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Lunar New Year
Jadon Zao, Copy Editor • January 16, 2025

Chinese New Year marks the beginning of the lunar calendar, and is a celebration among two billion people across the world, according to the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition. This year it falls on January 29th, and 2025 signals the year of the...

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Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year
Jadon Zao, Copy Editor • January 16, 2025

Chinese New Year marks the beginning of the lunar calendar, and is a celebration among two billion people across the world, according to the...

Library Makeover
Library Makeover
Vanessa Kalemi, Community Reporter • January 14, 2025

The newly renovated Queens Public Library in Bay Terrace is now open. Renovation began in April 2022, closing the facility, and it reopened in...

Matilda The Musical
Matilda The Musical
Hailey Bahr, Community Reporter • January 13, 2025

This year’s school play is Matilda the Musical. It is a joint show between I.S. 25 and WJPS middle schools.   Auditions took place on...

Soaring With Balloonerism
Soaring With Balloonerism
Christopher Benavides, Features Reporter • January 16, 2025

A new album will be released January 17th by Mac Miller’s family and estate titled “Balloonerism.”    On September 7th, 2018,...

Collaboration
Collaboration
January 15, 2025
Snow White Reimagined
Snow White Reimagined
January 14, 2025
Shifting Gears
Shifting Gears
January 14, 2025
“Two-Way” Players
“Two-Way” Players
Marcello Fricano, Sports Reporter • January 2, 2025

Two-way players have been gaining popularity in baseball and college football, with the athletes, Shohei Ohtani and Travis Hunter.   Having...

Player Profile: Preston Ng
Player Profile: Preston Ng
Georgios Tsiakas, Sports Reporter • December 19, 2024

Preston Ng is a 12th grader at WJPS and a wrestler for Francis Lewis High School. This is his second year wrestling for the team, but this year...

The Knowledge of a Smart Basketball
The Knowledge of a Smart Basketball
Matthew Aleksa, Technology Reporter • January 15, 2025

The smart basketball was created by the Wilson Company.    The smart basketball tracks a player's statistics.    There...

Stranded In Space
Stranded In Space
Christian Ortiz, Technology Reporter • January 14, 2025

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS, or the International Space Station, for seven months, despite only planning...

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Metric Madness
Metric Madness
Sebastian Silva, Opinion Reporter • November 27, 2024

The United States, Myanmar, and Liberia have something in common. Of all the countries in the world, these are the only three that use the imperial...

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