This story previously ran in our April 2023 print issue. “I felt angry, depressed, and kind of betrayed.” These emotions marked the experience of senior Jamie Doe* in grades five, eight, and nine, a time period during which food insecurity prevailed...

On Tuesday nearly 80 East Penn residents gathered at Macungie Memorial Hall to hear about critical race theory within the district – instead, they heard about low math scores, a decline in student life skills, and the overreach of teaching morals and...

This previously ran in our October 2021 print issue. The origins of Critical Race Theory can be traced back to the 1960s; however, recently the topic of CRT has become a fiery political debate between conservatives and liberals, making it more controversial...

Junior Rachel Herbine verbally committed to the Big Ten school the University of Iowa in August, joining her sister and pursuing her ambitions. Herbine began her field hockey career in first grade, starting in the LMYA league coached by high school...

On June 14, 2021, parents of Emmaus High School students filed a lawsuit against members of the Emmaus High School faculty. The lawsuit states that the plaintiffs, the Brophys, were discriminated against among other things. Currently, the lawsuit has...

COVID — it’s a scary word, isn’t it? There’s a specific connotation that comes to mind when one hears those dreaded words: “They have COVID.” Images of hospitals, overflowing with patients as doctors struggle with a shortage of essential...

Kelly Bower, the Emmaus High School librarian, is starting a Reading Olympics team this school year. Reading Olympics is a club where students read and discuss books given to them on a list, and then in the spring, they compete against other high schools...

For most high school seniors, the summer going into their final year is filled with various college visits, tons of SAT/ACT prep, and the beginning of the strenuous task of college applications; however, for the class of 2021, this year looks more different...

Origami: the Japanese art or process of folding squares of paper into representational shapes. Hikari Inaoka has been practicing the art of origami since elementary school. From the time he was young, his grandparents in Japan would send him origami...