District E: Photo courtesy of Bill Leach Bill Leach (Leach is running with Jennifer Gibbons): “[The] education excellence that Cherry Creek Schools has is also a...
![On Mon Oct 4, students dressed as their favorite movie character. Freshman Paige Mack (left) is dressed in her outlandish outfit based on the movie and video game character SCP-049; sophomore Annie Bellini (right) is dressed in her handmade fursuit based on her own original character. The friends relax at the library after a long day of posing for pictures. “Lots of people wanted photos, its fun,” Bellini said. “I was just really excited for everything [spirit week], since I got to dress up and be myself.”](https://unionstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screenshot-16.png)
Creek sports have always been popular and extremely competitive, so much so that Creek sports are attracting student athletes from entirely different schools. Kent Denver senior Amanda Licht decided...
The United States has a long, complicated history with race. For centuries, racially-motivated divisions have sowed hatred, fear, and violence. And as America faces yet another racial reckoning, schools have become the center of complex debates about...
Netflix’s latest original TV show Squid Game has been named Netflix’s #1 most-watched in over 90 countries around the world in just 2 weeks. The show is titled after...
Starting the year with an interview (on a worn student desk and next to a school bathroom) was definitely not what Craig Clark had pictured for his life a year before. In...
![Messages to those affected by the 9/11 attacks featured on the bottom of the front page of The Union St. Journals Sep. 20, 2001 issue. Due to the long turnaround time of a high school newspaper, students were unable to feature more stories on 9/11 in the September issue, but filled the front page of the Oct, 18, 2001 issue (below) with 9/11-related articles. For teachers, supporting students – and figuring out how to manage their own emotions – was difficult. We were instructed that counselors would be available should anyone need to talk. It felt like a surreal kind of dream, math teacher Jim Padavic said. Once they [the Twin Towers] fell, there was a helplessness and sadness and disbelief that this could happen in America. The visuals of firemen and policemen volunteering to enter the towers to help followed by the collapse of the towers was gut-wrenching.](https://unionstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_2701-900x411.jpg)
![For many Creek students, self defense in a fight seems like a realistic option; however, Creek deans say self defense is rarely applicable. “Really, in the 11 years [I’ve been a dean], even going back to middle school, I feel like theres always an opportunity to avoid a situation like that,” dean Brock Felchle said. Nonetheless, students continue to say they would defend themselves or a friend despite the consequences. “If someone was trying to hurt someone close to me, I wouldn’t want to stand for that,” sophomore Muhammad Aweys said.](https://unionstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_3367-900x862.jpeg)
Netflix’s latest original TV show Squid Game has been named Netflix’s #1 most-watched in over 90 countries around the world in just 2 weeks. The show is titled after...
The first few days back from summer break were our first few days stepping into a tentative sense of normalcy – mask usage was recommended, but not required. That is until Sept. 1, when the Tri-County Health Department expanded the fully-masked policy...
