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Found Money?
March 10, 2011 • Joanie DeMuro and Sade Salley
Filed under Opinions
Finding Money on the Street When you see money on the street…What do you do? Do you pick it up and keep it? Or do you leave it there because picking it up is the wrong thing to do? To be 100% honest… I’d pick it up! If it was just money, lying there on the ground, I’d keep it for myself. Under... Read more »
Winter Snow…Bad or Good?
January 31, 2011 • Joanie DeMuro and Sade Salley
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When you hear on the news that there is a snow storm expected, what do you do? Are you excited that you may not have school the next day? Or are you worried about wasting your free snow days? Some people seem to like all the snow because they get to miss school and be able to play the next day. All we... Read more »
Is Peekskill a Real City ?
January 18, 2011 • Joanie DeMuro and Sade Salley
Filed under Opinions
You always hear that New York City is the city that never sleeps, but what makes it the great city it is?. There are businesses, stores, museums, art galleries , theaters, parks, restaurants, and people from all over the world. Hey, we have some of that here in Peekskill too, but is Peekskill a real... Read more »
Students Speak about Holidays, Christmas , Family, and More…..
December 18, 2010 • Video Interviews by Destiny Mosley
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The holidays are coming. Watch this video and see what everybody is talking about. What do you think about the Holidays? Leave your comment at the end of the article. Student interviews- What do you think about the holidays? Read More →
Principal Lazarus Responds
October 15, 2010
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In addition to writing an opinion piece about the Dress Code last week, Mercury reporter, Destiny Mosley, sat down with Principal Lazarus and members of the Peekskill School Board of Education to discuss the Dress Code and other Code of Conduct matters. Watch her interviews here- Destiny’s... Read more »
Destiny’s Opinion of the PHS Dress Code
October 9, 2010 • Destiny Mosley- Class of 2014
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Peekskill High School Dress Code Some of the aspects of the Peekskill High School Dress Code are utterly stupid. I know for a fact that staff members and students alike agree with me. I’ll admit, some parts of the dress code make sense and shouldn’t be changed. For example, the no spaghetti straps... Read more »
Suddenly Senior
September 18, 2010 • Kelly Stevenson, Class of 2011
Filed under Opinions, Top Stories
It seems fitting to break out one of the more frequently favored cliches: Where has the time gone? This past month felt like my last three years of high school have wrapped themselves up into an ornate package, ready to be shipped off to who knows where? As each year passed and I got older, responsibilities... Read more »
My Opinion of PHS People
September 11, 2010
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Over the summer I had the opportunity to work with, observe, and interact with many students and alumni of Peekskill High School. This gave me the chance to not just see them as ”students”, but to experience them as “people”. In my position as Day Camp Director, I worked with... Read more »
Power of Peace
March 24, 2010
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DOTTIE BRADSHAW 26 students and 6 teachers sat in one circle; 32 different people from different cliques, different classes and grades. Some of the students were jocks, some were nerds, others were weirdos and others thought they were cool. The one thing we had in common was that we were all human... Read more »
Dress Code Editorial
November 30, 2009 • Sheridan Taylor, Editorial Writer
Filed under Opinions
In the minds of many students in this high school is, ‘Why do we have to wear certain clothes for school? And when did wearing certain other pieces of clothing become a problem?’ I do not see what is wrong with wearing pajama pants, shorts or ripped jeans to school. Teachers are wasting their time... Read more »
