Monthly Archives: November 2017

By Isabelle Lounsberry                    Ms. Willard, the fairly new media specialist at Apopka High, has been teaching her entire career life. Starting as an elementary school teacher, she started working at Apopka High last year.Willard graduated from Apopka High in 1997, and went […]

Getting to Know: Ms. Willard

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By Jeffery Laux Sports Editor The Apopka Women’s basketball team will be kicking off their season with a match against tough in-conference rival Dr. Phillips. This match will take play the 28th of November at 7:00. The Women’s team is coming off of an 11 win season in which they […]

Preview: Apopka Womens’ Basketball

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By Michaela Etienne                   The ACS program was an idea thought up by former principal Douglas Guthrie, and overseen by Mr. Delgado along with Ms.Clements (none of whom are currently at AHS). Academic Consortium Scholars or ACS is a program that rewards […]

Where Did the ACS Program Go?

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By Cassidy Johnson This Saturday Apopka High School had its long-awaited Homecoming Dance. Lasting from 8:00 pm to midnight at the House of Blues in Disney Springs, the theme was “Hollywood Walk of Fame.” SGA did not disappoint, with decorations that included an actual red carpet as the students entered […]

The Homecoming Dance!

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By Cassidy Johnson   The air is beginning to turn crisp, the temperature inches closer to 55 degrees, and ugly sweaters are back in stock. You know what time of year it is: the holiday season. Yet in your earnest to pull out family recipes for those holiday dinners, don’t […]

Feeding Apopka

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By Arianna Bekas Every year Epcot hosts a truly beautiful and festive event during December to ring in the holidays. Filled with joyous music performed by top honor choirs’ and a celebrity to read the one and only Christmas Story, Candlelight never fails to disappoint. With the singers dressed in […]

Light Up Your Christmas

 in Arts and Entertainment
By Arianna Bekas Fanaticism is defined as excessive enthusiasm and often uncritical devotion. The presence of fanatics within our society causes great irritation to any rational person, due to their constant ignorance and inability to ever listen, look, or try to understand something from a different viewpoint. When we consistently […]

The Failure of Fanaticism

 in Editorials and Opinions
  By Jamari Saint Cyr   The Apopka High School soccer team is kicking off to a great start for their new season. Tryouts were held on  and October 17th for the girls soccer team and Monday, October 23rd for the boys soccer team. Tryouts for both are currently ongoing and […]

A Season Kick-Off

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By Lenaia Powell Traditions at Apopka High School have not always been consistent, and the AHS Dance Team is one example of that. The dance team this year has a new structure and is back and better than ever because of Jayla and Aiyanna Brinkley’s proposal, and a brand new […]

Hip Hoppin’ and Bee Boppin’

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By Jordan Jenkins On September 5th of this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump Administration would initiate the process of rescinding the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The decision came after months of speculation on the programs fate, seeing as President […]

Daring to Dream

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