As senior graduation approaches, student council is having their annual Senior Week a week full of fun activities and events. Monday and Tuesday are the hush days. Monday is the male hush day. How it works is that all male seniors get three sets of beads and throughout the whole day they have to try...

Free baseball and an opportunity to check out local colleges is a two-in-one deal for high school students everywhere. United Shore Professional Baseball League is hosting an event that allows baseball and future education to converge. On Thursday, May 23, Jimmy Johns Field in downtown Utica is opening...

How do you spend your time off school? Hanging out with friends, spending time with your family, and catching up on your favorite TV shows are all things we love to do in our free time. Teachers don’t always get as much time at home as us students. You probably don’t realize it, but teachers spend...

Winner winner, ThunderChicken dinner. UCS's own Team 217, the ThunderChickens, allied with three other robotics teams last weekend to take it all at the FIRST Robotics Competition world championship in downtown Detroit. “I really believed we could make it to Einstein, even to the finals,” Tony...

What’s the Splash? Over the years, Utica High has had a tradition of seniors soaking each other for fun. It's called water wars, and although it's not school-sponsored, it's an intense competition to be the last team standing. The competition is set up off of the social media network, Twitter....

The electric guitar strums and the crowd goes wild. This may sound like beginning of a Queen concert, but it’s really just what’s in store for the theater department’s new musical “We Will Rock You.” “We Will Rock You” incorporates the band Queen’s top hits. The musical is set many...