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Senior Internships: What Are They?
Senior Internships: What Are They?
Sofia Eliasi, Managing Editor • April 3, 2025
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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...

Winter Sports Wrap-Up
Winter Sports Wrap-Up
Bobby Jennemann, Treasurer • April 3, 2025

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

Shortly after Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States, the federal government began implementing historically high numbers...

Source: PBS
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...

Massive Federal Job Cuts: The Impact of DOGE on Local Communities and Education
Massive Federal Job Cuts: The Impact of DOGE on Local Communities and Education
Siri Rosenberg, Managing Editor • April 3, 2025

Shortly after Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States, the federal government began implementing historically high numbers...

The Avian Flu
The Avian Flu
Ariela Eliasi, Contributing Writer • April 3, 2025

What is the current situation? Bird flu is widespread in birds globally and is causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, even causing several...

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...

Source: GRAMMY.com
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...

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-kamala-harris-birthday-message-1971949
Op-Ed: The Importance of the 2024 Election
Kate Sobol and Emmy Taylor October 31, 2024

On November 5, 2024, Americans across the country will flood the polls to cast their vote for one of the two radically different presidential candidates: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. The outcome of this year’s presidential...