Learning together: district commits to cultural responsiveness after controversial online learning assignment
Kylie Clifton, Feature Editor
May 11, 2020
It was 9:15 on the morning of April 23rd, and eighth grade Portage North Middle School student Pablo Fraga was ready to return to a new kind of normal with his online history assignment. The content that awaited him, however, was anything but. “I read the questions through and they disgusted me,...
Quarantine Pet Photo Challenge
Kellie Miles, Photographer
April 27, 2020
Quarantine Pet Photo Challenge
Not “Coronacation”: students struggle to fill the void left by school in the wake of cancellation
Brianna Neuhouser, Digital Media Manager
March 26, 2020
What Happened? On Thursday, March 12th, Governor Gretchen Whitmer made the monumental decision to close all K-12 schools in Michigan until April 6th as a way to combat the spread of Covid-19. That would be the first day of Spring Break for Portage students, which made their return date April 13th: a fu...
Color is not consent: how St. Patrick’s day can start an important discussion about touching people without permission
Brianna Neuhouser, Digital Media Manager
March 17, 2020
A two sentence horror story: “You’re not wearing green!” A pinching hand reaches towards you, tapping their pointer and thumb together. Every St. Patrick’s Day, thousands of people across the country scramble to find any sad excuse for green to avoid unwanted touching from their peers. ...
“Yeah, I’m graduating today”: seniors stand in solidarity during threat of COVID-19
Kylie Clifton, Feature Editor
March 16, 2020
The class of 2020 drudged on through the home stretch, battling senioritis and grinding out a year that felt like it would never end. That is, until everything changed at 11:05 on the night of March 12, when a State of Emergency was declared by Governor Gretchen Whitmer for preventative action toward the COVID-19 virus which cancelled sc...
Huskies hand PC their second loss of the season
Malcolm Gaynor, Editor in Chief
February 25, 2020
Portage Northern vs Portage Central Basketball 2020 from Absolute Video on Vimeo. Headed into Friday night’s game, the Portage Central men’s basketball had only lost once. By the time they left the Igloo, their loss column had increased by 1 when the Huskies defeated them in double overti...
Slow motion: Myles Johnson diligently works his way back from a traumatic injury
Carrie Jacobson, Staff Writer
February 13, 2020
One second, junior varsity basketball player Myles Johnson was flying through the air for a dunk in an increasingly-physical league matchup against Niles high school. The next second, he was on the ground with a compound fracture of his right leg.
Senior Sean Kellogg experiences a world in color through synesthesia
Kylie Clifton, Feature Editor
January 30, 2020
“Synesthesia is the overlapping of two or more senses in the brain. it's just how my brain perceives reality, I'm not conscious that it's there all the time, it kind of just exists,” says senior Sean Kellogg. “If I see the color green, like, with my eyes, I don't think too much about it. I...
Teachers with diverse teaching methods make a difference for students
Cynthia Brown, Journalism 1 Writer
January 8, 2020
I am assuming that when teachers learn how to be teachers, they are told they have to teach a certain way, what to teach the students and how to present the information to each of them. These standard methods might not always be what is best for students, however. For example, sitting in math class, I often ...
