NCHS holds first-ever Media Day
College admissions officers give seniors advice on the application process
Should AP & Honors classes have a homework limit?
Know your community resources: the Young Philanthropists Program helps to raise awareness
Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans and the collapse of truth
Solutions to Food Waste: Food Rescue US
Rams football: on the hunt for a five-peat
How students are getting involved in the 2026 elections
How NCHS students balance demanding sports and rigorous academic schedules.
Remembering Dolly Parton: more than the music
Danielle Sorcher
Special Reports Director
As most colleges recommend filing deposits by May 1st, seniors are officially ending the college process. For senior Rebecca Evenson, sending in her deposit was a reality check. “The whole idea of me going to college really hit me when I sent in my deposit,” she said. “I finally understood that this is my future, and whatever I do will basically affect me for the rest of my life.”
Kelly Saiz
Editor-in-Chief
Maybe it’s my mother’s southern roots or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve lived in Ye Olde NC for the past eleven years, but I grew up with a plethora of books about manners, cotillion, and Walter Schalk’s Ballroom Dance Class (who didn’t love getting their feet stomped on or waltzing with their arch nemesis?). Chivalry might be dead, but I’m definitely not the only one in NCHS who thinks about manners.
Charlie Dorf
Senior Editor
The shooting of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that Americans will not soon forget. The circumstances surrounding the incident have brought attention and examination to issues such as racial profiling and Stand Your Ground laws not just in Florida, but across the country.
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Blogs Editor
On April 24 the republican presidential candidates courted the vote of students when Connecticut hosted its round of the Republican Presidential Primaries. However, turnout for the primaries in New Canaan was extremely low, clocking in at only 13 percent. These numbers suggests little interest in the primaries, let alone the presidential race as a whole. So the question arises, do students in the high school care about this election?
Tyler Kendall
Features Editor
Second semester senior Phoebe Wilks can be seen walking around school with a Disney princess backpack slung over her shoulder. Phoebe is one of the countless students who decided to enter senior year not only sporting, but embracing this childish style. “My princess backpack brings me back to being a little kid. It’s my last year of high school, so it’s sort of how I hold on to being a child before I morph into an adult,” she said.
