Miscommunication about district move to hybrid causes concerns and confusion among shareholders
Kylie Clifton, Astrid Code, Maya Daniels, Sloan Markin, and Bryana Quick
October 13, 2020
At 6:30 on the evening of September 28th, community members all across Portage cleared their tabs and readied their screens for the standard bi-monthly Board of Education meeting. The meeting’s first hour passed as might have been expected, with routine updates coming to a close with no objections. ...
Virtual learners experience school at home and in-building
Natalie Grinder, Digital Media Editor
September 25, 2020
The 2020-2021 school year has had quite a unique start. With the pandemic still underway, PPS students found themselves learning virtually either from their own homes or from designated learning spaces in school (with masks and social distancing protocols in place). There are many differences between the two c...
Students adjust to online learning
Melissah Morris-Adkins, Staff Writer
September 14, 2020
With the new school year starting, students are figuring out ways to adjust to online learning. PNHS students have the option to do online learning in the building or at home. Whether the students are in the building getting help or just doing it in the comfort of their own home, they’ve had to do s...
Let’s embrace online learning for the blessing that it is
Arushi Mithal, Feature Editor
September 14, 2020
This year has been filled with inconveniences. We must simply adapt, accept, and move on. One of the inconveniences students are navigating through is the idea of online classes. It can immediately be said that online classes are burdensome and will never replace the connection within the traditional classroo...
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...
