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Smoky Now

The student news site of Smoky Hill High School

Smoky Now

The student news site of Smoky Hill High School

Smoky Now

Newspaper to Return 2023-2024 School Year

Newspaper to Return 2023-2024 School Year

Gloria Namgung, Editor-in-Chief April 4, 2023

On Tuesday, Apr. 4, Principal Andre Bala informed Advisor Carrie Faust and the Newspaper class that the program is expected to return in the next upcoming school year. Bala initially gave the news that...

Competitive Speech and Debate Voices Their Concerns on Possibility of Smoky Programs Being Cut

Competitive Speech and Debate Voices Their Concerns on Possibility of Smoky Programs Being Cut

Isaiah Escamilla, Gloria Namgung, Staffer, Editor-in-Chief March 29, 2023

Competitive Speech and Debate and Newspaper are both academic classes that are being cut in the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Needless to say, students involved in both courses are frustrated and continuously...

Opinion | A Student Newspaper is Essential to an American High School

Opinion | A Student Newspaper is Essential to an American High School

Dawson Patterson, Staffer March 27, 2023

Part One: The Reasoning On Mar. 16, Newspaper Advisor Carrie Faust announced that the Smoky Hill Newspaper class is going to be cut next year, upsetting a lot of us hard-working newspaper students who...

Smoky Hill Newspaper Program Projected to be Cut Upcoming 2023-2024 School Year

Smoky Hill Newspaper Program Projected to be Cut Upcoming 2023-2024 School Year

Gloria Namgung, Isaiah Escamilla, Simone Van de Sande, Faven Getnet, Sofiia Znakharenko, and Lily Gibson March 16, 2023

Gloria Namgung (Junior, Editor-in-Chief) On Monday, Mar. 13, the Smoky Hill High School Newspaper program was informed by advisor Carrie Faust that the class and program in itself would be cut and not...

Administration Slashes Newspaper and Speech & Debate

Administration Slashes Newspaper and Speech & Debate

Tyler Dortch, Editor-In-Chief March 16, 2023

Two of Smoky Hill's most important class options are being taken away. Multi-Media Journalism (newspaper) and competitive Speech & Debate are not being reinstated during the 2023-24 school year because...

Pass If You Please

Pass If You Please

Sofiia Znakharenko and Zakary Peterson, Staffer and Co-Editor March 14, 2023

After the bell rang, the hallways bustled with students moving to their next period, and after the first ten minutes wound down the halls were mainly empty, excluding the few notable stragglers.  It...

Paula Yoo stands in front of her whiteboard in which she presented 1 in 4 Asian American youths experience racist bullying as well as other facts and pictures from her life experiences and interviews.

Inspirational Author and Journalist Paula Yoo Spoke and Met with Smoky Students

Zakary Peterson, Co-Editor March 1, 2023

The library was filled on Tuesday as students watched Paula Yoo give a speech about her latest book "From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian...

Opinion | No Delayed Start?

Opinion | No Delayed Start?

Faven Getnet, Staffer February 23, 2023

After a long 4 day weekend, Smoky Hill students come back to school with hazy and snowy weather this morning. At 8:28, the line for the tardy cart downstairs in front of the lecture center is still a very...

New Hall Policy

New Hall Policy

Faven Getnet, Staffer February 14, 2023

  A new policy has been established at Smoky where the doors in the activities hallway will be locked for student access to the academic halls ten minutes after the bell rings with adults there...

Smoky Hill Theater Presents: The Addams Family

Smoky Hill Theater Presents: The Addams Family

Gloria Namgung, Editor-in-Chief February 13, 2023

The start of the Spring semester indicates the time for the new musical production many are anticipating. This time around, "The Addams Family", a musical based on the 1991 film will be performed for all...

Opinion | The Petition for Reopening the Student Lounges

Opinion | The Petition for Reopening the Student Lounges

Simone Van de Sande, Staffer February 12, 2023

It's the Friday before finals week starts and you hear the announcements come on. Principal, Andre Bala, announces that the lounge areas in the innovation centers will be shut down for the rest of the...

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