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Meet the humans of Newbury Park
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Take a look at some of these Panthers and find out what they have to offer as a student at NPHS: Q: How has your time at NP impacted you? A: A lot of the classes here are really teaching you how to move through life. You have all these extra classes you can…
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Special Olympics brings the schools together
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On May 20, Newbury Park High School’s football field was overflowing with joy brought by the students who participated in this year’s annual Special Olympics. The event was organized by National Honors Society (NHS) and included over 100 athletes with disabilities from various Ventura County schools. Members of NHS set up activities including long…
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The Child Welfare System impacts youth nationally
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The child welfare system is overwhelmed. In this system, a minor who has been taken away from their biological parents is placed in an institution, group home, relative placement, or private home of a state certified caregiver. Those working to preserve the physical and emotional safety of youth are currently fighting a lack of…
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Threat of gun violence looms over community
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Across the United States of America, there is one issue that appears on the radio, in newspaper headlines and is broadcasted amongst news channels over and over. The impact on citizens of all ages, particularly children, in every state, is always outstanding, and over the past few decades, the frequency at which incidents of…
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Ukrainian refugees adjust to life in Thousand Oaks
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**Quotes from Yuliia Kurta have been translated by Danila Paskevic On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. As of May 2023, about 125,000 Ukranians have suffered casualties, and another 8.2 million citizens have been forced to flee, leaving everything behind to seek shelter in another country. Although this tragedy may seem a world away,…
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Learning to live without her
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My whole family loves Young Frankenstein, not because of Gene Wilder, but because of my mom’s impression of the monster horrendously singing “Puttin on the Ritz.” Every time the song came up, she would make herself and the rest of us laugh with her strained, goofy, out-of-tune singing. That impression is one of the…
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NPHS students get ready for their summers
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As the school year winds down to a close and students prepare for the summer, many are looking for interesting vacation spots away from the Conejo Valley. Some students are intent on visiting family, while others are just focused on leisure. Either way, the process of picking where to go can be a tough…
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Student one acts create laughter
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The theater department of the NPHS theater has achieved the seemingly impossible, proving that high school students are able to create hilarious and intriguing scenes, start to finish, without the help of an advisor. On May 13 and 14, the Student One Acts took place, featuring eight different scenes that were written and directed…
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Perpetual gun violence leads to desensitization
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“____ is in our thoughts and prayers.” Fill in the blank with any location that has been a victim of gun violence, and you might start to notice that we hear this phrase so often that we have become so comfortable with it, to the point where we almost expect it. Our flag is…
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Grieving through senior year
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On November 27, my dad passed away tragically in my living room. My mother and I gave him CPR for what felt like hours while my brother called 911, and we listened to the first responders work on keeping him alive for forty minutes before they pronounced him dead. He had been in and…