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The best stories being published on the SNO Sites network

Best of SNO

The best stories being published on the SNO Sites network

Best of SNO

Mayor Pureval covered numerous topics with members of StuCo during their Nov. 14 meeting. “I remember when he brought up the fact that any citizen from the city of Cincinnati can go to the city hall and speak in front of the mayor,” Ezana Worku, ‘24, Senior StuCo Rep, said. “They do that every Wednesday, so if you have an issue that youre really struggling with or that you really want to present, you can go to them and talk it out.”

Advice with Aftab

By James Overton, Walnut Hills High School January 10, 2024

Aftab Pureval, the mayor of Cincinnati, spoke at a student congress meeting this November. The mayor brought up numerous topics ranging from current local political issues like the Westside shooting but...

The vast majority of MSD students suffer from sleep deprivation. A new law was passed during the 2023 legislative session that seeks to decrease this trend.

Sleep deprivation negatively affects students

By Alison LaTorre, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School January 10, 2024

His eyes start to close, and his head slowly lowers onto his desk. He drifts off to sleep, dreaming of his bed at home. Yesterday after the school bell rang, he rushed to work a five-hour shift at his...

Season of celebration: Burlingames holiday traditions

Season of celebration: Burlingame’s holiday traditions

By Abby Knight and Joelle Huysmans January 10, 2024

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on The Burlingame B. It was originally published on December 18, 2023.

Coppell High School AP U.S. History teacher Joshua sits in his classroom, decorated with unique parts of him. Chanin has been selected as The Sidekick’s Volume 35 No. 3 Teacher of the Issue.

Teacher of the Issue: Chanin creating change by channeling cross-cultural connections

By Anushree De, Coppell High School January 10, 2024

It’s 8:32 a.m. on a Thursday morning and Coppell High School history teacher Joshua Chanin wears a bright smile on his face. His room, adorned with vital aspects of his identity - a photo frame with...

MSD students lack comprehensive sex education, despite the approval of a new curriculum. The new curriculum does not have a specified course for it to be taught in outside of Personal Fitness and Lifestyle Design.

BCPS passes new sex education curriculum

By Brynn Schwartz and Andie Korenge January 9, 2024

*Names indicated were changed to protect students’ anonymity “At your age, you’re going to have a lot of urges,” Coach Carr said in his iconic line in “Mean Girls,” while teaching sex education....

A junior red-tailed hawk clutches its injured wing to its side. This bird received treatment from local bird rehabilitator Allison Webber, who nurses injured birds back to health. The process of finding a rehabilitator can be obscure at times, so Webber is hoping to spread awareness about her work.

Allison Webber: The local rehabilitator changing birds’ lives

By Olivia Green, Wayland High School January 9, 2024

Unbeknownst to some Wayland residents, a complex operation is currently in action in the community: the rehabilitation of raptors, songbirds and owls by rehabilitator Allison Webber. When a bird is injured,...

A blend of purple and blue haze washes over the night sky of San Francisco, courtesy of the city lights below. Although the urban skyline creates a captivating view, the night skys true beauty lies in its natural state: deep, starry blackness. Large cities like this struggle to grapple with the consequences of light pollution, impacting both human and animal inhabitants.

Our disappearing night

By Sophia Schreiber, Carlmont High School January 9, 2024

Obscured by a veil of artificial light, our night sky is disappearing right before our eyes, and along with it, our ability to see stars and constellations.  The glaring culprit? Light pollution, or...

Iman Mohamed, senior, studies the blood splatter that she created while smashing a fake blood-soaked sponge with a hammer during her fifth hour Forensics class.

True Crime Piques Interest in Forensic Science

By Annabelle Miller, Marquette High School January 9, 2024

As Payton Smith, sophomore, walks to her next class, she puts in earbuds and begins the next episode of her favorite Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) podcast.  Smith said she became interested in true...

A reindeer in the Christmas reindeer pen of Dzen Tree Farm.

A Christmas Story Come to Life

By Emma Cherubini, South Windsor High School January 9, 2024

John Dzen, the owner of Dzen Christmas Tree Farm, has had reindeer on his property for almost eight years. The four reindeer are named Tuca, Belle, Rudy, and Dash. Tuca and Belle are the parents. Tuca...

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Practicing religions

By Bareen Abdulrahman, Walnut Hills High School January 9, 2024

While discussing quantum physics on his first Missionary camp trip, a realization struck Christian Methodist Jack Crego, '27. "The stuff I learned previously about quantum physics seemed like it...

Leaning into the microphone, junior Ella Dorfman stands in the recording booth to record the first episode of her reproductive health podcast, “Sexplained.” The podcast was inspired by her ninth grade service project focused on sexual health, and Dorfman said she likes to tackle difficult topics with conversation. “Even if you’re scared, youve just got to talk about it,” Dorfman said. “Talk about it: that should be tattooed on my forehead.”

Severing stigma with ‘Sexplained’: Junior hosts new sexual education podcast to educate through conversation, transparency

By Maya Hernández, Archer School for Girls January 5, 2024

Disclaimer: This article contains language and topics relating to sexual health, pornography and sexual organs that may not be suitable for all ages and readers. Six years ago, sitting in her fifth...

St. Anthonys Foundations dining room sits on Golden Gate Avenue in San Franciscos Tenderloin. They serve approximately 1,700 meals everyday according to their website.

Solving San Francisco’s crisis

By Alexander Menchtchikov, Carlmont High School January 5, 2024

According to the 2022 Point-in-Time (PIT) count, 887 out of 100,000 San Francisco residents experience homelessness. That is the third-highest rate in the United States, ranking only behind Oakland and...

Students lead protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement at Mill Valley. Photo courtesy of Steve Disenhof | Used with permission

The bigger picture

By Kathryn Foo and Lillian Wang January 4, 2024

When Jack Owicki and Teri Vershel were asked to coordinate photography for the Women’s March in January 2017, photojournalist Steve Disenhof was one of the first volunteers to put his hand up. After...

Medineh Nasir, who is from Afghanistan, starts her project for the ESL Celebration Around The World alongside teacher Mima Nazarene. She presented about the celebrations for Adha Eid from her country.

Colliding Cultures: English Second Language program provides community, language learning platform for foreign students

By Lourdes Hernandez Peraza, Vandegrift High School January 4, 2024

Ecstatically looking for their flags, students from all around the globe gathered around the classroom tables. Though they come from different countries and experienced different cultures, one thing unites...

Coppell High School senior stage manager Sarah Myers works in the control booth of the CHS Auditorium on Nov. 29, where she spends time giving cues to actors and stagehands. Myers plays an integral role in the CHS theater program as stage manager, making sure all of the departments shows run smoothly.

Far from spotlight but still shining, Myers excels as stage manager

By Yug Talukdar, Coppell High School January 4, 2024

As the lights of the theater dim and the curtains are drawn open, New Tech High @ Coppell senior Sarah Myers, Cowboy Theatre Company stage manager, carefully watches, making sure the process is flowing...

There are many components that make up agriculture, including traditional crop and livestock farming, as well as aquaculture, biotechnologies, and cultivation of natural resources.

Young agriculturalists change the world

By Grace Miller, Cannon Falls High School January 4, 2024

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on Lantern. It was originally published on December 26, 2023.

Teacher and water polo coach Justine Hedlund drops her child off at Carlmont High Schools onsite daycare center on a Thursday morning. The daycare has made my schedule as a working parent a lot easier to manage, Hedlund said.

A national struggle: child care’s impact on working women

By Isabella Zarzar, Carlmont High School December 20, 2023

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. This story was originally published on Scot Scoop News on December 12, 2023.

A hen with her chicks in front of A-Building.

1 Hen, 2 Chicks, … A hundred chickens

By Joseph H. Mai, McKinley High School - HI December 20, 2023

Principal Ron Okamura has been working at McKinley High School since 2008 and has seen the chicken population from the beginning. Okamura said originally there were two hens at this school in the heart...

Four years ago, former Guidance Department Coordinator Marybeth Sacramone brought in Ricki Bear Golden (RBG) to Wayland High School as a Community Resource Dog to ease students’ anxiety and nerves. Since then, WHS administration has called in additional therapy dogs, who currently make regular visits. “I think seeing therapy dogs around the school, at least every once in a while, is a good way to be reminded that there is always a friend that is willing to comfort you, even if its a furry friend,” junior Anna Varney said.

Unleashing student smiles: Therapy dogs make their mark on WHS

By Chloe Zilembo, Wayland High School December 20, 2023

Four years ago, former Guidance Department Coordinator Marybeth Sacramone brought Ricki Bear Golden (RBG) to Wayland High School as a Community Resource Dog (CRD) to ease students’ anxiety and nerves....

Many students worry about missing school due to sickness because they fear their grades will drop due to their absence. Thus, they prioritize academic expectations over their health and continue to attend school while ill.

Academic pressure forces students to attend school despite sickness

By Jeannine Chiang, Burlingame High School - CA December 20, 2023

This November, junior Luke Frikert caught the flu and missed 10 days of school as a result. But for Frikert, his illness was a secondary concern. “When I got sick, the first thing I was thinking about...

Just ‘Kidding Around’

Just ‘Kidding Around’

By Peyton Goss, Granville High School December 19, 2023

Most high school students have a long list of responsibilities such as homework or projects and things like that. Here at Granville High School, a group of students have the added responsibility of taking...

Chesterfield Mall opened in 1976 as the largest shopping mall in the St. Louis County area. By the mid-2010s, several of the mall’s largest tenants, such as Dillard’s and American Girl Doll, closed. The only national names still operating in the mall are V-Stock and The Cheesecake Factory. Any redevelopment may affect the district as the district boundary falls just outside the mall’s land.

That’s A Wrap

By Willem Hummel, Marquette High School December 19, 2023

A young Sofia Maciariello admired the reindeer, the little snow capped mountain and icicles that dotted the ceiling of Chesterfield Mall as she stood in line with her family waiting for Santa. After...

Mariah Vu smiles during seventh period while assisting a student during a test. She saves time by multitasking, carrying around a clipboard, grading papers and proctoring the test.

‘Is this benefitting my family?’

By McKenzie Le, Bellaire High School December 19, 2023

She sits among piles upon piles and stacks on stacks of her students’ assignments. HADV and IB Biology teacher Mariah Vu grades on average 130 papers a day, along with lengthy lab reports from her...

Title X serves as an affordable healthcare program, for those who do not have health insurance. As of December 2022, when Title X was overruled, Texans can no longer rely on health centers to provide for their contraception needs.

The battle for contraception continues

By Emerson Traugott, James Bowie High School December 19, 2023

As the gavel lands and the ruling becomes official, the longevity of the Title X programs comes to an abrupt halt in Texas, marking another win for conservatives in the long road toward restricting reproductive...

Pain and Pride

By Grayson Westbrook, Vandegrift High School December 19, 2023

In 45 seconds, you could wash a couple dishes, send an email, or grab a snack from the pantry. While 45 seconds feels like an insignificant amount of time to the average person, queer kids feel differently....

Chris Herren inspires reflection among students

By Audrey Gorey, Downers Grove North High School December 19, 2023

A crowded gym, a guest speaker, and a story to be told. The DGN student body waited patiently for a presentation, but this one was far different from expected. Former NBA player Chris Herren struggled...

While senior care facilities are places for important end-of-life care, issues such as understaffing and insufficiently trained staff can lead to senior mistreatment and lasting impacts.

Senior mistreatment allegations underscore larger senior abuse issues

By Kara Kim, Carlmont High School December 18, 2023

While new medical and technological advances aid in the continued growth of the elderly population and the consequent importance of senior care facilities, senior abuse has also become an increasingly...

Theater teacher Nathaniel Unroe looks down at a picture frame of the playbill from the first play he ever directed, The Castle, a photo of the cast he worked with for the play and the first two dollars he ever earned while directing.

Directing his heart

By Claire Bradford, Bellaire High School December 18, 2023

His parents didn’t force the performing arts onto him, and he rejected theater during his childhood. He wanted to do something different from his parents, something different from the environment he’d...

A world united

By Milo Slevin, Evanston Township High School December 18, 2023

As Taylor Thurston drives from her home in Glenview to volunteer on the border of Wilmette and Evanston, she passes through quintessential Chicago suburbia. Magnificent properties line the streets while...

The power of inclusion

By Keira Hart, Catherine Mckenzie, Mars Smith, and Abby Prescott December 15, 2023

They do it for the smile. Pure genuine happiness, something so alien in day-to-day high school life. It’s what makes an educator’s job so different from the others. Coach Devin “Gonzo” Gonzalez,...

Tim Easter stands in front of a board in his classroom which showcases the work of his Lakota language students.

Preserving Lakota: Teaching an endangered language in the modern classroom

By Kate Matthes, Lincoln High School December 15, 2023

Try to summarize culture; without language, it is futile. Words make it possible to teach, learn and pass on tradition. But what happens when elements of a dialect start to dissipate or are taken over...

American Sign Language students at FHC are building communities as they break down communication barriers

By Saniya Mishra, Forest Hills Central High School December 15, 2023

Senior Molly O’Meara has always wanted to be able to communicate with her nonverbal younger cousin Louis. And so, she took American Sign Language (ASL) classes in high school to do just that. Molly...

Julia Barrett (‘24) holds one of Curts’ stress relieving dinosaurs.

ISSUE 2: No More Bad Days with Croslay

By Cecilia Cheng, Robinson High School - FL December 14, 2023

When some people have a bad day, they make cookies with their friends, take time to have a spa day and journal or jam out to music in their car. But for senior Madeline Curts, she digs through her yarn...

For those with misophonia, an auditory sensory disorder, certain sounds become a problem interfering with their daily lives.

Charity Issue: Blocking out the noise

By Allie Caffey, Kirkwood High School December 14, 2023

The sound of a person chewing loudly, someone repeatedly clicking a pen, people coughing. For many, these noises are simply minor annoyances one might hear once in a while. For those with misophonia, an...

With more custom built houses and luxury apartments being developed, Coppell’s real estate prices have experienced a dramatic increase in recent years. As a result of the high housing rates, less young families are moving to Coppell and enrollment in Coppell ISD schools has dropped.

Priced out of the playground

By Manasa Borra, Coppell High School December 13, 2023

Recess isn't quite what it used to be with fewer kids than ever racing down slides and climbing over monkey bars. As cafeteria tables become increasingly empty, the vacant seats pose one question: where...

During 8th grade orientation, graduate Luna Tafolla dances with the Spanish Club. Behind her are some of the many flags in the cafeteria that represent the countries that students at LHS come from.

Help Adjusting to a New Home

By Emily Sanchez, Logansport High School December 13, 2023

According to Brookings, thousands of migrants are heading north through Mexico toward the United States border each day. The number of U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants and asylum seekers at...

Volunteers at KirkCare picks up food drive items from KHS.

Charity Issue: Kirkwood cares

By Kiley Huang, Kirkwood High School December 13, 2023

Volunteers walk their clients through the newly refurbished food pantry that mimics a grocery store, as grocery carts squeak as they go through the aisles, all overseen by the giant black, white and red...

High school graduates are feeling scared for their identity now more than ever, given the recent violence and hate crimes on college campuses.

Campus Crisis:

By Lily Zuckerman, The Masters School December 13, 2023

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on Tower. It was originally published on December 12, 2023.

Homeschooling has shaped students’ development in ways traditional schools do not.

A 1 to 1 teacher to student ratio

By Lilly Wu and Olivia Yuan December 12, 2023

Instead of waking up every morning for 8:30 a.m. classes, a typical day in the life of a homeschooled student can be quite different. Some homeschooled students start their academics later in the morning...

Christie Staszcuk helps sophomore Tyler Harper on an assignment during ac- lab on Friday Nov. 10.

Auf Wiedersehen (Goodbye)

By Alyssa Weisenberg, Parkway Central High School December 12, 2023

Out of the 7,100 languages spoken today, English is the third most popular language, according to  translatedtoday.com. Mandarin is the most popular language. So, why doesn’t Parkway Central High School...

Acknowledging appropriation

Acknowledging appropriation

By Mazzy Warren, James Bowie High School December 12, 2023

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on The Dispatch. It was originally published on December 7, 2023.

Security guard Joshua Margalus looks out over the learning commons.

Discipline at DGS: Change in consequences, increase in infractions

By Sabrina Crowley, Sebastian Blanco, Juliana Conyer, and Maya Homberg December 11, 2023

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on Blueprint. It was originally published on December 8, 2023.

A survey sent by The Forest Scout indicates that a majority of students at LFHS have cheated this school year, some believing their decisions have no harm. Graphic by Taylor Ross.

A Culture of Cheating

By Emma Stadolnik and Caroline Gerber December 8, 2023

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on The Forest Scout. It was originally published on December 5, 2023.

In a world that measures success in titles and wealth lies a realm of warmth and acceptance filled by families and individuals touched by Down syndrome.

Charity Issue: Maren’s mission

By Lucy Cortright and Tess Hubbard December 8, 2023

In a world that measures success in titles and wealth lies a realm of warmth and acceptance filled by families and individuals touched by Down syndrome. While having a child with Down syndrome can be a...

Sam Kuhlemeier works quietly in class while her teacher is away administering the Practice ACT. Kuhlemeier uses the free period to catch up on Chemistry homework.

Four-day school weeks: a possible solution to teacher retention

By Katie Spampinato, Wakefield High School - NC December 8, 2023

As schools across the nation grapple with teacher shortages, one solution being explored is a four-day school week. With 900 school districts operating on a shortened week, working educators, administrators...

Villalobos works on the prosthetic
arm for Jesse who requested it to be turquoise and black.

Augustine Villalobos: On the Bounds of Biology and Engineering

By Rishi Janakiraman, Stanford Online High School December 8, 2023

Behind the workings of a turquoise-black prosthetic arm — sized to precision, hand opening and closing, shipped all the way to Portugal — is OHS student Augustine Villalobos (‘23), a high-school...

Orchestra Director Matthew Nix and orchestra students at the Symphony, Chamber, and Concert Choir performance on Nov. 9

New orchestra director fosters positivity and student-focused curriculum

By Mara Saltzman, NEW TRIER HIGH SCHOOL December 8, 2023

Editor’s Note: Mara Saltzman is involved in the performing arts program through choir and theater.  New director of orchestras Matthew Nix is eager to have a positive impact on New Trier High School....

Our communitys car dependency

Our community’s car dependency

By Michael Wang, Isabella Kunc, and Isabel Li December 8, 2023

This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on Viewer. It was originally published on October 7, 2023.

The Yaro Foundation works on giving rural children the supplies they need to go to school.

Charity Issue: Building foundations back home

By Owen Spiegel and Ian Reno December 7, 2023

More than a year ago, the very first player signed by St. Louis City SC was a center back from Ghana by the name of Joshua Yaro. By signing Yaro, City moved the Yaro’s foundation’s (figurative) headquarters...

WSS investigates the changes in attention and cognitive function with West students.

1-2-3, eyes on me

By Celia Sadewasser and Shanza Sami December 7, 2023

Buzz — a single notification may only cause a small vibration, but it commands the attention of the typical teenager within seconds. Teenagers are constantly bombarded with notifications: a median of...

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