Top 10 Stories of the 2018-2019 School Year

This year, three science teachers are taking over Project Lead the Way (PLTW) classes. Chris Dalton will be teaching Principles of Biomedical Sciences, Matt Howard will be teaching Medical Interventions and Dawn Hahn will be teaching Biomedical Innovations. In previous years, Dalton has taught biology in the traditional classroom setting, whether it be genetics or AP Biology.  This year he tra...

During the Snowcoming pep assembly on Feb. 8, history teacher Sean Fowler was announced as Teacher of the Year for FHN. Following the announcement, the gym erupted with students screaming and congratulating him for his accomplishment. Winning Teacher of the Year was very special to Fowler, knowing that it was his students that nominated him in the very beginning. “It was very humbling and grati...

 On August 28, Shelly Parks was announced as the Missouri State Teacher of the Year in a surprise assembly during the school day. The assembly was held between second and third hour in the large gym. The whole student body, staff and many board members were in attendance to congratulate Parks. (Photos by Jordan Milewczik, Phoebe Primeau, and Francisco Jimenez) FHN. Then FHSD. Then St. Lou...

Down in her basement, or her “dungeon,” 18-year-old makeup artist Evelyn Moeckel lays awake at 10 p.m. The anxiety sneaks back every night, but for the past four years of practicing self-taught makeup, this hasn’t held her back from fulfilling her creativity. Her hours of anxiety turned into her creative hours, where she would cope by creating original makeup looks and uploading them to a mak...

It’s 2010 and “Good Life” by Kanye West plays while AZ Anderson and his family dance around their house. It’s game night. They’ve been playing games like charades and hide and seek for hours. For that family, it seemed like nothing else in the world mattered. (photo submitted) “We would all be laughing and having fun and dancing,” AZ said. “My dad was like a big little kid.” On S...

St. Charles will be hosting its 250th anniversary on May 18 and 19, down on Main Street. The city will be celebrating this anniversary with different events, such as a parade, skits and burying a time capsule to commemorate the event. “It’s actually pretty crazy, I haven’t really thought about it,” senior Sydney Wise said. “I didn’t realize it was this old.” Over the past few months, v...

Growing up, we’re told to never hide the truth and never lie. I remember being a kid and getting in trouble for lying to a friend or teacher and having to suffer the consequences, but now we are no longer kids. Even as adults, we would hope that people would know the difference between right and wrong, but sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between what is wrong and what is right. One of my favorite thi...

Credit to Paige Westermann FHSD will be implementing a soft boundary change starting next school year. For the FHN Community, this means some students will move from Fairmount Elementary’s boundary to Central Elementary’s. For students, like Hollenbeck eighth graders Julianna Latham and Evana Vrhovac, it means attending FHC instead of FHN and going into a new school without the majority of their friends, which c...

First established as Henderson Junior High, then expanded and renamed FHN in 1986, the building has struggled to keep up with the growing St. Charles and St. Peters population. Now it’s age is showing with the necessary and constant upkeep. With the building fully matured, and practically outgrown, intentions for the construction of a new building are beginning to take root. “FHN is very likel...

Sophomore Ashanti Dalton passed away on Jan. 22, 2019. Her birthday was Oct. 15, 2002. She was 16 years old. She would have graduated with the class of 2021. Ashanti passed away due to complications from Cystic Fibrosis, an incurable hereditary disorder that affected the endocrine glands. She was the only child of Karen Dalton. When asked about her daughter, Karen described Ashanti as a very loving kid, w...