Don’t juice just yet: debunking the myth of juice cleanses
Lexi Gavlas, Spotlight Editor
June 1, 2017
Filed under All, Feature, Informative Feature, Showcase
Andrew Foltin: drawing a new path
Lyndsey Case, Social Media Manager
May 2, 2017
Filed under All, Feature, Focus, Human Interest Feature, Showcase, Spotlight
Kalamazoo, to Tennessee, to Kentucky, to Colorado: picture coming home from school only to find out it is time to pack your bags, leave your friends and new school behind, and head off to another state, again. The life of a military child is never easy: “you gotta leave behind a lot of people that you...
Madison Bonnewell: singing her heart out
Megna Joshi, Website Editor
April 26, 2017
Filed under All, Feature, Focus, Human Interest Feature, Showcase, Spotlight
Madison Bonnewell is a junior who in her free time enjoys reading, singing and watching musical theatre. Madison comes from a huge family of six siblings and is also mixed -half black and half white- and adopted. In addition to having a huge family, all of them are religious and involved in their faith,...
PN mourns cancer fighter Haylee Lewis, 9/10/1999 – 4/13/2017
Cortney Chow, Editor in Chief
April 17, 2017
Filed under Feature, Showcase
Haylee Ann Lewis, a junior at Portage Northern High School, passed away after a nine month battle with glioblastoma on Thursday, April 13th. News of Haylee passing away came suddenly, but the impact she has left in the community will always be cherished. From Haylee’s first...
Haylee Lewis: portrait of a cancer fighter
Cortney Chow, Editor in Chief
April 17, 2017
Filed under Feature
NOTE: This is a reprint of the article on Haylee Lewis, 9/10/1999-4/13/2017, from the February edition of the Northern Light. Haylee’s Story: She found herself in a bustling hallway trying to get to her next class as friends followed her stride - everything seemed normal f...
Best of both worlds: Kushi Matharu blends Indian and American culture
Meredith Ablao, News Editor
March 24, 2017
Filed under All, Feature, Human Interest Feature, Life and Style, Showcase, Spotlight
The Indian community here at Portage Northern is very vast in geographical range. There are several different regions of India. The Northern Region consists of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. These locations are famous for Kashmir ...
Understanding and learning Meditation
Megna Joshi, Website Editor
March 23, 2017
Filed under Feature, Informative Feature
Meditation is something that almost everyone can do and with practice, meditation can be very beneficial to a person's mental health. This is because meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves stress and helps with insomnia. There are different types of meditation, such as: sleeping meditation, walkin...
They did it! (The history and power of the scapegoat)
Salvador DelVecchio, Staff Writer
March 21, 2017
Filed under Feature, Informative Feature
It's the top of the eighth and the Cubs are up 3-0 on the Marlins in Game 6 of the NLCS in the year 2003. WHAM; Marlins second baseman Luis Castillo crushes a heater thrown by Cubs pitcher Mark Prior. The sound rippled through Wrigley Field like a sonic boom. Every fan in Wrigley was focused on the f...
Hailey Markus: A battle won on wheels
Cortney Chow, Editor in Chief
March 21, 2017
Filed under Feature, Human Interest Feature, Showcase
As a student wielding a wheelchair takes on the busy hallways during passing time, everything seems taller to her: the people, the clocks, the lockers. Sometimes it is not just her surroundings, but her condition that towers over her. This student is Hailey Markus (12), and as a person diagnosed with ...
Second language, second home: an aspect that is forgotten
Cortney Chow, Editor in Chief
March 15, 2017
Filed under All, Feature, Human Interest Feature, Showcase
As more diversity floods into the country, the students within Portage Northern High School make the environment enriched with culture. However, communication is often overlooked for students whose second language is English. Because there is a language barrier that they encounter everyday -- academically...
Toes aren’t always the pointe: How dancing affects the life of a dancer
Allison Mckenzie, Feature editor
March 12, 2017
Filed under Feature, In-Depth Feature
Several debates occur around the world on if dance is truly a sport or not. The discussion that does not happen, however, is how dancing truly impacts the life of the person involved. Dance is a huge time commitment that significantly impacts dancers’ lives. “Dance takes up all of my time. I am...
Poom Atiwetin finds new family at NHS while cherishing his birth family in Thailand
Cameron Schaefer, Photographer
March 7, 2017
Filed under All, Feature, Focus, Human Interest Feature, Showcase, Spotlight
Without the mothers of the world, the continuation of human life on Earth would be non-existent. They bring bodies to this world after nine excruciating months of various forms of pain and sickness. Not only do they suffer every step of the way for this cause, they influence their children in indescribable...