Archives for April 2017

Suburban thespians spring into production

by Drue Allison The York Suburban Theater club will be putting on a production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. This is the humorous story of people adopting alternate selves in order to escape social obligations. The play opens tonight at 7:30 and will play on April 28 and … [Read more...]

United Airlines Creates Passenger Disaster

by Sumahid Chowdhury On what could have been a normal procedure, one of the planes of United Airlines overbooked their seats, denying some passengers their flight. Auctions for giving up the seats were first set at four-hundred dollars, then eight-hundred, until United decided that a computer … [Read more...]

New Tunes for April

by Maddie Levans As the year goes on, more and more artist are releasing chart-topping singles and cohesive albums. At the end of March, Canadian rapper Drake debuted More Life, a 22-track long album featuring prominent artists such as Quavo, of Migos, Young Thug, and Kanye West. Various tracks … [Read more...]

MTV eliminates gender categories for awards

by Drue Allison The long-time television and movie awards for MTV is fast approaching and set to air on May 7th. The event will be hosted by Adam Devine, who is known for his various roles in movies such as Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2 along with the TV show Workaholics. This year, the … [Read more...]

Facebook murderer Steve Stephenson commits suicide

by Madeline Abel Steve Stephenson, a 37 year old man from Cleveland, has become the center of news in the last couple of days. According to BBC, it all started on Easter Sunday, April 16, when Stephenson posted a video of himself on Facebook killing an innocent man walking home from his holiday … [Read more...]

Don Rickles Dies at 90

by Drue Allison Comedic legend Don Rickles, better known by generation X in his role as Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story trilogy, has died after kidney failure. Rickles has been a main member of the Rat Pack since Frank Sinatra introduced him to the group in the late 1950s and early 1960s. … [Read more...]

Students see Wicked on Broadway

By Ty Avery On Wednesday, March 29 English teachers Marcella Oathout and Kelly Paraskevakos took their senior classes along with a few of their junior classes up to the city that never sleeps to see the magic of Broadway live. They journeyed four long hours before they reached their … [Read more...]

Carter Fry channels Coppola

by Maddie Levans Carter Fry: junior, tennis player, sandwich maker, and filmmaker. For the past eight years, Fry has been making short films and vlogs. When he was nine, he began documenting family trips and vacations. “They were really for my grandma,” he said. “She loves them.” From then … [Read more...]

Student Journalists Get Principal Fired

By Madeline Abel According to the New York Times, high school journalism students in Kansas managed to make their recently hired principal resign. On March 6, 2017, Pittsburgh Community School in Kansas introduced their new principal, Amy Robertson. 17 year-old journalist student Maddie Baden … [Read more...]

Honey bees dying at alarming rate

by Julia Chojnacki The recent media has drawn attention to the fact that honey bees are dying at a substantially fast rate. A lot of people do not find the species dying to be a threat, but little do they know that the human population relies heavily on honey bees. Most plants rely on bees and … [Read more...]