The Welcome Back Assembly on Friday, August 25th, 2017 remained relatively unaltered from years past, despite noticeable changes at the high school such as the 8 AM start time, Chromebooks for every student, and two lunch periods instead of three. The band enthusiastically played its latest marching program, featuring Michael Jackson songs like “Beat It”,…
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Battle of the Bands Preview 2017
At the end of the week, hours before the 2nd Battle of the Bands at Avonworth High School starts at 7 PM on Friday, May 12th, Avonworth’s own Mayview answered a few questions in between performing two songs off their upcoming EP. Bassist and songwriter Kimmy Keener, keytar/keyboard/vocalist Alex Domencic and guitarist Tucker Yovetich talked about…
Suggestions, Comments, and Corrections – May 2017 Edition
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Take Your Child To Work Day 2017 – Photo Gallery
A glimpse of some of the younger visitors to the high school on Thursday, April 27th, who visited for Take Your Child To Work day run by National Honors Society. Mrs. Realsono, Mrs. Hart, Mr. Cario, Mrs. Reagle, Mrs. Swaney, and Mr. Tena are pictured with some or all of their children who visited. A…
Suggestions, Comments, and Corrections – March 2017 Edition
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Holocaust Survivor Tells New Generation Her Story
Returning after almost ten years since her last visit, Marion Lazan, who survived over a year in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War 2, spoke to a filled auditorium of attentive students from 8th through 12th grade about her story of survival. The hour long assembly remained captivating for the large majority…
Friday, February 17th – Life Inside and Outside AHS Photo Gallery
The halls were quiet throughout this warm Friday in February leading into a long weekend for students. 40% of seniors were absent due to a ‘skip day’, leaving the school at 85% capacity. Journalism 2 students Caitie Bellotti, Isabel Thompson and Ryan Kreutzer spent part of 8th period photographing around and outside the high school…
Quick Power Outages Interrupt 8th Period
Two power outages occurred during 8th period on Wednesday, February 15th. Both were short outages, the first happening close to 2 PM and lasting close to five minutes. Power gradually returned, but the second and final outage occurred around 2:05 and lasted for at most two minutes. Duquesne Light’s website did not show large reports of…