By Sarah Rovinsky 1. Your middle school best friend, the one you couldn’t imagine life without and promised you’d stay close buds forever will only be a familiar face that you share a smile with across the room during graduation. There’s nothing wrong with that. People grow and sometimes it’s apart from one another. 2. The loneliness you feel right now is not permanent. There … Continue reading How to Survive High School
By Sarah Rovinsky Bellbrook’s JROTC canned food drive was a success! Cadet Second Lieutenant Joshua Oreskovich led his peers in collecting 11,553 canned goods. The JROTC program reached 114.62% of their goal of 10,000. To meet the goal, each cadet brought in a minimum of 50 cans each and volunteered to pass out flyers and collect donations from local neighborhoods. The students visited Kables Mill, East of … Continue reading Bellbrook’s JROTC Makes an Impact
By Sarah Rovinsky Three periods of art one competed Friday, October 30, for the best carved pumpkin. Students had four days to work on their sculptures. Judges Mrs. Fogarty, Mrs. Hensley, and Mr. Hann chose six students to reward with a free meal to the new burger joint on the Feedwire and Wilmington Pike intersection. First place tie between senior Trenton Nartker and freshman Andrea … Continue reading Pumpkin Art Glows at BHS
by Sarah Rovinsky Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a notorious drug kingpin in Mexico, known as El Chapo, outran security forces once again. This time, officials located him at a hide-out in Mexico’s remote northwestern mountains, but he fled as they approached, injuring his leg and his face, Mexican officials said late Friday, October 16. The government says there was no direct confrontation between security and Mr. Guzmán. The … Continue reading ‘El Chapo’ Excapes Again
by Sarah Rovinsky Two bombs exploded in the capital of Turkey October 10, killing at least 95 and wounding 246 people. The event took place at a peace rally made up of Kurdish and leftist groups demanding an end to the clashes between Turkey and Kurdish rebel fighters. Hundreds had traveled from around the country to participate in what was supposed to be a peaceful … Continue reading Twin Bombings: Deadliest in Turkish History
by Sarah Rovinsky On September 3, for 30 minutes, American forces conducted a deadly airstrike on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The attack killed 22 civilians, 12 of them staff members. Officials with Doctors Without Borders had explicitly informed in advance all parties to the conflict, including in Washington and Kabul, of the hospital’s GPS coordinates. Once the bombing started, the … Continue reading American Airstrike Targets Afghani Hospital
By Sarah Rovinsky The problem originated in China, when program XcodeGhost hit hundreds–possibly thousands–of Apple iOS apps used throughout the globe. The infamous hackers targeted the App Store through a counterfeit version of the Xcode “toolkit,” the software used to build apps to run on its iOS operating system. The hackers could send commands to infected devices asking for personal information from users. The counterfeit version was … Continue reading Attack on Apple: Hackers Target App Store
By Sarah Rovinsky Columbia University student, Emma Sulkowicz, carried a mattress around the campus all year and graduated May 19 with her mattress in tow. The mattress was part of her senior thesis project, performance art called “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight).” The visual arts major said she would carry the mattress everywhere she went on campus for as long as she attended the same school … Continue reading “Mattress Project” Continues Into Graduation
By Sarah Rovinksy The jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the notorious Boston Marathon Bomber, to death on 6 of the 17 counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction, bombing of a public place and malicious destruction of property. A death sentence required a unanimous vote from the jury members, but if they had failed to agree on it, the life sentence would have been imposed … Continue reading Boston Marathon Bomber Sentenced to Death
By Sarah Rovinsky The Pentagon and White House announced on Saturday morning, May 16, that U.S. special operations forces killed an Islamic State leader, who helped direct the group’s oil, gas and financial operations, during a raid in eastern Syria. President Obama ordered the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, the ISIS commander. A U.S. official said his wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured in the raid … Continue reading ISIS Commander Killed In U.S. Special-Ops Raid
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