Seniors Zac McDowell and Noah Donovan didn’t stick to the norm when trying to find a way to help a local family stricken with a tragic event. On March 9th, 2017, both students of Avonworth High School directed a Dodgeball Tournament, a fundraiser for the Milbert family, who recently lost their daughter and their home…
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…
New Assistant Principal Is Familiar Face For Class of 2017
Mr. Dave Thomas was announced as the new assistant principal for both the middle school and the high school according to press release from the district on Monday, February 6th. As for the graduating class of 2017, many affectionately recall Thomas first coming to Avonworth as their 4th grade math and science teacher in 2008….
Movie Review – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: “So many limbs were cut off it was insane”
Living in the shadow of its more popular video game, virtual reality compatible counterpart, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was very underwhelming. Lacking the backbone of already established characters from the videogames to carry it through its playtime, this spineless monstrosity flopped with fans more than a lickers tounge. One good thing about this ideration…
Putting 2 Hour Delay Frustrations In Perspective
In the distant past, the 1970s, schools functioned much differently than they do today. Prior to the creation of cellphones, students had to worry about passing notes, and falling off dinosaurs (not really). Where many things have changed over the years, others have not, such as still using pencils, and Avonworth’s inability to cancel 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…
Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Third Progressive Masterpiece of “The Stage”
“Sunny Disposition” is the third track of Avenged Sevenfold’s recent album, The Stage. Or no wait… I should say that “Sunny Disposition” is the third masterpiece of Avenged Sevenfold’s collage of progressive thrash metal epicness, The Stage. This song takes on a lyrical concept of nuclear warfare. It’s especially found as evident in chorus 1,…
Outfield Changes for Pirates A Good Move
With Spring Training coming up in the next couple weeks the Pittsburgh Pirates have made a major change before they pack their bags and go to Florida. It’s that franchise player Andrew McCutchen is going to shift from center field to right field, which McCutchen seems to have taken the shift well considering he posted…
Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Avenged Sevenfold’s “The Stage” Part II
Well, Avenged Sevenfold’s album released earlier this fall, and there was misleading info about this album prior to its release. I want to set the record straight before I talk about more released music by these guys. First of all, it has a surprise release on October 28, 2016. Not on December 9, 2016 as…