Joshua Wilson
Junior Joshua Wilson is 17 and a cross country runner. He is a staff reporter at HHS for Newsstreak, and it is also his first year in Newstreak. In his free time, he enjoys reading, playing frisbee and...
View ArticleLucie Rutherford
Lucie Rutherford is into her third year at HHS as well as the Newssreak staff. She is Print Editor-In-Chief and sees all of her other Newsstreakers as one big family. Lucie likes to think she speaks...
View ArticleYoutube now accessible on Chromebooks
At the beginning of the school year in September, all Freshman and Sophomores received Dell Chromebooks purchased with money from a grant. Until recently, though, students were not able to use YouTube...
View ArticleFear Forest makes a bigger scare in 2016
The cool, drizzly evening of Oct. 21, five of my friends and I braced ourselves to face the four-tenths mile long haunted woods trail of Fear Forest. Having gone and being pleased with it last year, we...
View ArticleNew tardy policy targets extracurricular participants
With a new school year comes new and improved school policies, including the newly revised tardy policy. In case you didn’t know, this policy says that if a student has four unexcused tardies to a...
View ArticleWater is unquestionably wet
The wetness of water (other synonyms include damp, moist, soaked, all essentially have the same meaning) has been a subject of controversy ever since the first neanderthal noticed the cold, damp...
View ArticleFrye finds love in driving buses
Students involved in sports, band and various field trips who use a bus to travel have had 77 year-old David Frye as a bus driver. Frye has been driving bus for the high school for three years. “I...
View ArticleWhy you should take a gap year
I want to take a gap year between high school and college to learn more about myself (which sounds very cliche but is true), work helping other people through a program, like Serving and Learning...
View ArticleVolleyball vs Fort Defiance
Last night the girls volleyball teams faced the Fort Defiance Indians in a district game. Junior varsity lost in straight sets 2-0 before the varsity took the court for senior night. The final home...
View ArticleBand performs at Parade of Champions
The Parade of Champions band competition is held by JMU and takes place at their Bridgeforth stadium. On Saturday Oct. 22, 2016, the Marching Bluestreak band competed in the 4A class and placed 5th....
View ArticleDECA club plans upcoming boys volleyball tournament
HHS DECA will be holding the annual boys volleyball tournament on Nov. 2. The tournament is an annual fundraiser for the club, to help pay for materials and cost of trips including the state...
View ArticleSneaker Con 2016
On Saturday Oct. 5, sneakerheads and vendors from all over the east coast descended on National Harbor, Maryland for Sneaker Con DC. The event had around 200 vendors, thousands of attendees and over...
View ArticleSneaker Con is one-of-a-kind experience
Sneaker Con is the world’s biggest sneaker convention, and it features all sorts of vendors from sneakers to accessories. I just attended my fourth Washington DC convention as a vendor, and once again...
View ArticleMars: The next step in exploration
It’s the year 2030, you wake up to a red monochrome landscape, deep craters sit just outside your window and the sun beats down without obstruction from clouds. Welcome to Mars. You’ve just become one...
View ArticleUpton holds powerful connection with band
Band director Daniel Upton has had a part in directing band ever since he started working at HHS five years ago. Upton’s love for music started when he was very young, but he didn’t always want to be a...
View ArticleAll fears are irrational
You can’t help it; the fear that’s sinking in, leaving you paralyzed. It’s the kind that seeps into every beat of your heart, every pore in your skin, every crack in your composure. No matter how hard...
View ArticleThomas Harrison finds success at VTA
Not only was the high school one act ‘That was Then’ successful at VTA, but so was Thomas Harrison’s one act play ‘937.’ Matt Schaeffer, a seventh grader in the one act, was astounded at how well they...
View ArticleMarching band performs in Veteran’s Day Parade
A tradition that strikes many, who have fought or have loved ones who have fought in the military, emotionally returned for its seventh year downtown. The marching band performed in the parade, as...
View ArticleThat is not your friend…
It seems like a day doesn’t go by when I don’t hear someone calling another person fake. Yes, I agree there are some phony people in the world who do shady things. Sadly, we often call those people our...
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