Music for Spring 2026 - and beyond - has been good to us. April 24th brought us Noah Kahan’s new album The Great Divide and Conan Gray’s Wishbone Deluxe. In addition, April 17th gave us Olivia Rodrigo’s single Drop Dead. (My personal favorite of this bunch.) Rodrigo’s album is set to release June 12th. A lesser known artist who is on the rise, Malcolm Todd, has also released two songs this spring with Breathe on March 13th, and I Saw Your Face on April 23rd. There are rumors

An NHS teacher went on a mission trip to educate teachers and students about different learning tools over spring break. NHS Computer Science teacher Kristen Violette went on her second mission trip with her church to Constanza, Dominican Republic. Violette had previously gone last August. Though other members devoted their time to more faith-based works, Violette took this opportunity to strengthen the local education in any way she could. In the Dominican Republic, only a

As a junior at Newtown High School, myself and other students have noticed the approach to learning has changed. We believe that school today is more about passing your classes, finishing your assignments on time, rather than learning from the content. There are always going to be kids who are considered ‘lazy’, and could never care less about their grades. But overall, most kids want to do well in school and are willing to do whatever it takes to get there. “For junior