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Freshman Grace Boleyn (second from the right) flexes with her team after finishing in first place at their meet in Dubuque.
Straight-A student senior Jillian Keppy proudly displays her exemplary grade.
A photo of Rahila Amany, an Afghan refugee from Kabul, and her family. She has four grandchildren who attend PV and a scholarship for her loving nature.
In September, Pleasant Valley High School was recognized as one of the Nation’s Blue Ribbon Schools.
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Multimedia
IFL welcomes all
IFL welcomes all
Ramya Subramaniam and Sid Sharma • May 26, 2021

PV Band perseveres through pandemic
PV Band perseveres through pandemic
Restaurants start to bloom once again
Restaurants start to bloom once again
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Opinion
The upcoming Nov. 2 school board race has become divisive and contested, with certain candidates running primarily on their position on banning mask mandates.
Senior Molly Rawat reads her Humanities of the Early World textbook for class to learn about other cultures outside of the US. For US history classes, however, textbooks may not be as reliable on showing a vast number of cultures. In recent years, American textbooks have become disreputable for sugarcoating the historical tragedies experienced by POC in the country, as well as being inaccurate when this information is provided.
Essential workers’ sacrifices have been extenuated by the emergence of a recent trend among teens: “early pandemic aesthetic.”
Haley Humphries gets engaged in Walt Disney World.
Arts & Entertainment
Unauthentic portrayals of Indian-Americans on TV have normalized ignorant stereotypes and have left Indian-American audiences feeling misrepresented.
Poor execution: The misrepresentation of Indian-Americans on TV
Shobini Iyer, Opinion Editor
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Chucky takes over television once again in “Chucky the TV series.”
REVIEW: Chuckys Return to Television
Heath Rice, Arts and Entertainment Editor
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Meet the Staff
Brady Hunter
Brady Hunter
Multimedia Manager

Brady Hunter has been a Pleasant Valley resident since his first years in school. Not only is he a member of the National Honors Society, a group that honors the awards of high achieving students. He also...

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Samantha Pauly (center) performs as Henry VIII’s fifth wife Katherine Howard in Broadway’s production of “SIX.”
Downtown Iowa City.
Physical education teacher Jane Wheeler poses with two of her three daughters.
American Girl dolls from 2014 featuring two custom dolls.

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