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Common Sense

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Common Sense

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Pam Geiser

Geiser ready for her ‘next adventure’

Ellie Lisiecki, Reporter
May 24, 2024

Counselor Pamela Geiser will retire at the end of the school year. She has worked in the school district for 24 years at both here and Webster Middle School. “I love working here. I love working...

Stacy Lesmeister

Lesmeister awarded Kohl Teacher Fellowship

Bella Ratayczak, Reporter
May 24, 2024

Computer Science teacher Stacy Lesmeister recently received the 2024 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellow award. Lesmeister is one of the 304 students, teachers and administrators in...

Henry Eckerdt

Henry Eckerdt

Journalism class
Feb 23, 2024

Junior Henry Eckerdt recently completed an internship at the Capitol in Madison where he worked with State Senator Duey Stroebel. He said that it was “funny to see how performative it was”...

Cassidy Gall

Cassidy Gall

Journalism class
Feb 23, 2024

Senior Cassidy Gall plans to attend University of Evansville where she will be in the pre-athletic training program and will play on the Division I softball team. “It’s been a dream of mine...

Hannah Somorin

Hannah Somorin

Journalism class
Feb 23, 2024

Senior Hannah Somorin is a point guard on the girls' varsity basketball team. She also coaches an intramural basketball team. She plans on going to a four-year college, but does not know where...

Brylie Taffora

Brylie Taffora

Journalism class
Feb 23, 2024

Senior Brylie Taffora is considering a career in the health field. Currently, she works for Partners with Paws, a non-profit organization which trains and sponsors service dogs. She has a dog of her...

Holiday cards were collected in the Community Service office before being delivered to senior citizens.

Students give back to the community

Ellie Lisiecki, Copy Editor
Dec 21, 2023

This holiday season, students gave back to the community by volunteering locally.  The largest Community Service project was creating holiday cards for senior citizens. According to the Community Service...

Yana Sonina

Junior seeks to earn her pilot’s license

Samantha du Vergey, reporter
Dec 21, 2023

Junior Yana Sonina is in the process of getting her pilot's license. She has been practicing since early 2022 through Spring City Aviation, Inc. in Waukesha.  Although she faces a long process...

America v. Belgium: A Timmermans Comparison

America v. Belgium: A Timmermans Comparison

Olivia Milton, reporter
Dec 21, 2023

Senior Charlotte Timmermans moved from Belgium last year, and she has noticed some differences between living here and living in Belgium.  Timmermans said students at her former school have seven 50-minute...

Global Scholars travel to 3 European countries

Global Scholars travel to 3 European countries

Audrey Fast and Lucy Pahl
Dec 21, 2023

  Thirty people traveled on the Global Scholars trip in June. The 11-day trip spanned three countries: Turkey, Italy and Greece.  Twenty-six students traveled with four chaperones: Global Scholars...

Donation collection area for the Kapco Kids2Kids toy drive. Courtesy of Braden Baken

Student Council organizes community toy drive

Ellie Lisiecki, assistant editor
Dec 21, 2023

The Student Council recently collected an estimated 1,600 toys in a community toy drive for the Kapco Kids2Kids Toy Drive.  Toys were collected at all schools in the district. In previous years, Stu...

This 1926 Cedariel yearbook is displayed at the Cedarburg History Museum.

Established in 1896: the roots of CHS

Ellie Lisiecki, Assistant Editor
Nov 20, 2023

Educational Roots, 1840s-1890s Although it is obvious CHS has changed since its establishment over a century ago, we probably do not stop to think about how much it has evolved.  According to Cedarburg...

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