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Super Bowl Review
Super Bowl Review
Liya Fried, Staff Writer • April 3, 2025

Background:  The Super Bowl is an annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. It began in 1967, and...

Spring Sports Update
Spring Sports Update
Jonah Solomon, Staff Writer • May 16, 2025

The SAVE act: A New Step in The Debate Over Voter Eligibility
Siri Rosenberg, Managing Editor • May 16, 2025

A controversial voting bill introduced in Congress is a nationwide debate. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility or the SAVE Act, introduced...

Proposed School Budget is Responsive to Community Concerns
Proposed School Budget is Responsive to Community Concerns
Orly Fishman, Staff Writer • May 16, 2025

Every year, as summer approaches, the Hastings community shows up at the Cochran Gym to cast their vote for or against the proposed school district...

Hastings High School’s Outlook on Elon Musk’s Recent Political Involvement
Hastings High School’s Outlook on Elon Musk’s Recent Political Involvement
Daniela Dolina, Staff Writer • April 3, 2025

He bought and personally renamed Twitter. He’s the owner of Tesla and SpaceX. He’s President Trump’s most famous associate, with the Department...

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Russia-Ukraine War: Three Years In
Ella Cajigao and Sage Wasserman April 3, 2025

As of February 24, the Russia-Ukraine war hit its three year mark. These past few years have taken a large toll on the Ukrainian economy and...

The Farragut Flood “Silver Lining”: Decreases in the Cost of the Capital Bond
Orly Fishman, Staff Writer • April 3, 2025

On the night of December 24, 2024, the Farragut Wing of the middle school flooded due to a cracked pipeline located in the attic of Farragut...

Next Year’s Phone Policy
Next Year’s Phone Policy
Kate Sobol and Emmy Taylor April 3, 2025

On Tuesday, January 21, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new statewide phone policy stating that all schools, kindergarten through...

Furniture at HHS: The Correlation Between Gender Norms and Physical Comfort
Eden Goldman-Wetzler and Daniela Dolina May 16, 2025

When students in Mr. Abrams’ English Honors class were asked to note patterns in the ways in which their peers were sitting, a trend became apparent: almost every female-identifying student sat with their legs crossed at the...

What’re You Doing After School? The Lack of Teen Third Places in Hastings
What’re You Doing After School? The Lack of Teen Third Places in Hastings
Frieda Belasco, Co-Editor-in-Chief • February 14, 2025

“To be honest, I don’t think there’s really a good third place [for teens in Hastings],” claimed Tyler Levan, a Hastings High School senior. Embedded into teen culture is the idea of “third places,” or informal...

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Op-Ed: Grammy Nominations
Anya Hart, Managing Editor • December 20, 2024

This year, we saw many established pop artists releasing new music. Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Beyonce, and Ariana Grande all had new records this year, along with an extreme surge in electropop music following the release of...

Op-Ed: Student Athletes’ Stressful Schedules
Op-Ed: Student Athletes’ Stressful Schedules
Maya Sanzel, Contributing Writer • December 20, 2024

The life of a student athlete is a busy one— balancing sports, family time, social life, and most importantly, school. (It’s student-athlete, not athlete-student!) Playing either a Varsity or JV sport while being a high school...