
TASTE OF TRADITION
By Avey Gannaway and Sarah Nitsun
• September 29, 2023

Lights, camera, smile
By Gabriella Navarro, Hagerty High School
• September 29, 2023

Is it a meal or a snack? Both, it’s ‘girl dinner’
By Emily Ziajor, West Chicago Community High School
• September 29, 2023
96-Year-Old Graduate Inspires Students To Value Education
By Jadyn Arzola, Lampasas High School
• September 29, 2023

Ascending the stage
By Leah Desai and Sania Nadkarni
• September 29, 2023
Tell me how to get to Sesame Street
By Abby Ruebush, Normal Community High School
• September 28, 2023

Too Good to Go tackles food waste on a budget
By Masha Rozenfeld, Carlmont High School
• September 28, 2023

Otter 841: The audacious, surfboard-snatching menace
By Victor Gong, The Harker Upper School
• September 28, 2023

Baxa named permanent principal
By Lanie Sepehri, McCallum High School
• September 27, 2023
In the air with Ilan
By Sania Nadkarni, Monta Vista High School
• September 27, 2023

Science Teacher Reunited With Missing Snake After 10 Days
By Willow Collins, Lampasas High School
• September 27, 2023

No more finishing touches
By Sophia D'Sa, Monta Vista High School
• September 27, 2023

Dallas driving disasters
By Hilton Sampson and Arjun Poi
• September 26, 2023

Stitching Identities
By MeJo Liao, Harvard-Westlake School
• September 26, 2023

Testing the SAT
By Alden Detmer, Harvard-Westlake School
• September 26, 2023

Triple Threat
By Olivia Evans and Madeline Rivera
• September 26, 2023

Flipping the page: New beginnings in yearbook with Hester taking the helm
By Rhea Choudhary, Coppell High School
• September 26, 2023
Flowing with compassion: Student-led non-profit expands internationally
By Zeba Hussaini, Green Hope High School
• September 26, 2023

Much loved cat benefits from GoFundMe
By Ashley Briones and Victoria Medina
• September 26, 2023

War Games: New Marching Orders
By Zoe Goor, Harvard-Westlake School
• September 25, 2023

The year was 1993
By Anvi Talyan and Elliott Jorgensen
• September 25, 2023

Make it meat(less?)
By Ruby Kotok, CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
• September 25, 2023

Whitman reacts: School districts across the state join TikTok lawsuit
By Olivia Hansel, Walt Whitman High School
• September 22, 2023
Burlingame students witness tragedy of Maui fires
By Joelle Huysmans, Burlingame High School - CA
• September 22, 2023

Seeking Affinity
By Sophia Sherman, Isaac Suarez Flint, and Marin Ubersox
• September 22, 2023

Biannual NorCal First Alarm Fire Camp teaches teenage girls critical firefighting skills
By Abby Knight, Burlingame High School - CA
• September 21, 2023
![Holding up the Timberwolf hand sign after performing Metal Shop at halftime, seniors Austin Waldbusser and Connor Daly pose with sophomore Andrew McCarthy.The three band members spent their summer with Dum Corps International, a non-profit that is known to be the highest level of marching band available. “One [of the reasons for joining] just watching [DCI Corps] shows and being kind of a band nerd about it in general was cool and being like ‘I want to do that’,” Daly said. “Then, one of the now alumni, went to march in the corp of The Phantom Regiment last year, and I was like well ‘I can do it, someone else I know can do it, may as well try it.’”](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_1190-1200x800.jpg)
A Summer of Passion and Excellence
By Alyssa Fox, Cedar Park High School
• September 21, 2023

The art of ambition
By Isabelle Kok, Monta Vista High School
• September 21, 2023

From princess to queen: sophomore crowned as Miss Texas Runner Up
By Sarayu Bongale, Liberty High School - TX
• September 20, 2023

The unseen epidemic: teens struggle in the face of suicide
By Rei Baxter, Carlmont High School
• September 20, 2023
![Adapting. Students pass in front of the guidance office on their way to class. For freshmen, the new high school environment can prove to be stressful at first. Its really difficult to get to classes on time when theres a lot of traffic in the halls, especially at the bridge, Dileo said. [But] now that Im more comfortable in the [high] school, I dont worry as much and its not as much of a struggle as it was the first couple of days.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FreshmanClassSizeFeatureImage-1200x831.jpg)
Congested
By Melissa Krainer, Altoona Area High School
• September 20, 2023

Pulse of the People: Iran’s resistance, one year after Mahsa Amini
By Hima Thota, The Harker Upper School
• September 20, 2023

The RecPASS program: A success story for working mothers
By Katya Luzarraga and Nadya Chase
• September 19, 2023

Coping With Physics Teacher Loss
By Grace Shafer, Robinson High School - FL
• September 19, 2023
“This is something we’ll remember for the rest of our lives”: UNC-Chapel Hill faces deadly shooting
By Zeba Hussaini, Green Hope High School
• September 19, 2023

Are We Running Out of Space? Questions Arise as Class Sizes Grow
By Scarlet Gitelson and Lyla Granich
• September 19, 2023

Science teacher’s passion motivates students
By Anisha Mandem, Prosper High School
• September 19, 2023

Everything’s bigger in Texas
By Jade Slaughter, Lewisville High School
• September 19, 2023

The five freedoms in the First
By Grace Lovejoy, McIntosh High School
• September 19, 2023

Fulton County takes national stage with historic Trump indictment
By Sierra Pape, Connie Erdozain, Diana Jachman, and Molly Thompson
• September 18, 2023

Spanish teacher starts 50th year of influencing others
By Sam Favela, Willis High School
• September 18, 2023

Mickey Rowe shares his story at Welcome Back Assembly
By Lucille Sanders, Carlmont High School
• September 18, 2023

When Will The Brunswick Rebuild Happen?
By Kylie Lancaster, Brunswick High School
• September 18, 2023

New Director of DEIB
By Harry Lowitz, Francis W. Parker School
• September 18, 2023

Democracy’s missing piece: Local and state elections suffer from voter apathy
By Tanay Pant, Metea Valley High School
• June 1, 2023

Ishan Junnarkar (’24) creates donation non-profit to aid community
By Ritika Ghosh, Amador Valley High School
• June 1, 2023
![The Manternach family spends a day at Gulf Shores, Alabama in 2009. Since Dana’s melanoma diagnosis in 2008, her family has paid more attention to sun care, especially during trips to the beach. “We take constant breaks. We try to reapply [sunscreen] every hour and a half to two hours,” Dana said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tanning-pic.png)
The dangers of UV
By Sonya Sud, Lafayette High School
• June 1, 2023

Humans of Harker: Symphonic storytelling
By Katelyn Zhao and Chayce Milheim
• June 1, 2023

Leaving Behind a Legacy at La Salle, Ms. Mounsey Prepares To Depart
By Lillian Paugh and Lucy Loeb
• June 1, 2023
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