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Category: School Life
Parks and Devastation Tour is One to Remember
A packed house, moshing, crowd surfing, and a human sized hamster ball set off the first show of A Day to Remember’s “Parks and Devastation Tour” with a bang. A line started forming at the early hour of 9 am and once everyone was packed inside both the pit and lawn it was near impossible…
Penn State Sanctions Eased; NCAA Still Must Do More
Just yesterday, the NCAA lifted its postseason ban on Penn State University’s football program, – effective immediately. They eradicated the scholarship reduction as well for next football season. About a year ago, I wrote extensively on this subject, and even began a petition to ease the punishments on Penn State – you can read this…
New Notes, New Moves, New Faces: 2014 Welcome Back Assembly coverage by Journalism 1 Class
On Friday, August 29th, 2014, about 350 students gathered in the auditorium to see and hear about the handful of changes at Avonworth High School. Students entered the auditorium to the sounds of the AHS marching band led by new conductor Mr. Will Guess. A trumpet player and graduate of Penn Hills High School and Duquesne…
2014 an Intriguing Year for NFL Quarterbacks
With the NFL season approaching, ESPN Experts and NFL Insiders are voicing their opinions on who should start, what teams look the best in training camp and the preseason, and some are so ambitions to name a team who will win it all. This off-season has been especially intriguing in terms of the quarterback position,…
Paramore, Fall Out Boy and Mr. Jackson?
The winner of the avonews raffle of two tickets for the July 5th Paramore/Fall Out Boy concert was math teacher Mr. Jackson. He bought them for his daughter, and possibly may end up attending himself. The avonews staff thanks all those who entered the raffle and helped support printing the issue and paying for webhosting…
2013-2014 Awards Assembly
After the crowded hallways thinned out, Senior Max Graf began the 2013-14 awards assembly at 7:50 with a short speech, detailing how “we have grown both as individuals and as a school…” Dr. Lockette’s remarks followed, highlighting how “education truly is a community effort…this is truly an incredible community.” Cheers greeted his brief post-script, as…
Parade of Lights Review: Parade of Yikes by Jessica Keast
Parade of Lights is an upcoming four member band that defines their sound as “alt-electro.” Based in Los Angeles, the group recently released their first single “We’re the Kids” along with another earlier single “Golden” that you may have heard during the Winter Olympics. But as budding artists, they seem to be having the typical…
Dante’s Hockey Recap
Game 7 of the Semi-Conference Final series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New York Rangers was an exciting and low scoring event. With an outstanding performance by New Yorks’ goaltender Henrik Lundqvist in games 5,6,and 7 they advanced past Pittsburgh with 4-3 series win. I believe many changes for the Pittsburgh Penguins locker room…