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SCA holds board member elections, 2024-2025 year
Jumana Alsaadoon, Online Managing Editor • April 16, 2024

The Student Council Association (SCA) is opening its annual board member elections. Students who are interested in running for a position need...

Envirothon team competes local competition
Jumana Alsaadoon, Online Managing Editor • April 16, 2024

The Envirothon team competed and placed third in forestry and a special topic, first in wildlife, first in the oral presentation and first place...

New mascot, Bolt, cheers with the student section during a varsity volleyball game.
Bolt thunders onto scene as new mascot
Phoenix Seidel, Page Editor • October 3, 2024

This year a new mascot, Bolt, joined our school. Bolt is a red, white and blue lightning bolt to match our school colors. Students were able to sign up to be Bolt the Blue Streak. Three to five students were selected to perform the duties of Bolt during the 2024-25 academic year. Each student will be assigned to work directly with a specific sports team. The students selected will also represent Harrisonburg High School at functions outside...

Change in school environment is evident
Elsie Corriston, Yearbook Editor • October 3, 2024
 Senior Filipo Toelau writes the formula on the board for his DE Statistics class. “My favorite class this year is probably DE Statistics because the class is challenging and it makes me actually work hard to complete assignments.” Toelau said.
Balancing act of school and sports
Jack Powers, Staff Reporter • October 9, 2024

After every long day of school, senior Filipo Toelau begins his practices, training, and after all of that homework. This is the reality for the nearly 7.8 million high school student athletes who manage the pressure of sports with the workload of a full high school schedule, according to a 2023 article from The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).  “After school, I go straight to the athletic trainer’s room...

Graphic by junior Farrah King-Hughes
OPINION: Fixations ruin people
Farrah King-Hughes, Page Editor • February 26, 2024

Constantly overthinking a topic, is not a rare concept. However, there is a line between healthy overthinking and obsession.  Obsession is never healthy, no matter how much a person may try to defend themself. If it gets to the point that someone sounds desperate to get their point across then it has reached the level of fixation. There are many ways people can define the word, Oxford Languages defines fixation as “having an obsessive...

A Church in Harrisonburg holds a potluck to break their fast after Ramadan.
Ramadan: The holiest month of the year
Hind Mousa, Guest Writer • April 28, 2023
Journalism is found in so many different aspects of your everyday life that you may not even realize.
Why is journalism so important?
Adrian Kavazovic, Print Editor-in-Chief • September 8, 2022
Freshman Kaylen De Los Santos cheering in JV football, Aug.30.
Black student-athletes share experiences, expectations in sports
Jumana Alsaadoon, Online Managing Editor • March 19, 2024

According to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) demographics database in 2022, Black student-athletes were 16% of the student-athlete population. Black athletes continue to be the minority in most sports teams. Being the only Black athlete in a sport can push the student to feel...

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The Newsstreak Issue 5 Vol.93 Senior Issue 2024 by Jumana AlSaadoon on Scribd

Riley Butler attempts a shot.
HHS Hosts Unified Basketball Game
Brady Shifflett, Photography Editor • October 10, 2024

Girls cross country team talks to other teams after their race
Girls cross country runs at their home meet
Rayna Hostetler, Staff Reporter • October 9, 2024

Sophomore Brooke Saunders races to the finish line at Thomas Harrison.
Girls Cross Country at Thomas Harrison 10/2
Mckenna Dayton, Staff Reporter • October 8, 2024

Jan.8 the first Rockingham County School (RCPS) board meeting of the year was held at Rockingham County Administration Center. In the meeting the board announced the banning of 57 books which one of the board members, Hollie Cave had created. GRAPHIC BY JIAYI LI
Authors, community rally against school board banning 57 books
Jumana Alsaadoon, Online Managing Editor
Junior Joshua Saldana trains with the AD Alcorcon Academy in Spain. "The experience has been like no other," Saldana said.
Saldana scouted by Spanish Academy, trains with Alcorcon in Spain
Clare Kirwan, Head Editor-in-Chief
Recent Sports Results
Sophomore Sammy Abebe listens to his music.
Abebe produces and publishes music
Farrah King-Hughes, Page Editor • March 21, 2024

Sophomore Sammy Abebe started creating music in seventh grade. Music is a fun and inspirational outlet for Sammy. He likes producing his music...

The 81st Golden Globes awards ceremony took place Jan. 7. The Globes have been honoring artists and professionals in film and television for the past 79 years. This year the broadcast flopped, but the awards held sweeps from "Oppenheimer," "The Bear" and "Succession."
Golden Globes winners announced 1/7, awards season commences
Clare Kirwan, Head Editor-in-Chief • January 8, 2024

The 81st Golden Globes Awards Ceremony aired all across the globe at 8p.m. EST, Sunday, Jan. 7 . The Golden Globes have recognized American and...

Rosasco compiled her realism and abstract artworks together in a collage.
Wilson Downtown Gallery helps restore Harrisonburg’s art culture
Camryn Johnson, Jiayi Li, and Isabel Lewis August 21, 2023

Tucked away in the mountainside of Virginia, the college town of Harrisonburg is in the process of revamping its community by uplifting the arts,...

Graphic designer and co-founder of Earth Surprise Murals, Matt Leech paints a mural on the side of the Explore More Discovery Museum. Photo courtesy of Matt Leech
The Man: Leech creates mural, graphics for downtown Harrisonburg
Jumana Alsaadoon and Clare Kirwan August 21, 2023

The art scene has taken Harrisonburg by storm in the past 15 years, according to Jenny Burden, the director of the Arts Council of the Valley....

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