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 After dedicating over 20 years to Oak Park Unified School District counselor Randy McLelland is retiring and plans to possibly travel as well as take care of his mother.

OPHS counselor Randy McLelland to retire

Emily Francis, Graduated Editor-in-Chief April 29, 2020

After working as a counselor in the Oak Park Unified School District for 24 years, Randy McLelland will be retiring at the end of the year. McLelland is the counselor for students with last names To through...

Iwanoff dedicates over 2 decades to OPHS

Atmika Iyer, Graduated Editor-in-Chief April 29, 2020

Through five principals, seven assistant principals and four Associated Student Body advisers, Student Services Bookkeeper Sandy Iwanoff has spent 23 and ½ years at Oak Park High School. Right out...

Community members place painted rocks along the trail posts of Medea Creek.

Oak Park community paints rocks along the trail posts

Shoshana Medved, Graduated Ombudsman April 27, 2020

Dozens of painted stones now sit on the Medea Creek trail posts, featuring everything from inspirational quotes to Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson.  This trend, known as the #kindnessrocks movement, has...

Local hospitals and medical offices provide COVID-19 testing

Local hospitals and medical offices provide COVID-19 testing

Oliver Carter and Preston Green April 27, 2020

Donning scrubs and masks, clinicians at Sierra Vista Medical Clinic in Simi Valley swab patients whose vehicles are the only physical barrier between the medical professionals and the potential COVID-19...

Plans created for virtual graduation for OPHS seniors

Emily Francis and Jay Dugar April 27, 2020

Following the stay-at-home order and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that schools would remain closed for the rest of the year, the OPHS administration and Associated Student Body began to make plans...

Burgess creates map for seniors to share and receive goodies

Oliver Carter, Editor-in-Chief April 27, 2020

Brainstorming ideas with her parents at the dinner table, Oak Park High School senior Solei Burgess wanted to find a way to unite the seniors who were unable to experience their final semester of high...

Wagging through the crisis

Leonie Humig, Graduated Senior Staff Writer April 27, 2020

I am sick and tired of COVID-19 thinking it has the right to turn the entire world upside down. Quite frankly, I do not think I am delivering breaking news when I say that staying at home because of...

It takes a village

Sam Barney-Gibbs, Graduated Ombudsman April 24, 2020

I am a senior; I’m upset that my graduation will not be the way I have been imagining it since I watched High School Musical for the first time. I am the son of a mom with preexisting conditions; she...

Maintaining community in a time of social distancing

Maintaining community in a time of social distancing

Ellie Hand, Graduated Online Editor April 23, 2020

A mask landed in my garden the same day I found out about COVID-19. Like a light switch, our reality was flipped, the world has drastically changed in the last few months as we’ve known it. We can never...

Love in the time of COVID-19

Atmika Iyer, Graduated Editor-in-Chief April 23, 2020

How many of y’all have spent a gross amount of time taking absolutely useless Buzzfeed quizzes? My hand is definitely raised. I have found out that my Disney husband would be Naveen and I would be placed...

Use this time well Class of 2020

Alex Goldbeck, Graduated Editor-in-Chief April 23, 2020

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” Ferris Bueller once said. I do not think I really got this quote until I started my senior year. I...

Practice must go on

Lucy Anne Heine-Van Fossen, Editor-in-Chief April 23, 2020

Oak Park High School’s girls basketball program has tried to think of creative ideas to keep athletes conditioned and connect to their teammates. Some solutions for the team have included weekly emails...

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