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Students “Speaking Beautiful” Recently, Dove has created a campaign called #SpeakBeautiful, in which they are trying to create a more positive atmosphere online by putting a stop to people posting hateful messages about themselves and others....
February recap: Muslim Student Association holds first-ever Hijab Day Challenge The Muslim Student Association held their first-ever Hijab Day Challenge on Feb. 20, challenging girls to wear a hijab, the Muslim headscarf and full body covering, for a...
Day by day, week by week, school can become a boring, recurrent cycle. That is…until spirit week. Hosted by Student Council, five days of costumes, decorations, and school spirit made up the second spirit week, the last of this year. To show school...
Looking back at February SPORTS Basketball On Sat. Feb 14, Lake Central’s varsity girls’ basketball team beat East Chicago with a final score of 72 to 48. Although on Feb. 21 they fell to Merrillville for the Regional Title, the girls secured the...
This past Friday, students from the Porter County Career and Technical Center headed to the Chicago Auto Show. Three buses full of students, teachers, and friends of the Career Center joined the trip to see what the auto show had to offer. The...
There are many stigmas associated with Hammond High School, with many people who go to Hammond High looked at as though they are setting themselves up for failure. But many of those teachers don’t feel this way, and one in particular is creating a...
CHS Debate Team Wins 24th Consecutive Title Chesterton High School has long upheld its tradition of raising strong debaters. Since the formation of the debate team in 1971, Chesterton High School has sent over 150 qualified students to compete at the...
Winter is coming: Students Dance the Night Away at the Annual Winter Formal Every year around January or February, Portage High School throws its first dance of the school year: Winter Formal. The girls get dolled up in their dresses and the boys...
Theater Company puts on Student Directed Play The theater company performed their winter play, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, last week. Seniors Allison Hemingway and Hayley Kwasniewski both student direct this play. Allison, who has been a member of...
Virtual Online Days Northwest Indiana tends to hit hard when they get snow which usually results in the closing of school. That leads to snow make up days which most kids dislike. At Boone Grove they've come up with an alternative plan. Instead of...