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The show must go on
March 28, 2021
Oliver Gamez, Editor
Unable to finish and perform their show last school year, the Utica High theater department is currently working on the production of their first show of the 2020-2021 school year. When the theatre department began working on the play in the fall, it was coined to be titled “Crafting a Killer”...
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Adapting to life in America
March 2, 2021
Simmi Singh, Social Media Editor
From a small town called Hebei, junior Jiaqi Wang had just moved to America with her family last year. Wang has found that it’s a little bit of a struggle adjusting life in America, with different cultural and social barrier she has spent her time here trying to adjust her daily rotuine to fit in with...
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The school spray down
March 2, 2021
Raymond Altmann, Managing Editor
With the return of students coming back into Utica high school staff has been finding ways to fight Covid-19 from spreading around Utica and keeping students safe. One way they have been fighting this is with the Victory Electric Static Sprayer. The Victory sprayer is a device that gets carried around...
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Fourth issue published digitally during COVID restrictions
February 26, 2021
Mackenzie Olmstead, Print Editor-in-Chief
Click on the red logo in the middle of the link/image below to view the issue. Individual stories will be posted shortly, if you’d like to comment on specific articles.
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SNOWDAYS: Has virtual learning made them a thing of the past?
February 23, 2021
Raymond Altmann, Managing Editor
Now that Utica Community Schools are using a hybrid learning system due to COVID, students are wondering if will snow days are still a possibility. In the past, snow days have given students a day off to save them from the cold snow or slippery ice. Many times, road conditions are too difficult for buses...
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Class Act Chieftain Award
February 9, 2021
Brooklynn Hathcock, Digital Editor in Chief
Students last year got the chance to be nominated for the "Class Act Chieftain Award", which is a special designated parking spot that is right in front of the main doors. This nomination is for students to show off their important and special things that they have done this year. This Award is...
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CARES act provides free breakfast, lunch for students

Ethan Smale, Business manager

March 2, 2021

With school being back in session, it’s important that students understand what kind of food is going to be available to them, and how they will be able to get the food...

Cameras On vs Cameras Off

Joshua Rhodes, Reporter

March 2, 2021

Now that we’re more than half way through the year and we go to school both in person and virtually some students think that cameras aren’t important while other students...

Nursing students return to Utica medical lab

Oliver Gamez, Copy Editor

March 2, 2021

After nearly an entire year of students working individually and distanced, the students in Mrs. Tancredi’s Nursing Assistant class have finally returned to the lab for...

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Teacher of the Year 2021

Simmi Singh, Online reporter

March 12, 2021 • No Comments

Every year we award one staff member an award for their excellence and overall amazing work over the year. This is to show appreciation to those who work tirelessly to make...

Movie theatres are now open, for better or for worse

Oliver Gamez, Editor

March 5, 2021 • No Comments

Only recently has Governor Whitmer's restriction on movie theaters finally lifted, and overall the community has shown great appreciation in the freedom. "I think going...

Where to park

Brooklynn Hathcock, Digital Editor-in-Chief

March 2, 2021 • No Comments

Let’s be honest with ourselves, it just has to be the worst feeling when you get up late in the morning, you are rushing around to get ready, you get to school a little...

Balloons in Science March 2, 2021
The return to school March 2, 2021
ESSENTIAL STUDENTS February 23, 2021

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Opinion

Students & Staff Coming Back 4 Days a Week

Simmi Singh, Online reporter

March 30, 2021

As we know with the covid cases slowly decreasing the district is starting to open everything up again. This has lead to the opening of schools full-time with all students...

The effect of the full student return to Utica March 26, 2021
Music makes the world go ’round March 16, 2021

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Entertainment

Review of Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions

Mackenzie Olmstead, Print Editor-In-Chief

March 11, 2021 • No Comments

Taylor Swift, who just became the first female to win...

Superbowl Parties

Simmi Singh, Online reporter

March 5, 2021 • No Comments

Superbowl Sunday is a huge event that is celebrated...

Billie Eilish holding global livestream concert during pandemic

Mackenzie Olmstead, Print Editor-In-Chief

November 19, 2020 • No Comments

Billie Eilish is one of the newest, youngest, and biggest...

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Sports

Swim Gets the green light also

Brooklynn Hathcock, Digital Editor-in-Chief

March 16, 2021 • No Comments

With Coronavirus causing a delay to many sports this year, swim is taking all of the protocols very seriously to keep their season up and going. “The season is...

Winter sports get the green light to begin season

Jonathan Cunningham, Sports Editor

March 2, 2021 • No Comments

After outrage and many protests and Facebook posts calling for leading health officials to “let them play,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, along with the...

Student Athletes Get Their Wish February 12, 2021
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Staff Editorials

March 2, 2021

With being back at school, it is a mix of different emotions. Some students are happy to be back- they feel safe in the schools and they love to now see all of their teachers...

Students go back face-to-face

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December 15, 2020

Pandemic Learning

October 12, 2020

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Quiz bowl team wins second place at MAC tournament
January 31, 2020
Abby Jenkins, Design Editor
On Wed, January 29, Utica's Quiz Bowl team took second place at their MAC Quiz Bowl competition. The team consists of seven members, who have practiced weekly for the past...
Quiz Bowl team takes trivia wins
December 20, 2019
Brooklynn Hathcock, Online Reporter
National Academic Quiz Tournaments, or simply knows as Quiz Bowl, is a game in which two teams compete against one and another to answer questions from all areas of knowledge,...
Backstage Pass
December 17, 2019
Parker Hopkins, Digital Editor-in-Chief
Anyone who has been to a play or musical can agree - the actors put in a lot of work to make everything flow. However, what many people may not realize is the amount of hard...
New club created for future first responders
December 16, 2019
Mackenzie Olmstead and Magan Leitermann
Growing up with his dad serving as a Macomb County Sheriff, sophomore Joey Perry always knew he wanted to be a police officer. A member of the county jail’s Explorer’s...
Creativity flows at new writing club
December 12, 2019
Nur Awkal, Editor
Senior Monica Alejos-Gomez has always had a passion for writing, and now she gets to express her writing with her peers. She was inspired by a lot of students wanting to express...
Utica’s theatre puts on “Puffs”
October 29, 2019
Grace Leonardi, Online Reporter
Watch the wizarding world come alive on stage in a different perspective as Utica's Theatre Department puts on “PUFFS or Seven increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School...
We talk the facts
September 18, 2019
Grace Leonardi, Online Reporter
It's not common a school club encourages students yelling at each other, but if you enjoy making and proving a statement under pressure, debate club is the place for you. As...
French Club teaches culture to students
September 18, 2019
Jennifer Vaida, Online Reporter
The French Club is having their first meeting Sept. 19 after school in room 248. Any students looking for an extracurricular activity are welcome to join teacher Susan Bernardi...
Principal shaves hair after DECA national win
June 3, 2019
Collin Fox, Sports Editor
Principal Tom Lietz is a man of his word. During an Arrow press conference earlier in the year, Lietz told senior Jacob Joseph that if his DECA duo placed in the top five...
Fandom Club is here
May 21, 2019
Nur Awkal , Online reporter
Calling all fictional fandom lovers! If you love everything about fictional characters then come to fandom club. They are meeting May 20th (Anime themed), and June...