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The Northern Light

The student news site of Portage Northern High School

The Northern Light

The student news site of Portage Northern High School

The Northern Light

Latora was, in 2016, a candidate for M-Lives most likely wrestler to go on to the state tournament.

Portage community mourns the loss of PC student Dante Latora

Staff March 24, 2017

The Portage Central High School community is mourning the loss of one of their students today. Staff and students found out yesterday that Dante Latora (12) was killed in a car accident in Virginia on...

Hailey Markus: A battle won on wheels

Hailey Markus: A battle won on wheels

Cortney Chow, Editor in Chief March 21, 2017

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...

Tim Terrentine interviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at Miller Auditorium.

Reading Together: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar visits Kalamazoo

Issra Said, Staff Writer March 20, 2017

On the evening of March 14, the Kalamazoo Public Library hosted retired NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at Western Michigan University’s Miller Auditorium, to introduce his new book, Writings on the Wall:...

Second language, second home: an aspect that is forgotten

Second language, second home: an aspect that is forgotten

Cortney Chow, Editor in Chief March 15, 2017

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...

Portage Northern Menchinger tournament

Portage Northern Menchinger tournament

Megna Joshi, Website editor March 15, 2017

This weekend the PN forensics team crushed the annual Menchinger Tournament on their own turf. Portage Northern has been a strong team for many years and with the winners at last tournament, P.N. proved...

The bowling team keeps an eye on the scoreboard at the state tournament. They finished in 11th place.

Sport news: Wrestling and Bowling

Salvador Delvecchio, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

This past weekend, both PNHS wrestling and bowling capped off impressive seasons with several Huskie athletes bringing home the bacon.  In wrestling, both Matt Heaps (12) and Nick Prowse (12) qualified...

PN launches Brick Campaign to help students, alumni, and community make their mark on the new stadium

PN launches Brick Campaign to help students, alumni, and community make their mark on the new stadium

Abby Seeber, Opinion Editor March 14, 2017

Since the news was released that Portage Northern will be building its own football stadium and soccer field, the community has been anxiously awaiting any new developments in regards to the new facilities....

Starting Anew: The Uprooting of the PN Track Leaves a Melancholy Feeling Amongst Track Runners

Lexi Gavlas, Spotlight editor March 14, 2017

On February 24th, 2017 the Portage Northern Track was uprooted following the construction plans of a new stadium in 2019.  Alexa Vanderhoff, Portage Northern Alum and Cross Country & Track Runner...

Cultures as Costumes

Cultures as Costumes

Megna Joshi, Website Editor March 12, 2017

Halloween and costume parties are a great way to dress up as a favorite character and pretend to be a different person. At the same time, it can be seen as offensive to certain cultures because people...

Poom Atiwetin finds new family at NHS while cherishing his birth family in Thailand

Poom Atiwetin finds new family at NHS while cherishing his birth family in Thailand

Cameron Schaefer, Photographer March 7, 2017

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...

Suicide Bombing in Homs

Suicide Bombing in Homs

Meredith Ablao, News Editor March 7, 2017

On February 25th, 2017, two towers were torn into flames by a group of suicide bombers, instantly taking 32 lives, including a senior security official-Bashar al-Assad, who controls the area of the Military...

Falling three stories and living to tell about it

Falling three stories and living to tell about it

Sheila Mwanda, Staff writer March 6, 2017

‘Whoosh!’ I slid across the smooth, marble window sill. It was a summer’s evening and the weather was hot and humid. My five-year-old sister and I, three at the time, were deep into the second round...

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