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Is the SAT Worth It

Is the SAT Worth It

Phalyn Renderer, Junior Editor April 12, 2024

This opinion may vary based on the person participating. For years, the answer has been yes, hands down. But as time has passed and COVID has become a factor, many more schools have answered: “Not necessarily."...

Easter

Riley Kinzer, Staff Writer April 12, 2024

Easter is a Christian festival that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is one of the most important religious holidays in the Christian calendar and is observed by millions of people around...

Mike Johnson

Sydney Moriarty, Senior Editor in Chief January 19, 2024

After three weeks of trying and failing to get a new Speaker of the House after getting rid of Kevin McCarthy, we got Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson, not just one out of hundreds of people with the same name,...

Niki Haley

Sydney Moriarty, Senior Editor in Chief January 18, 2024

I knew that after my Ron DeSantis article, I just had to take this story especially because in semi-recently polls (October 2023), Niki Haley was outranking Ron DeSantis in Republican polls and it’s...

School Shootings

Riley Kinzer, Staff Writer January 16, 2024

Over the past three years, there’s been a large increase in the number of shootings happening on school grounds. That number has nearly tripled since 2020. There were at least 346 school shootings during...

Snow Days

Aidan Garcia, Senior Editor-in-Chief January 9, 2024

At this point, snow days seem like a distant memory from our elementary days. We used to tally the snow by the feet and snow days by the weeks. Snow would arrive by late November and we'd have intermittent...

Yondr Pouches: Yes or No?

Yondr Pouches: Yes or No?

Charlotte Esko, Staff Writer November 8, 2023

As of Monday, October 16, Yondr pouches were distributed throughout the student body and staff at Wahconah Regional High School. Prior to this day, many complaints were directed towards the staff of WRHS....

Is “TRIBE” Offensive?

Sydney Moriarty November 8, 2023

I honestly don’t really know the answer, so I spent some solid time researching this one. However, when doing research, unsurprisingly, it was very difficult to find the “correct” answer. While as...

Transgenderism Under Attack

Nicholas Evans, News Section Editor May 10, 2023

Transgenderism - the umbrella term for expressing oneself or completely identifying with the opposite sex assigned at birth - is being purged on a national scale in the form of recently passed bills in...

Book review (Why you shouldn’t read Plato’s Republic)

Madeline Beatty, StaffWriter April 11, 2023

“The Republic” by Plato. This was probably one of the worst books I have ever read. It was dense, and the footnotes were very unhelpful. Now, I like to think I’m a good reader and I can comprehend...

What Twitter (and social media) have to do with the 2024 election

Madeline Beatty, StaffWriter April 11, 2023

Twitter, once a platform for sharing news and information, is now a wasteland of conspiracy theories and distasteful celebrity tweets. One of the most significant examples of the latter is when former...

Ron DeSantis

Sydney Moriarty, Junior Editor in Chief April 11, 2023

Ron DeSantis became the governor of Florida January 8th, 2019. Notable things he has done since then have been creating the Don’t Say Gay law, kidnapping immigrants, banning the AP African studies course,...

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