSA teacher from his or her teenage years.

“I think the big draw is the voice,” said Nolan Ellsworth. “It’s our voice. It’s the paper version of our personalities.”

Incidentally, there is ink in Ellsworth’s blood. He is the great-grandson of The Ellsworth American’s late publisher, James Russell Wiggins.

The Procrastinator (and its name) was Jakub’s brainchild.

“It was an idea for a while,” Jakub said, adding that she’d been thinking about it since her freshman year. She was encouraged by her father, who worked on his college newspaper.

“We try to write articles that all the students can relate to,” Jakub said. The paper is also a vehicle for students to share their creative work with others.

“We know the only way to get kids to read stuff is if it’s funny and it’s about them,” Ellsworth said.

An excerpt from Nolan Ellsworth’s recent article, “GSA Lunch, A Moveable Feast,” from the latest issue of the GSA student newspaper, The Procrastinator:

“The lunch spot is a crucial aspect of high school life,” Ellsworth wrote. “The cafeteria, though it can’t hold all of GSA, houses as many as possible at lunch and there is always a frenzied scramble to find vacant chairs.”

“Every freshman begins his lunch career in the cafeteria, but many soon leave to seek sanctuary elsewhere. The hall, for instance. A trip down a GSA hallway around noon will present a scene not unlike the streets of 19th century London. Hundreds of wandering vagabonds, cast out from the overpopulated poorhouse (or lunchroom), sit hunched on the hard ground with not but a Thermos of soup and a Tupperware container of carrot sticks to comfort them.”

For more community news, pick up a copy of The Ellsworth American.