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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...

Coach Joe Street practices excavator skills on a field trip at a C. W. Matthews
project. All of the students got to give it a try as well.

HEO State Champions

Selia Kelly and Harrison Pacin December 16, 2024

Heavy Equipment Operations is a new pathway added to the growing list of Career, Technical, Agricultural Education options. The class teaches students about the operation and use of heavy equipment excavators,...

District to add weapon detection, AI to increase safety

District to add weapon detection, AI to increase safety

Amelia Jenkins, Editor-In-Chief of Print Newspaper December 16, 2024

Concerned parents and community members gathered for a second round of virtual town hall meetings with Superintendent Dr. Grant Rivera, Chief Operations Officer Mike Santoro, and Brian Wallace, the district...

Be aware: PSA on social media

Be aware: PSA on social media

Mikaiya Frierson, Staff Writer November 13, 2024

In early August, the MPD reported a case where a Marietta student experienced sextortion. They were sent photoshopped nude photos of themself and threatened to send $300 or the photos would be sent to...

The results are in: Trump wins a second term

The results are in: Trump wins a second term

Amber Ryan, Editor-In-Chief of Website November 7, 2024

The race to 270 electoral votes ended with Donald J. Trump elected as the United States’s 47th president over current Vice President Kamala Harris. What does that mean? Former President Trump, will not...

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....

Lawsuit filed by Marietta Student Life Center Director

Lawsuit filed by Marietta Student Life Center Director

Addison Moreland, Assistant Editor of the Print Newspaper April 18, 2024

Sarah Barbour, has served as the Director of the Marietta Student Life Center since November 2021. She has filed a lawsuit against the Marietta City Schools district and Dr. DeMarcos Holland, the MCS Chief...

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...

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...

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