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Victory for women in STEM

Victory for women in STEM

Christy Bishop, Staff Contributor October 9, 2018

For the first time in 55 years, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a woman. Donna Strickland, Canadian optical physicist, shared the prize with physicists Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou. Strickland...

Breast cancer awareness month

Breast cancer awareness month

Haleema Waheed, Copy Editor October 8, 2018

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer with approximately 1.7 million new cases predicted this year alone. Many people across the nation are affected by breast cancer, men and women alike. It...

Businesses booming in the Quad Cities

Businesses booming in the Quad Cities

Haley Moore, Video Editor October 8, 2018

This coming year will be a big one due to businesses popping up all across the Quad Cities, bringing many changes. Some are chains while others are local businesses specific to to the Quad Cities. A very...

Presidential alert trial run

Presidential alert trial run

Alana Woolison, Photo Manager October 8, 2018

A trial run of the Emergency Alert System resulted in the first Presidential Alert sent to cell phone owners across the US on Oct. 3. On Wednesday, a notification was sent out to a vast amount of mobile...

ALICE drill procedures

ALICE drill procedures

Cole Hanson, Sports Editor October 6, 2018

Where will the shooter start this time in the ALICE drill? Last week the ALICE drill the shooter entered through the office. He waved at the ladies, they opened the door, and he pulled his starter gun...

Ebola: what’s happening now?

Evin Ersan, Business Manager October 5, 2018

Ebola, one of the deadliest viruses in the known to man, sparked worldwide panic in 2014 when an outbreak of the virus occurred in Africa, killing thousands. But what is the situation now?   The Democratic...

ALICE instead of ALERRT

ALICE instead of ALERRT

Hope Sickels, Staff Contributor October 5, 2018

A.L.I.C.E is an acronym that stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. Roughly 4,200 K-12 schools use ALICE, the number one shooter civilian response training program. Pleasant Valley is...

Driving cleaner

Driving cleaner

Caroline Carlson, Arts and Entertainment Editor October 4, 2018

Many students at Pleasant Valley High School that drive themselves to school usually get their parents’ hand me down car or even their older sibling’s car. Most teens don’t receive a brand new car...

The new ALICE drill

Ava Stigler, Editor-in-chief October 3, 2018

On Sept 27, the Pleasant Valley School District had the first ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) drill of the 2018-19 academic school year. Though the Pleasant Valley district has been...

Companies say yes to voting

Companies say yes to voting

Angela Pandit, Social Media Manager October 1, 2018

Sept. 25 marked National Voter Registration Day in the United States. It is a celebration held on every fourth Thursday in September to bring attention towards voter registration and democracy in the U.S....

Trade war against China continues

Noah Streeter, News Editor October 1, 2018

On Monday, Sept. 24, President Trump and President Xi Jinping unleashed the latest wave of tariffs. Trump raised the tariffs on imported Chinese goods another 200 billion dollars. To retaliate, China raised...

Google drops open source software

Google drops open source software

Shashank Inampudi, Photo Manager October 1, 2018

The phrase “open source software” immediately elicits yawns from most people. However, it’s an integral part of any electronic device. According to howtogeek.com, “If a program is open-source,...

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