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  • A Year in Review: NPHS Sports Highlights

    A Year in Review: NPHS Sports Highlights

    Whether they were scoring goals, shooting baskets or hitting home runs, this year our NPHS athletes took their victories by storm. Several teams made it to the early rounds of CIF, championships and overall dominated their respective fields. With so many monumental achievements sweeping our athletic program, we felt that a deeper look through…

  • NPHS music taste impacts generations

    NPHS music taste impacts generations

    It is the evening of Dec. 15, 1976 in Buffalo, New York. Kiss is playing at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium surrounded by thousands of fans for a night of Rock n’ Roll to recount the band’s debut album that was released only two years prior. Managing to bring people together for a single night…

  • NPHS graduates pursue unique pathways

    NPHS graduates pursue unique pathways

    Some members of Newbury Park’s Class of 2024 are electing to pursue alternative career options. Straying from the traditional path, these graduates plan to attend different forms of secondary education. An avid member of the dance team, Gracie Williams, senior, plans to attend Paul Mitchell cosmetology school in Sherman Oaks to become a hairdresser.…

  • Chipping away at campus free speech

    Chipping away at campus free speech

    Since the First Amendment passed in 1791, Americans have exercised their right to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Recently, nationwide university protests about the Israel-Hamas war have drawn attention to the most basic First Amendment rights: freedom of speech and assembly.  We have been taught that our opinions will be heard…

  • Statewide declining enrollment affects CVUSD

    Statewide declining enrollment affects CVUSD

    Worried whispers and discussions filled the campus when students and teachers began to hear whispers about a new policy that would cut extracurricular classes that had low enrollment. Honors digital video production, woodshop and IB music classes were all courses that students were especially worried about being cut. With concern running around the school,…

  • Spring movies launch a new film season

    Challengers In the past decade, director Luca Guadagnino has succeeded at making everything from peaches to cannibalism seem almost erotic. Now, he turns the mostly boring sport of tennis into a similarly sensual thrill ride in “Challengers,” his brand new film released on April 22. It follows the sprawling rivalry between two tennis players,…

  • Local businesses bring community together

    Local businesses bring community together

    D&G Blooms Recently there has been a severe lack in local small businesses, specifically ones with storefronts. However D&G Blooms, a local floral and gift shop, opened their storefront at the Kimber Plaza in February and is thriving while also supporting other local businesses. Leslie Spalinger, the owner of D&G Blooms, has been arranging…

  • The goodbye that I never thought would come

    The goodbye that I never thought would come

    From the age of two to the age of six, I shared a room with my sister. We lived at my grandparents’ house for the first three years, and she had the top bunk. Most of our nights were spent in my mom’s room with the pink walls. My grandma and grandpa would tell…

  • America celebrates the 2024 total solar eclipse

    America celebrates the 2024 total solar eclipse

    An out of world experience. That was what people around the world were looking for when they stood still peering up into the sky on April 8, 2024. The total eclipse, a phenomenon that lasts only four minutes and 30 seconds, was what drew people from across the globe to certain areas in America…

  • Shangri-La Industries accuses COF of stealing

    Shangri-La Industries accuses COF of stealing

    After months of embezzlement litigation from the State of California, Shangri-La Industries have shifted their blame by filing a lawsuit against Cody Holmes, the company’s recently fired chief financial advisor. The lawsuit accuses Holmes of misappropriating part of the $117 million in state funds, which was supposed to go towards low-cost housing and services…