Author: Lindsay Filgas

  • Winter Sports Wrap-Up

    Boys’ Soccer “Knowing that a banner with my team and all of our names will be up at our school means a lot to me,” said Isaiah Garza, sophomore. “This was the most memorable season of my soccer career by far.”  Varsity: 6-3-1 JV: 7-1-1 Frosh/Soph: 7-0-0 Girls’ Soccer “We connected, which definitely showed on the field, and…

  • Singing Their Way to Seattle

    The Seattle-bound choir singers, side-by-side with a magician and a hypnotist, performed in the Variety Show on Feb. 21 to raise money for the choir’s trip to Washington to compete in the Heritage Festival. The Heritage Festival is a competition that showcases the talents of choirs from across the country. “This is going to…

  • Old Music, New Success

    A competitive adult bagpipe band is the last thing you’d expect to find in a high school cafeteria in the middle of the night. But if you came to campus at the right time, that’s exactly what you’d see. 20 members of the Pacific Coast Highlanders get together every Thursday night in the NPHS…

  • Baseball’s Christmas Tree Lot is a Home Run

    Between Nov. 29 and Dec. 21, more than one thousand Christmas trees made their way to the parking lot of the Newbury Park Library for the baseball team’s 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lot. Every year, team members, coaches, and parents work to sell and deliver Christmas trees to raise money for the Baseball Boosters.…

  • Strings classes dazzle at first concert of the year

    The Chamber ensemble performed for the first time alongside the concert strings and strings classes at the Winter Concert in the Performing Arts Center on Dec.4. The strings orchestra played five pieces and the smaller, advanced chamber and concert strings groups played pieces by Ravel and Vivaldi separately. The concert also featured the Sycamore…

  • Marching band: A force to be reckoned with

    “These forces are working behind the scenes to create everything that we see, hear, feel, and experience … our show is called ‘The Fabric of Reality’,” said Dennis Crystal, director of the marching band. The 68-student marching band, run by Crystal, spent their four-month season creating a show to perform at competitions. The theme…

  • Surprise, Surprise! Mariana de Maille named a national finalist for the Wendy’s High School Heisman Scholarship

    “We were sitting in class and there was a knock on the door,” said Mariana de Maillé, senior. “And in walks some strangers I didn’t recognize, along with our principal and some of our other administrators, my mom, and a lady dressed up like Wendy (from the fast food chain).” De Maillé was chosen…

  • A whole new world: foreign exchange students come to campus

    Traveling to a foreign country for a year, attending a new school, and living with a family you have never met can be daunting. But every year, students all over the world, like juniors Louise Lisra and Darleen Hunziker, take on this challenge. This year, Lisra and Hunziker joined the EF (Education First) foreign…

  • Holly Maine competes in Lifesaving World Championships

    “It was an experience of a lifetime,” said sophomore Holly Maine. This year, Maine joined the US youth team to compete in the Lifesaving World Championships, an international event that brings youth and adult teams from all over the world to compete in lifeguard simulations Teams traveled to France on Sept. 16 to compete…

  • Are Teens too dependent on cell phones?

    Seeing a teenager off their phone is a rare sight. It’s safe to say that cell phones have changed dramatically since the first mobile phone was created, and this has sparked an equal change in the way many people live. No more sitting around the home phone, awaiting a call. Now, you can be…