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Archive for the ‘Focus’ Category
New programs for ‘those who will not be forgotten’
by Megan Jones, Focus Editor In the past year, Hersey High School experienced three suicides by their own students. Due to these events, new projects are being created in order to spread awareness and remember those who have taken their lives. Carly Jordan Bell, Gina Fasolo, and Melissa Hanahan, juniors, created bracelets from , a [...]
Share on FacebookTurf affects athletic groups
by Megan Jones, Focus Editor, and Brianna Bitout, Staff Reporter Physical Education The physical education classes are rarely able to access the stadium fields during outdoor classes due to bad field conditions. Also the natural grass needs time to rest between sporting events, therefore physical education classes have not been a top priority group to [...]
Share on FacebookMamalio calls herself “shy, crazy, dependant”
by Megan Jones, Focus Editor Jessica Mamalio, freshman, can typically be found hanging out with friends, playing an instrument, or working on the tech crew. Mamalio specifically plays the guitar and piano. Mamalio has been playing guitar for about 11 years and guitar for one year. “If I hear a song I really like then [...]
Share on FacebookQ&A with Debra Swierczek, Dean of Students
Interview by Brianna Bitout Who decides what rules go into the handbook? The handbook is an evolving process, and so when I came to Wheeling 18 years ago, there was a handbook in place. And so, each year, we take what’s there and then determine what needs to be modified. And every year, there are [...]
Share on FacebookQ&A with Láz López, Principal
Interview by Daniel Malsomm, Editor-in-Chief *Some answers have been edited for length What is STEM education, and what does it encompass? STEM really represents the broader identification that many people have used that as an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, and the fact that that represents a focus both from an [...]
Share on FacebookSkenandore matches colored contacts with clothes
by Rosalie Chan, Staff Reporter Keira Skenandore, freshman, washes her hands and opens her contact lens case. She takes out a colored contact, which has tiny green and aqua dots surrounding the clear center. She wanted to wear blue converse shoes today, and she decided that green eyes would match her shoes. Skenandore has astigmatism [...]
Share on FacebookPregnancy brings change to both staff, students
Montesinos, Salinas help each other with pregnancy By Mallorie Bromer, Asst. Feature Editor Not only have Joanna Montesinos, sophomore, and Alexis Salinas, senior, been friends for about five years, but both of them became pregnant around the same time in 2008. “(Alexis) offers me if I need anything. Even when I don’t ask her she [...]
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