Food for Thought: Student Blogs Promote Healthier Eating During the Quarantine
Kimball Sheehan, Assistant Editor
May 18, 2020
Worried about developing unhealthy eating habits during the quarantine? Here are two food accounts to keep you healthy and fit, created by WAHS students Megan Futty and Katie Carter. Their recipes are easy to make and won’t waste your groceries! @foodiefutty by Megan Futty: Megan has been running...
WAHS Students Stay Connected Through “Quarantine Madness”
Kimball Sheehan, Assistant Editor
May 7, 2020
Amber Parker decided to create an Instagram account for quarantine games. Since everyone has been so bored being quarantined at their houses, she created this account to bring people together and play various games. “I made the account because I was bored one night," she said. "I made a bracket ...
Food in Review: Italian Restaurants
Darrah Sheehan, Kimball Sheehan, and Michal Kipnis
March 13, 2020
Luce: Tucked off of the Downtown Mall on 2nd Street is the cutest yellow take-out pasta restaurant ever! You might be confused about why we described Luce as yellow, and that’s because it's painted bright yellow. The menu is simple and the food is delicious. You are presented with a difficult choice...
Mammal of the Month: Markhor
William Peritz, Editor-in-Chief
March 9, 2020
If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance that the picture drew you in. Just take a good long look, it only gets better the longer you stare at it. The big, tall horns spiraling up to Heaven look like they’d be the perfect bit for a massive drill. The folded-down ears resemble those...
Food in Review: Mexican Restaurants
Darrah Sheehan, Kimball Sheehan, and Michal Kipnis
January 25, 2020
For the first issue ever of Food in Review, we chose the most popular ethnic food type of Western Albemarle High School students. Despite the vast differences between Crozet and a big city like New York City, they do have one thing in common: local homemade Mexican food. You know quesadillas, chips &am...
Don’t Ask Me About College!
Grace Berigan, Editor in Chief
December 18, 2019
The questions began as early as my freshman year. Since then, they’ve only gotten worse. It’s the dreaded go-to of nosy adults everywhere: “So where are you going to college?” The truthful response to this question is one I’m sure the adults don’t want to hear: “I don’t know.” Once the ...
Lime vs. Bird: An E-Scooter Review
August Lamb and William Lambert
April 18, 2019
Hallelujah, it’s raining… electric scooters??? It seems as though they appeared overnight just a few months ago, and in fact, they did! The City of Charlottesville approved a dockless scooter and e-bike pilot program on December 7th, 2018, and the following morning, one hundred electric-powered scoo...
Mammal of the Month: The Echidna
William Peritz, News Editor
April 9, 2019
If you’ve been following Mammal of the Month for a while, you may be wondering - where’s the platypus? I mean, at this point in the series they have to talk about it eventually, right? What a cool and interesting mammal it is, where can I find the platypus feature? Well as it turns out… that...
Under Official Review: The Ads of Super Bowl LIII
August Lamb, Editor-in-Chief
February 5, 2019
Welcome back, dear readers, to the fourth installment of Under Official Review, your one stop shop for the best ads aired during the biggest sporting event of the year! This year’s Super Bowl was actually Super Boring and Super Disappointing. I’m not here to hate on the Pats, but this was the lowest ...
Staff Celebrates No-Shave November
Sidney Jackson, Managing Editor
December 18, 2018
No-shave November, sometimes known as 'Movember', is a month-long event in which men surrender their razors and let their hair flow freely. Though many guys see this event as a friendly competition with buddies to see who can grow the longest or bushiest beards, the real reason behind No-shave N...
Mammal of the Month: Pangolin
William Peritz, News Editor
October 25, 2018
Well here we are, two years later. Everyone’s favorite mammal-appreciation series returns for its third season, which means, fun fact: it’s older that the shelf life of canned applesauce. It’s true. For anyone new here, every issue Mammal of the Month provides information about the most underrated...
Mammal of the Month: Porcupine
William Peritz, Latitudes Editor
November 3, 2017
Welcome to the running series known as Mammal of the Month, returning for a second of many years to the Western Hemisphere. Once per issue, we’ll take a journey deep into the mammalian world, focusing on one creature at a time. Volume II, Issue I, let’s begin with the Porcupine. When it comes...
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