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Sophomore Henry Hermess dragster design won first place at the regional TSA competition.

TSA provides leadership, STEM opportunities for Hermes

Lucas Thompson, Staff Reporter March 19, 2019

Many students at Harrisonburg High School have different ways they seek extra-curricular activities as well as entertainment. For sophomore Henry Hermes, the HHS TSA chapter is where he finds both of these....

Fine Arts Coordinator J.R. Snow instructs the a cappella group Snowcapella on their singing technique. Snow wasnt able to lead the group last year due to an injury, but theyre back for this year.

Snowcapella returns, rehearsals begin

Noah Siderhurst, Editor-in-Chief March 18, 2019

After a one-year hiatus, Snowcapella is back. Fine arts coordinator J.R. Snow, who leads the a cappella group, wasn’t out of school for much of last year with an injury, but he’s back this year and...

Junior Tatiana Machuca-Rodriguez launches her YouTube channel after placing first at the Black Student Union talent show earlier this year. The positive reviews from the audience and judges inspired Machuca-Rodriguez to share her dance skills with the world through YouTube.

Machuca-Rodriguez launches YouTube channel, pursues dance career

Ashley Iscoa, Page Editor March 18, 2019

It all started when junior Tatiana Machuca-Rodriguez entered the stage on the night of the Black Student Union Talent show. “A lot of people commented really positive things about my BSU performance,”...

Senior Marena Benton attends a BTS concert with her three friends Julia Inouye, Anne Penrod and Val Hantke.

Benton expresses love for K-pop boy band BTS

Caleb Goss, Visual Content Editor in Chief March 6, 2019

Over the course of five years, K-Pop group Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) has accumulated over 34.2 million fans on social media. This comes after the success of three studio albums and a series of sold out...

Wendy Pendleton shows off her Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

Pendleton returns to teaching, keeping roots in dog training

Owen Stewart, Sports Editor March 6, 2019

When the second semester began in January, there was a new face in the Summit Academy science department. Wendy Pendleton began her work at HHS after having not taught since 2010. During those years, Pendleton...

Senior Valeri Krasheninnikov spends time in Israel with her family. Valeri Krasheninnikov was born in Israel and moved to the United States five years ago. She currently is fluent in Hebrew, Russian and English.

Krasheninnikov acquires multiple languages, learns more as hobby

Nyah Phengsitthy, Editor-in-Chief March 5, 2019

Russian at home, English at school and Hebrew in public. One of the toughest things senior Valeri Krasheninnikov has ever done is equally keep up with those three languages. Krasheninnikov would say...

Juniors Iris Cessna, Sarah Deloney and two other students from Massanutten Regional Governors School create a model of their proposed idea for revamping the downtown library. The assigned project was to choose a a building and try to make it more environmentally friendly.

Deloney, Cessna propose green project for downtown library, plan to showcase model

Nyah Phengsitthy, Editor-in-Chief March 1, 2019

The idea of having LED lights, cork flooring, double glazed windows and a green wall in the downtown library would make the building more environmentally friendly. Created by juniors Sarah Deloney,...

Freshman Jordan Perez knows English, Spanish and French. “My whole family speaks Spanish, so I just kind of learned it as I grew up, and French has always sounded really cool to me,” Perez said.

Mansoor, Perez discuss benefits of being trilingual

Gabriel Romero, Staff Reporter March 1, 2019

According to the Virginia Department of Education, 43.3% of HCPS students are English Language Learners or students who are in a language class. With that statistic, it's not hard to imagine that many...

Sophomores Dorothy Yates and Chloe Nichols share much of their life through video on their YouTube channel.

Yates, Nichols capture memories beyond pictures through vlogging

Nyah Phengsitthy, Editor-in-Chief February 27, 2019

It was at the beginning of gymnastics season when sophomores Dorothy Yates and Chloe Nichols decided they wanted to share the craziest moments of their lives with the world. Aiming for more than just...

LGBTQ

Campbell finds mostly welcoming community in coming out

Ashley Iscoa, Page Editor February 27, 2019

As the years go by, things change and grow. For sophomore Grayson Campbell, one of these changes was sexual orientation. Campbell transferred from a private christian school to Thomas Harrison Middle...

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