Empowering Others
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
May 22, 2020
Nothing is more empowering than when people come together in the darkest of times to support each other’s small successes because they are a big deal and they do matter. It is life giving and satisfying when we take time to grow with others, even in a time where growth seems to have stopped; where li...
Staying Connected: Screen-less
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
May 7, 2020
In a time where technology is seemingly endless, it is easy for people and communities to stay connected through an unprecedented crisis. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has helped lead campaigns regarding the shut down it has caused in America and it has helped people stay toget...
Update: New Last Day of School
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
April 16, 2020
At the virtual board of education meeting tonight, April 16, the District announced that the official last day of the Francis Howell School District’s 2019-2020 school year will be Tuesday, May 19. After the several snow days this past winter, the school was extended to last another week, but due t...
Update: Information Regarding Senior Traditions and Events
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
April 16, 2020
A lot of expectations and traditions come with being a high school senior. The past few weeks teachers, counselors, and building administrators have been working hard so that these events can still take place in some form. For the FHC class of 2020, Senior Awards Night will be held virtually via Face...
Celebrating Our F.A.M.I.L.Y Quarantine Style
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
April 16, 2020
In a time of solitude and sorrow, there is still joy. There is still hope. There is still community. To honor math teacher Roxanne Fetsch, who has been battling leukemia throughout the past few years, teachers, administrators, and students got together to plan something big. Mrs. Fetsch recently found...
What Does COVID-19 Look Like?
April 16, 2020
With Gov. Mike Parson closing schools for the rest of the year on April 9, Spartans settled in for the rest of their school year to be conducted at home. This series of photos and short dispatches aims to show you what like is like for members of FHC Publications while staying at home as they hope for...
“Hold Harmless” Grading
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
April 6, 2020
For a while, the Francis Howell School District has been wrestling with the issue of how grading will work during online classes, and in an extremely unpredictable time of life. On Thursday, April 2, the district had reached a consensus and sent out a blast email to all teachers, students, and parents in the district to address the major concern with online learnin...
Missing School or Missing School?
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
March 20, 2020
No more waking up at, roughly, 5 a.m. No more lesson plans. No more grading homework. No more school; period. Well, at least not until Monday, April 6. You would think that some would jump for joy at the thought of not having to deal with annoying high school students for an extra two weeks, but mat...
Seeing the Colors
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
March 4, 2020
Waking up to clouds gathering overhead. The snow is starting to fall, the cold rushing up against the window pane, leaking into the room through cracks in the walls built up to withstand more than just a little winter storm. Just like that, one small breeze from Father Winter himself has sent...
Meet the Elite Girls Basketball Seniors
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
February 26, 2020
Senior Night was hosted on Friday, Feb. 22 against Fort Zumwalt West for the girls basketball, boys basketball, Sensations, cheer team, and step team. Both the boys and girls basketball teams came out with victories over the Jaguars. The girls basketball team will be saying goodbye to seven seniors this y...
Girls Basketball Strikes Back
Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor
February 20, 2020
Winning at home is always an adrenaline rush full of screams and shouts of victory, but winning on the road is something else entirely, especially when it’s the team down Highway 94 that you beat. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Spartan girls basketball team took down the Howell Vikings on their ho...
Properly Productive Snow Day
Kierigan McEvoy, Wed Assignments Editor
February 7, 2020
Every kids dream: waking up to absolutely zero snow on the ground but somehow getting out of going to school for the day. It can’t get any better than that. Sleeping in until 10:00 a.m. (or later because, you know, high schoolers), moving your hibernation from your room to the couch (for those not coo...
Grace Bahru, Staff Reporter
May 17, 2020
While being stuck at home can be an extremely difficult task, many people have found many different outlets to pass the time. For some that consists of working out, reading,...
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