After high school most students are heading off to college or to the work force, but graduating senior Francisco Villafranca he has something else in mind for his future. Instead of attending college after high school, Villafranca is taking a controversial gap year. For 6 months he is going to live in Africa and do…Continue Reading Graduating senior Villafranca opts for Africa over college
In the most recent edition of the Gavel, the People Issue, we covered a group of students that have come from different backgrounds all over the world to call Holmes home. These ESL students interviewed each other and wrote news stories about one another based on their lives before and after coming to America….Continue Reading People Issue: ESL Students share journeys to make Holmes their home
Asylum by Madeleine Roux is a horror fiction book. Dan Crawford, a junior in high school, decides to attend a college camp during the summer in the New Hampshire College. The dorm in which the students will be residing was an old sanatorium (also known as an asylum) used for the criminally insane that had been…Continue Reading Book Review: Asylum
This episode of HBCN features takes a look into our cosmetology program, where student work to become licensed cosmetologists while in high school….Continue Reading HBCN Feature: Inside Cosmetology
In case you missed it on paper, here is the digital edition of the May 2016 issue of The Gavel Magazine. This is the People Issue. Download the PeopleIssue…Continue Reading The Gavel Magazine: People Issue
By Lizbeth Perez, Staff Writer It would just be a house if there was no family. Families can create an environment of comfort, unconditional love, a judgement free zone, and they can have more of an influence on a person’s life than anything else. For some, family is their source of motivation. Junior Ryan Schuessler…Continue Reading Making Moves: Vegan, chess-player, and advanced student, Schuessler fueled by big ideas
By Dezaray Villarreal Victoria prepares for her AVID class, as she pulls out her binder she thinks to herself, “Can I really get into college?”, “Will I be able to afford this?”, “How am I going to do this?”. These types of questions are ones that every student that aspires to go to college thinks and…Continue Reading AVID program shapes students for better futures
This episode of HBCN Features profiles band drum major Olivia Astorga. She is featured in this year’s Gavel People Issue as well….Continue Reading HBCN Feature: Olivia Astorga
This HBCN features looks at the dance program on campus, how it is growing across the district, and what that means for students whose passion is dance….Continue Reading HBCN Feature: Growing in Dance
Her grandmother enters her room one night, tears falling down her face, as she tells her that her cousin passed away. In that moment, she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She lays on her bed, in shock, thinking to herself, who could’ve done something so horrible to her cousin. For sophomore Amber Garcia, that…Continue Reading Garcia deals with grief over tragic family death