The last few weeks of school usually consists of late mornings and early departures from school. However, at 6:20 a.m. on May 29, seniors Andrea Osinkosky and Sarah Earle left to attend the Regional Finals...

With only a week left in the 2018-19 school year, the scrambling to study and prepare for finals is well underway. However, in AP Physics, the usual silence of studying is absent. Instead, robotic buzzes...

Oct. 6 marks a day that will live with our generation in every contested law constitutional crisis for the next several decades. Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the ninth Supreme Court Justice after a...

The eerie sound of air conditioning whispers through the hallways. It’s now 10:15 p.m. at HHS, and the usual banter and sounds of life present during the school day are absent. The only other noise in...

It’s been a tough year for journalists both domestically and internationally. Fifty-three journalists were killed due to their persistence to protect the truth. Cartels in Mexico assassinated four journalists...

Bluestone Elementary School is the most expensive public school in Virginia per square foot, but during the design phase, its price tag was initially much more. The original design included a city-owned...

As the Shenandoah Valley Forensics League (ShenVaFL) season comes to a close, the debate team has began preparations for the final cumulative Tournament of Champions (TOC). The tournament consists of teams...

Sophomore Lenore Penrod performs her self-composed song.

Senior hosts Pierre Mbala and Farah Ragab introduce senior guitarist Aerious Kubin.

Junior Kelvin Lopez plays the saxophone, accompanied by senior drumming companion Alison Munoz.

Senior Alison Munoz plays the drums in the second act of the show.

Senior Aerious Kubin riffs his solo guitar part as the last act of the show.

Brandon Tamayo and Tatiana Machuca perform a 'popping' dance piece.

Tatiana Machuca portrays a doll in her dance piece.

Senior Eli Pena Robles sings the chorus to his rap song.

Senior Nina Andrews sings the last note in her solo performance.

Members of Project END perform their Purge based dance.

JMU's Alpha Theta Alpha chapter's step team visits and performs at the talent show.

The debate and forensics team traveled to Broadway High School Nov. 29 to compete in the second Shenandoah Valley Forensics League tournament of the season. The tournament was originally planned to take...

Freshman Micah Tongen prepares for his debate round.

Harrisonburg puts up a shot against Spotswood. To see more photos from the game, check back in a few days.

The All-District golf team has been dominated by boys for the past five years. Seeing a girl make the fifth or sixth seed is unusual and any seed higher is an outlier. Junior Jane Thompson is an outlier....

I’m furious at myself for waiting until Mac Miller died before I began listening to him regularly. The post-mourning bandwagon was moving too steadily for me not to jump on, so I went to his Spotify...

New teacher Roy Kelly speaks to senior Micah Yutzy during weightlifting class.

After overseeing eight schools and the conception of two new schools within his eight-year stint as HCPS’ superintendent, Scott Kizner has announced his resignation effective Sept. 1, 2018. Kizner has...

For the first time in near decades, the boys tennis team made a breakthrough unexpected win to the State quarterfinals. In the first round, they lost 6-0 in a default loss to Thomas Jefferson High School...

A team made of a majority of first and second year tennis players, most without professional training and most without any outside experience of tennis has made it to states. Against all the odds, the...

Ambience by junior Antonella D'Elia

Trash cans overflow and tables clutter with abandoned trays as all 1,600 students pour in and out of the cafeteria for their lunch shifts. Messiness tends to be a given for a high school cafeteria, but...

After spending almost his entire childhood life in England, Luke Gibson packed up his clothes, miscellaneous items and all of his memories and moved to an unknown world of Harrisonburg. Gibson, entirely...

Junior Fernando Posada drives his 2010 BMW 328i xDrive. Despite some close calls, Posada still enjoys driving. "Some would say it’s not safe, but I think it’s fun," Posada said. "It’s like a sport....

Senior Ezzulddin Yaseen returns a serve.

Sophomore Gabe Eshleman hits forehand volleys at the net.

Sophomore Gabe Eshleman hits forehand groundstrokes from the baseline.

Sophomore Ritt Culbreth hits forehand volleys.

Assistant coach and alumnus Alex Osinkosky hits with the other players.

Assistant coach Alex Osinkosky sets for a serve return.

Senior Michael Sy hits backhands from the baseline.

Sophomore Ritt Culbreth prepares for a volley from the baseline.

Athletic Director Darrell Wilson explains a passing drill to the team.

Sophomore Raghav Kharel switches during a practice match.

Sophomore Ritt Culbreth prepares to hit a forehand groundstroke from the baseline.

Each year, ten up and coming rappers are selected to participate in the XXL Freshman Freestyle, established in 2007 by XXL Magazine. The event is known for jumpstarting careers of rappers such as Kid Cudi...

One Xanax bar contains two milligrams of the antidepressant medication alprazolam. One Xanax bar can fit in any pocket and be smuggled practically anywhere. One Xanax bar in combination with the wrong...

As junior Jack Fleming rounds a turn in the the University Park bus loop, he kicks out the tail end of his longboard and comes to a screeching stop, leaving four white wheel trails rubbed into the pavement....

High schoolers littered the Lawn of the University of Virginia Dec. 1 for the second annual Cavalier Clash debate tournament. The competition was an invitational meet with schools from Virginia and Maryland...

While the rest of Harrisonburg slept, 13 students gathered at 4:00 a.m. in the brisk cold at HHS awaiting for their escort to Dulles airport in Washington D.C. These 13 students were members of the Newsstreak...

Travis Scott is the single best rapper of our generation. So is Kendrick Lamar and so is A$AP Ferg, Lil Pump, etc. No matter how strenuously you argue, you will (unfortunately) never be able to say that...

After the end of the official season and the transition to the post season, football players reminisce about their favorite memories from their experience, on and off the field.