As apples are dipped into sweet honey, a year just as sweet is rung in. The connection between food and tradition runs strong within the roots of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. The holiday is celebrated...

Many young girls dream of being a fashion model when they grow up. They practice strutting down the runway and posing for imaginary paparazzi in the mirror.  These dreams became reality for juniors...

Many have heard of the term ‘girl dinner’, whether by scrolling mindlessly through Tiktok or Instagram, maybe through a friend. But, there is a chance readers may have indulged in girl dinner without...

For the past nine years, sophomore Maya Kumar has been taking bharatanatyam classes for three hours every week to master her dance.  Bharatanatyam is one of the oldest dance forms in the world, and its...

Amidst the global struggle of food waste, resulting in more than one-third of all food being thrown away, Too Good To Go has emerged to turn things around. Founded in 2016, the app service now spans 17...

As surfers ride the waves in the cool blue waters of Santa Cruz, one omnipresent threat looms over them all — an overly-social, delinquent sea otter. The aquatic outlaw, which local officials call Otter...

Austin ISD announced Monday that longtime assistant principal Andy Baxa will assume the role of permanent principal at McCallum, beginning next school year. Baxa is replacing Nicole Griffith, who departed...

For 10 days science teacher Dejah Bushong sat in worry as her snake Zith, (formerly known as Berry) was missing. Bushong realized Zith was missing from her enclosure the morning of Aug. 21. She pulled...

Bright lighting, smooth wooden floors and a wall-to-wall mirror with a barre make up the classic ballet studio. This is where some students spend hours a week practicing for performances and competitions,...

As the traffic light flashed green, senior Sharang Vyas lurched forward. Accelerating onto the toll road access ramp, he felt his anxiety begin to resurface. With only a short runway of an entrance...

As Loklin Gertschen-Klaseus '25 relaxed under the anesthesia, he turned to inspect the IV line in his right arm and gazed at the lights flickering above him, his heart fluttering with anticipation and...

For a long time, small book vendors kept themselves busy by mostly selling works of literature and working with school libraries. But that all changed when Texas House Bill 900 (HB900) took effect Sept....

It was the big day. Months of practice tests, tutoring sessions and caffeine had all been in preparation for this moment. However mere days before the scheduled exam, Ellie Whang ’24 felt her stomach...

The current rise in temperatures are causing concerns throughout the state regarding the heat. With temperatures as hot as 110 degrees Fahrenheit, discussions focus on climate change and its consequences,...

In the intricate world of high school yearbook production, change is not always easy to digest. For the past several years, Coppell High School's Round-Up yearbook has been a shining star in the realm...

Everyone knows him. Everyone loves him. He brings joy to all the students of the ag barn. Affectionately known as Mr. Pickles to the Wildkats who know and love him, the cat who is guards the barn now needs...

On a sun-drenched morning at the end of the 1960s, as war raged across the Pacific and Beetlemania spread stateside, the Studio City fire department received an unusual call. There had been a brush fire...

At 5 a.m. on a fall morning in 1993, the final roll of carpet was installed in what was the skeleton of Marquette High School. Two years prior, a $65 million bond issue allowed for the building of two...

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? For Upside Foods, the answer is neither. The food technology company harvests animal cells and uses them to grow FDA-approved meat without slaughtering animals....

On June 15th, Montgomery County Public Schools joined over 500 U.S. school districts in a lawsuit first filed in May by neighboring Prince George’s County Public Schools against prominent social media...

2,580 miles away from her home in Medellin, Columbia, Maria Gomez stepped into Evanston Township High School (ETHS) for the first time in 2021, a junior in high school. As Gomez made her way through the...

On Saturday, Sept. 16 and Sunday, Sept. 17, female firefighters from several Northern California fire departments hosted the biannual NorCal First Alarm Fire Camp at College of San Mateo (CSM) for high...

The lights of the stadium reflect off the metal of the instruments, bouncing back to their eyes as they move their fingers, feet or entire bodies in sync with one another. The feeling of sweat fills every...

College application season is a tumultuous time for many MVHS seniors — paperwork piles up and print-outs loom, but some students have a more specialized undertaking ahead of them than the typical academic...

Playing pretend princess as a child is now something of a reality for sophomore Riti Patel who has become a modern-day beauty queen on a statewide stage. Riti was officially crowned as Miss Texas Runner-Up...

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Crowded hallways. Packed cafeterias. Congested auditoriums. High school life may be new to freshman Dilara Dileo—but it isn’t to all of her classmates. “[The freshmen class is] large, it's about...

Today marks one year since the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was stopped by the morality police for not wearing her headscarf properly. Three days after her apprehension,...

Bounding through their front door at 2:30 p.m., young children go straight to electronic devices to occupy themselves while their parents finish working at home. In order to not bother their working parents,...

Practically everywhere you go now, you're bound to witness the societal consequences of job shortages. Restaurants void of decent service, stores where you have to chase down the employees, theme parks...

One hundred thirty-five freshmen entered Latin’s Upper School on August 29—five more than the class of 2026, 10 more than the class of 2025, and 12 more than the class of 2024. With these continuous...

Standing at the front of the classroom, chemistry teacher Beverly Hassell performs a lab demonstration as her students watch, their eyes wide with curiosity.  Hassell initially started as an undergraduate...

Cardboard trinkets of a pitchfork and a Big John mascot lay scattered across room D110. Students, wearing aprons littered with splashes of paint and ink, plot how the next maroon and white ribbons should...

For two weeks in July, the Trail's Editor-in-Chief senior Rebekah Bushmire and Features Editor sophomore Grace Lovejoy played a role in the New Voices Student Leader Institute run by The Student Press...

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The year is 1967. The average cost of a house in America was $14,500. Gas averaged 39 cents a gallon, and Frank Sinatra won five awards at the 9th Annual Grammy awards. A young teacher from the Rio...

The new school year was off to an inspiring start after the Welcome Back Assembly on Sept. 1, which featured Mickey Rowe, a legally blind, autistic actor turned speaker and disability awareness advocate. ...

After the Brunswick High School Rebuild Plan was recently pushed back another decade, the community questions if Brunswick students will ever attend high school in a new building.   The current...

A fridge. A “Snacktivity Cart.” A green couch. A pedestal table with two chairs. A charging station. A piece of art saying “I read Banned Books” with Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” These...

Ron DeSantis, Republican governor of Florida since 2019, announced his bid for the presidency last week. Since then, several media outlets have covered his policies, his connection to multi-billionaire...

It's never too early to start giving back to your community, and that’s exactly what Amador Valley junior Ishan Junnarkar started doing. Junnarkar created his non-profit Magnus, to help those in crises...

It started with using tanning beds on a weekly basis. Then, when she was showing a heart-shaped mole on her arm to a friend, her friend soon realized it wasn’t actually a mole. In 2008, sophomore...

Taking a deep breath in, Hita Thota (12) trains her eyes on the black and white music sheet in front of her and focuses on the first note. Closing her eyes, she begins to guide the violin bow across the...

Over the last three years in her position as the Director of Equity and Inclusion, Ms. Kiah Mounsey has made strides for La Salle to advance the school’s policies, working to create a more inclusive...