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Juniors Cole Baumgartner and Harry Corr hold the spirit stick as the class gathers to celebrate their first pep rally victory.

Hoopcoming becoming a tradition

Nyima Jarboh, Staff Writer January 27, 2025

With similarities to football’s homecoming, the newer events of basketball’s Hoopcoming are making its way into Marietta’s long list of traditions. Students dressed up for spirit days and ended the...

Teen vaping is on the rise

Teen vaping is on the rise

Sydney Hernandez, Assistant Editor of the Website January 27, 2025

Despite widespread worries about the long-term health effects of vaping, the practice has grown in popularity among teenagers in recent years, with many high school students adopting the habit. Public...

Advances in diabetes research offers hope for a cure

Addison Moreland, Assistant Editor of the Print Newspaper January 27, 2025

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects millions of people around the world and current studies show that one in three Americans will develop diabetes sometime in their lifetime....

TikTok goes dark

TikTok goes dark

Reagan Kelley, Social Media Manager January 20, 2025

From 2016 to January 2025 the platform TikTok amassed almost 170 million American users. TikTok, a social media video sharing platform, was launched in September of 2016 under the Chinese parent company...

After Apalachee: Marietta’s perception on safety

Sydney Hernandez and Reagan Kelley October 15, 2024

Since the 1999 Columbine, Colorado school shooting, gun safety is an ongoing topic of discussion, especially after recent tragedies such as the Apalachee High School shooting about an hour away from Marietta....

Engineering Mentor Tony Dunbar, and Aarav Amin (9) practicing for the on-site drone competition. They put the drone together.

TSA competition 2024: rewind

Harrison Pacin, Staff Writer April 10, 2024

The Technology Student Association (TSA) is a club that puts in large amounts of work into their projects every Wednesday afternoon. Marietta High School is a part of the Georgia TSA Chapter, an organization...

Morgan Wingo (12) signs her commitment to Bethune Cookman University, accompanied by her family. She will play volleyball at the school.

Student athletes commit on National Signing Day

Lily Konigsmark, Social Media Manager February 14, 2024

National Signing Day takes place on the first Wednesday of February for student athletes to commit to playing at the collegiate level. It is a milestone day for coaches, classmates, family and friends...

Mean Girls: Old and new

Mean Girls: Old and new

Colette DePasquale, Business Manager February 14, 2024

A new version of the Mean Girls movie was released at the beginning of 2024, sparking the attention of both teens and adults. The 2004 Mean Girls was a big hit movie in the early 2000s and is still popular...

Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie" (1928)

Disney’s near-century-long battle with copyright

Harrison Pacin, Staff Writer February 14, 2024

Out of all of the cartoon characters ever made, one probably pops up in people’s heads the most. This, of course, is Mickey Mouse himself. Mickey Mouse and his friends have arguably been the single most...

Gripe on Gripe | Percy Jackson and the Olympians show

Gripe on Gripe | Percy Jackson and the Olympians show

Reagan Kelley and Trinity Seals February 14, 2024

Percy Jackson and the Olympians show is worth the watch Reagan Kelly In recent years many beloved childhood books have been turned into movies and shows. Fans have been overjoyed to see their childhood...

Piracy reigns supreme on TikTok

Piracy reigns supreme on TikTok

Kaia Kirkpatrick, Social Media Manager February 14, 2024

Although TikTok has a reputation for encouraging the production of unique material, many users also use it as a venue to submit pre-existing intellectual property, which is against the platform's terms...

Tennis complex dedicated in the name of Love

Mae Bullington, Promotion Manager February 14, 2024

On Thursday, February 8, 2024, the ten Marietta High School tennis courts were dedicated to Coach Cheryl Love. Coach Love took the girl's tennis team to the state championships during the 1990 tennis season....

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