Della Johnson | Staff Writer Mason High School Senior Jiahao Guo’s efforts in helping his community have not gone unnoticed. In early 2020, Guo gathered a few friends together–all of them teenagers–to start the Coronavirus Relief Project (CRP), a nonprofit organization that provides masks and other health-related items to places in need, whether it be internationally or, as Guo has […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer The expectation is to begin college right after high school, but some seniors are taking a gap year before the school bell rings again. A gap year is when students choose to wait a year after graduating high school before pursuing college or some other form of higher education. Many use this time to volunteer, […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer The permanent nature of a tattoo is often viewed as a risk, but for some students, that permanency is the perfect way to memorialize a treasured family connection. People get tattoos for a variety of reasons: to express a certain aesthetic, to represent ideas important to them, or to celebrate the people who inspire them. […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Designer The editorial cartoon from The Chronicle published March 19, 2021. aguo.chronicle@gmail.com
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer It was a seemingly normal day when Shruti Garg was told her father had been rushed to the hospital. Rajesh Kumar, the father of junior Shruti and 7th-grader Tanish Garg, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in November of 2020. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), leukemias are cancers of the blood cells, […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer Last April saw many students stuck at home, but senior Tiya Yempati used her lockdown experiences as inspiration for award-winning art. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is one of the largest student art and writing competitions in the country, receiving nearly 320,000 submissions across 28 categories in 2020. Participants are initially judged at the […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Designer The editorial cartoon from The Chronicle published on February 18, 2021. aguo.chronicle@gmail.com
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Ally Guo | Staff Designer The editorial cartoon from The Chronicle published on January 22, 2021.
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer Language barriers are being broken thanks to Mason High School’s (MHS) Global Language Initiative. Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and American Sign Language are offered during the school day as classes to Mason students. However, the Global Language Initiative (GLI) was established two years ago so that students could learn an even wider array of languages. […]
Read moreAlly Guo | Staff Writer Teaching and Learning Dr. Robyn Jordan, Mason formed several focus groups in order to hear feedback from “every type of family” and “every type of learner.” Each focus group was asked the same questions, centering around what has gone well this year and what needs to change. However, one particularly important question asked to families […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer No matter the distance between them and their audience, the music of the students at Mason High School (MHS) will be heard. Music is an art, and with any form of art, creativity is vital. This year, the music department at MHS had to think creatively in a different direction when developing new ways to […]
Read moreAlly Guo | Staff Writer Ann Vettikkal | News Editor Although school is back in session, the past few months have been anything but a return to normalcy. The pandemic has hit the country with continuous waves, and an end does not seem to be in sight. On Election Day, November 3, the United States hit its second highest number […]
Read moreAlly Guo | Staff Writer In a time of need, high school students are stepping up to ensure that the 2020 election is a success. A typical election requires nearly one million poll workers. Though any student who’s both a senior and at least 17 years old can apply to be a poll worker in Ohio, the position has traditionally […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer When Boone McReedy is swindled out of $15,000, it’s up to him and his ex-girlfriend Darby West to earn back the money, one scam at a time. Following the publication of his award-winning first book, MHS English teacher Kurt Dinan’s second novel, The Scam List, was released in August 2020. The story follows the adventures […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer During the festival of Onam, King Mahabali returns to Kerala to visit his people. Onam is an annual harvest festival celebrated in the Kerala state of India during the month of Chingam of the Malayalam calendar. Despite technically being a Hindu holiday, it is observed by Malayali communities of many religions both in and out […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer Flags spinning, horns blaring, the marching band surges onward in spite of a pandemic. On July 14, Mason High School’s marching band began its summer practice. Numerous health and safety precautions had been put in place to ensure the safety of the band members, based on guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control and […]
Read moreAllie Cohen – Class of 2004 Jenna Connor – Class of 2004 Hayley Day – Class of 2004 Loa DeNegre – Class of 2004 Erin Pyles – Class of 2004 Rob Underwood – Class of 2004 Rachel Bagley – Class of 2005 Chris DeLotell – Class of 2005 Nicole Grice – Class of 2005 Amanda Konrad – Class of 2005 […]
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