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Have A-Positive experience: donate blood

Have A-Positive experience: donate blood

ANNIKA NYBORG, Staff Writer March 8, 2023

It's that time of the year again! The American Red Cross will be back at GHS on March 17th. The blood drive will be in the field house and will run the entire school day.  All GHS students and staff are...

Willow Barry, Elijah Sarrouf, Treely Dowd, and Malia Andrews pose with their awards, and the judges.

GHS Theater takes Shakespeare to METG DramaFest

CLARA DEL VECCHIO, News Editor March 6, 2023

On Saturday, the GHS Theater Program performed Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the METG Theater Celebration Festival. Also known as "DramaFest", the celebration is an annual competition...

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

AP African American Studies no longer offered in Florida

CLARA DEL VECCHIO, News Editor February 17, 2023

Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, has taken issue with the curriculum of the AP African American Studies course, and the state has now rejected the course as a whole, and no longer offers it to students....

The cafeteria where GHS students were instructed to lock down.

Swatting hoax hits Gloucester High School

AURELIA HARRISON, Features and Opinions Editor February 16, 2023

Yesterday, Gloucester police received an anonymous call that there was an armed intruder present at Gloucester High School. The police were at the school within minutes, and officers began searching the...

GHS alum harnesses the sun to power Vocational Department

GHS alum harnesses the sun to power Vocational Department

FINN WALL, Staff Writer February 12, 2023

In the search for clean and renewable energy, the GHS vocational department has made a big step towards a greener future. Working with the Cazeault Solar and Home Company, the entire shop is installing...

Our Climate Future is Here: Tuvalu Becomes World’s First Digital Nation

Our Climate Future is Here: Tuvalu Becomes World’s First Digital Nation

FINN WALL, Staff Writer January 17, 2023

Climate change is nothing short of an existential crisis for the world. Affecting nearly everything humans are involved in, caused by a myriad of issues, and requiring near-total global cooperation, progress...

Lisa Marie Presley dead at 54 

Lisa Marie Presley dead at 54 

SOFIA ORLANDO, Multimedia Editor January 13, 2023

On January 12, Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock n’ roll icon Elvis Presley, has died after experiencing cardiac arrest at age 54. It was reported on Thursday that the Los Angeles sheriff’s office...

Lula is back, and faces a starkly divided Brazil

Lula is back, and faces a starkly divided Brazil

FINN WALL, Staff Writer December 22, 2022

Two months ago, Brazilians cast their vote for who would become their next president, in what would become the closest election in all of Brazilian history. And in it, the future of 200 million people,...

Massive breakthrough in nuclear fusion shows future of energy

Massive breakthrough in nuclear fusion shows future of energy

FINN WALL, Staff Writer December 16, 2022

Last Tuesday, the US Department of Energy officially announced a breakthrough in science, one that could change the way we look at energy forever—the first successful fusion energy test that gave out...

GHS students fundraise for Action Against Hunger

GHS students fundraise for Action Against Hunger

CLARA DEL VECCHIO, News Editor December 15, 2022

Students in Mr. Francis’s Global Issues class embarked on a fundraising campaign for Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization with the goal of ending world hunger. Hunger affects 828...

Have a heart: Donate blood.

Have a heart: Donate blood.

ANNIKA NYBORG, Staff Writer December 1, 2022

Gloucester High School and American Red Cross are teaming up for the blood drive this December 9th. GHS staff and students are eligible to donate blood. The drive will be set up in the field house and...

Gloucester playwright seeks student contributors

Gloucester playwright seeks student contributors

SOFIA ORLANDO, Multimedia Editor November 29, 2022

Do you like to write? Or are you passionate about Gloucester’s history? If so, put your knowledge to good use and help compose a play about Gloucester’s 400 years of history.  Gloucester native,...

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