Reporting by Jayla Jones, Willow Wright, Kayla Geouque Photography by Hannah Palmer The fan section returned to the Lenzer field bleachers for the first full Friday Night Lights experience since the run towards the 2019 States Championship. On Friday, August 27, 2021, eager students and football fans returned to Lenzer field to watch the Avonworth…
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Statewide Mask Mandate Starts Today
Reporting by Eleanor Boggess Today Governor Wolf had revealed his plans for the new mask mandate for schools, and daycares. Although this day of school might have been a regular day for the Avonworth district, the new mask mandate from Governor Wolf has affected many different schools and daycares. Order of the Acting…
Heavy Hurricane Season On The Way? Looking Ahead after Ida’s Impacts
Reporting by Jameson Cook, Marshall McCall, Jack Salsbury The hurricane-based forecast has had a large impact on Avonworth and our community over the past few weeks. Whether it was affecting sports or even everyday school life, people now feel relieved that the hurricane weather has since passed — or, at least, we hope so….
Cross Country Resets After Ida Rains On Early Season
After Hurricane Ida made landfall down south, her effects were definitely being felt here at Avonworth. Drenching rains led to many school sports cancellations as a result, including cross country. Tuesday’s meet at South Fayette was cancelled, and although practice still took take place on Wednesday, conditions were not ideal. “I mean, it was pretty…
9th Grade Class President Campaign Interview -Vice President Candidate Gbemi Odebode
The following is a transcript of an interview conduted through the Journalism 1 class by Kelly Kashaba and Maya Nusskern Q: Who is your campaign team? Gbemi Odebode: Our entire campaign team is obviously the person running for President, Airah Shafiq, me, running for Vice President, and our campaign manager, Kacey LaVelle. …
Galleries Mural Painted in 2021 Reflects Community
As the school year comes to a close, it is clear Avonworth has changed in many ways during our 180 days of time. One of the newest additions to the walls is the murals completed by Mrs. James’ Galleries Group. As part of one of the projects, I am excited to share a bit about…
Looking Forward to Summer 2021 – guest editorial by Cat Barie
I expect this summer to be more eventful than summer 2020. With everyone getting vaccinated I feel like a lot of mandates are going to be lifted. Already, as of May and early June, businesses are lifting their mask mandates, and earlier the CDC said that anyone who is fully vaccinated does not have to…
Students Looking Forward to Post-COVID Summer of 2021
Tuesday, June 8th, was the last Day 1 for the 2020-2021 school year — a year that featured four different schooling formats between August and June. The 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students of Journalism 1 headed out across the school to hear what students are excited to experience as Pennsylvania mask mandates end June…
Barbershop Quartet Stops By J2 End-Of-Year Cereal Party
On the last week for seniors in the 2020-2021 school year, Seniors Ben Nalavenko and Eli King joined juniors Killian Horigan and Peyton Bauer to sing “The Longest Time” by Billy Joel during the Journalism 2 class…which happened to be a end-of-year wacky cereal party, featuring Kellogg’s Peeps and Smorez cereals, joined by French Toast…
Trans Alum Shares His Avonworth Experiences
June is Pride Month! This is a month in which members of the LGBTQIA+ community are put into the spotlight as they fight for equity, acceptance, and the right to be themselves. But Pride doesn’t go away after June. I talked to Avonworth Alum Patrouious (pronounced Pa-troo-us) Achatz about his experience as a trans student…