Upon graduating from The Masters School in June, Eli West '23 knew he wanted to spend time in Israel, the "Holy Land", before heading to New York University to study Judaism. Since late August, West...

Archie Williams students close out the first grading period of the 2023-2024 school year. For the freshmen class of 2027, students begin to contemplate whether this new school is an improvement, tougher,...

Half of the country is projected to experience higher than normal temperatures for the season this week, with most of Missouri, including the St. Louis area, leaning above average, according to the National...

Google will on Oct. 23 impose restrictions on US News & World Report, The Washington Post, Grammarly, LitCharts, Google forms, Spotify and other websites that refuse to comply with Connecticut’s...

The colors of red, white, and blue, a symbol of patriotism, unfurled across the vast canvas of the bay’s skies. Throughout San Francisco, the ground shook as the Blue Angels, painted yellow and dark...

Starting this year, CollegeBoard is finally introducing Advanced Placement Precalculus – raising the question of whether or not Dougherty Valley High School should adopt the newest AP course. Why...

Seniors Sarah Faik and Chloe Gilmore, two of the Lincoln Environmental Justice Club co-presidents, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. with a group of Portland Public Schools (PPS) students. During the...

Many classrooms at Wadsworth High School have recycling bins that have been sitting full, untouched for weeks. With no recycling club, the question is posed, who will take over these overflowing bins? ...

On Oct. 5, Taste of West returned for the first time in two years. The event was hosted in the main gym where students could purchase a $15 ticket to taste foods from different vendors around the St. Louis...

It is July 20, 2012, and the deciding Game 5 of the National Basketball Association took place at the Kaseya Center between the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunders. With star-studded athletes scoring...

Whitman club Jews4Change attended a vigil at Congregation Har Shalom to show solidarity with Israel on Oct. 12. The vigil followed Hamas’ attacks on Israel that killed roughly 1,300 Israelis and captured...

From the menu of the restaurant down the street to the refrigerator that automatically generates a shopping list and depositing checks, everyday practices are now digitized. This digital age now includes...

Standardized testing can often be stressful for high school students, a feeling that was compounded by the technical difficulties experienced during the PSAT on Wednesday, Oct. 11. A glitch in Test...

A lengthy, multiple-choice assignment has just been handed out. Students immediately dash to their iPads in search for the answers on the Internet to finish with time to spare for their other assignments. In...

This year, the City of Pleasanton won the Helen Putnam Award for Excellence for its commitment to minimizing uniformed police response to non-criminal incidents related to mental health. “Through...

On October 5, New York Times best-selling author Dashka Slater visited Whitman to discuss her novel “Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed.”...

In the wake of the Israel-Hamas War, approximately 200 local residents gathered on Sunday, Oct. 8, in downtown Redwood City to protest attacks and voice their support for Israel.  Club Z, a local Jewish...

On the first day of school after a two-week-long Sukkot break, Shalhevet students and faculty gathered in the gym as one on Oct. 10 for davening and an assembly to acknowledge and process the tragedies...

At the end of the month, MHS will lose a custodian, leaving the building with only two janitors during the day and four at night. This total is compared to the five to six day custodians and 11 night custodians...

Jewish Club held an emergency meeting during lunch in Ahmanson Lecture Hall on Oct. 9 to discuss the recent attacks on Israel by Hamas — a Palestinian and Islamic militant group —that took place Oct....

Many have come to believe that COVID is a thing of the past, but that assumption is now being challenged. According to the New York Times, COVID hospitalizations have increased by roughly 30 percent in...

Both nationally and locally, blood centers have met difficulty trying to reach demands. Back in September, the Red Cross announced a 25% drop in their national supply of blood from early August, due to...

Patients all around the world, suffering from diseases ranging from anemia to cancer, require blood transfusions to stay alive. But what happens when the blood runs out? The American Red Cross announced...

Though the full moon is still days away, Johnson City’s Langston Centre filled with Chinese lanterns, traditional dishes, and cultural activity booths on Saturday in an early celebration of the upcoming...

When Kinkaid alumnus Mr. Canaan Estes, ‘23, flew to Jerusalem, Israel, for his gap year before college, he didn’t expect to be escaping a warzone some months later. Mr. Estes had been participating...

Trees snapped in half. Power out for days.  On the night of Thursday, Aug. 24, multiple tornadoes struck Northeast Ohio leaving rubble scattered all over the streets. A total of 12 tornadoes in...

When Sunnyvale parents Rosario Rivera and Claudia Camacho addressed the FUHSD Board of Trustees on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 19, both women made a point to thank the trustees for providing two-way...

On Thursday, Oct. 5, Spanish Honor Society (SHS) played Spanish bingo at Rock Creek Senior Living Center in Ankeny. Instead of just numbers, the bingo cards had color squares with designated numbers written...

Three class floats were found vandalized with racially charged graffiti last Friday morning, just hours before Cal High’s annual homecoming parade that was part of the school’s 50th anniversary celebration. ...

Students safely leaving their cars unattended in the school parking lot during the school day has not been an issue in recent years. However, with two stolen car cases on record this year in the span of...

Smoke covered skies, suffocating heat waves and displaced communities. The catastrophic effects of climate change have become increasingly pressing. This summer, Portland faced consecutive days of record-breaking...

It is 11:03 a.m. on Wednesday, August 23. For broadcast adviser, Katrina Berry-Ivy, it is just like any other second block. She helps her students edit, write, and proof their stories for their weekly...

Nine years old.  That is how old Philadelphia resident Anthony Samuels was when he saw his first shootout with his own eyes. But Samuels recalls that the violence did not end there.  “When I...

On August 8, 2023, a special election was held in all 88 counties in Ohio to decide whether Issue One would redefine how the state’s constitution is amended. Issue One set out to raise the percentage...

The Online Safety Bill, which regulates harassment, illicit content and encryption standards,  entered the final stages of approval in the U.K. Sept. 19, according to GOV.UK. The bill was developed over...

On Nov. 2, 2022, the town of Fairfax enacted two rent control ordinances with the goal of ensuring that renters do not get priced out of Fairfax. 36 percent of Fairfax rental households are low-income...

Head of School Judith Guild addressed students on September 20 during an impromptu all-school meeting, following the immediate discovery of a racial slur in one of the girls' bathrooms.  The reprehensible...

An anonymous Coppell High School senior enters the bathroom. Attempting to find an unoccupied stall, she peers under the stall door when she noticed the stall to the far right.  Under it are four pairs...

With every turn of the calendar to September, communities emphasize raising awareness for mental health and suicide prevention, an often overlooked and stigmatized topic usually kept in a lockbox in the...

On Tuesday, Aug. 8, Director of Bands Barbara Baker communicated to the Spirit of McIntosh Marching Band that the group's typical practice field was set to become the new baseball field later this...

In the first year of the all-new Advanced Computer class, students build hardware projects that are useful to the real world, gaining hands-on experience working on both the software and hardware fronts. ...

Since returning to school this fall, Montgomery County has seen an uptick in COVID-19 cases. Students have been out of school due to COVID and hospital admissions have increased slightly. MCPS Medical...

*Content Warning: This article contains mentions of drug overdose and death. After obtaining a multi-million dollar grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Santa Clara County...

Ten members from the robotics team will travel to Singapore Oct. 5-12 to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. The challenge is an international robotics competition where each nation is represented by...

In world history classes in the past, students were expected to be learning through a guided textbook. Ethnic Studies is a new world history course that focuses on groups who may have been underrepresented...

One hundred thirty-one dogs, many of them pregnant or with puppies, were taken in at the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center three weeks ago. The dogs were being held at a farm in unhealthy conditions....

It’s not every day that one can say they saved a life. But that day came for senior Connor Harling while he was caddying at the Knollwood Club on  June 27. Harling was on the Knollwood Golf Course...