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Friday: AP Exams still on sale, New York gang members arrested

Michelle Chen and Michelle Deyski March 3, 2017

This week: February ends, March begins Girls’ lacrosse won in their home game against La Reina by a score of 14-7 Tuesday, Feb. 28. In a home game Wednesday, March 1, boys’ volleyball won against...

New punk band performs at rally Feb. 10. They ended off the rally with a cover of Clashs Should I Stay or Should I Go (Photo Courtesy of Yearbook).

Students form local punk band ‘Los Besos’

Peter Ye March 2, 2017

Noise, noise and more noise — five Oak Park students who share in their passion for music formed a new band at the end of last semester. With this shared passion, students — sophomore Stephen Burt,...

A student donates blood for Red Cross Tuesday, Feb. 7. The Associated Student Body held its third blood drive of the school year hosted by Red Cross (Amulya Maddali/Talon).

Red Cross, ASB collaborate on Blood Drive to save lives

Wayne Xiao February 24, 2017

The Associated Student Body held its third blood drive of the school year Tuesday, Feb. 7. The drive is a collaboration between the school district and the American Red Cross, which ASB has facilitated...

Sophomore Anish Natarajan accepts third place in the Los Angeles Brain Bee. The annual neuroscience competition was held at UCLA (Photo courtesy of Anish Natarajan).

Sophomore takes third place at UCLA Brain Bee

Serene Raslan February 24, 2017

Sophomore Anish Natarajan earned third place out of 92 competitors at the 2017 Los Angeles Brain Bee, a one-day knowledge-based neuroscience competition hosted at the UCLA Neuroscience Research Auditorium...

Students collaborate at the annual regional FBLA Gold Coast conference. 15 Oak Park students will be advancing to the state-level competition in April (Photo courtesy of Sujith Pendekanti).

FBLA students place 9th in annual competition

February 24, 2017

Oak Park students competed in the Gold Coast Future Business Leaders of America competition at Westlake High School Saturday, Feb. 4. Oak Park placed ninth out of 24 schools. Out of the 45 students who...

Oak Parks Academic Decathlon team competed at Pacifica High School for a regional competition. The team placed third in Ventura County and won 63 individual medals (Reprinted with permission fom Aca Deca).

Acadeca wins third at regionals

Olivia Buccieri, Graduated Editor-in-Chief February 24, 2017

After pacing  the speech-preparation halls (characterized by anxiety and white paint), freshman AcaDeca member Rhea Bhutada said she felt good — very good. “All the underlying pressures literally...

New punk band performs at rally Feb. 10. They ended off the rally with a cover of Clashs Should I Stay or Should I Go (Photo Courtesy of Yearbook).

Students form local punk band ‘Los Besos’

Peter Ye February 24, 2017

Noise, noise and more noise — five Oak Park students who share in their passion for music formed a new band at the end of last semester. With this shared passion, students — sophomore Stephen Burt,...

Animator Wes Archer speaks to students in Peluces classroom, Feb. 6. Archer worked on the The Simpsons show along with others and shared his story advice to students (Camille Driggs/Talon).

Cartoon animator talks art careers at OPHS

Camille Driggs, Graduated Sports Editor February 20, 2017

Wes Archer, an animator, gave a presentation to technology teacher Tony Peluce’s animation class Feb. 6. several cartoon programs “Rick and Morty,” “The Simpsons,” Bob’s Burgers”...

Juniors receive women’s technology award

Maddy Quon February 20, 2017

Juniors Sumedha Attanti and Maddy Phillips received awards in the National Center for Women and Information Technology’s “Aspirations in Computing” program. NCWIT is a non-profit organization...

Friday: basketball attends CIF Championships, Aleppo evacuation delayed

Michelle Chen and Katya Kiseleva February 18, 2017

Happy Friday, Oak Park. Here's what you need to know to wrap up your week and begin your weekend: This week: boys’ varsity basketball participates in CIF Championships Boys’ varsity basketball will...

Monday: Evacuations in Oroville and 4-day weekend

Yael Kaufman and Sravya Gadepalli February 13, 2017

Happy Monday, Oak Park. Here’s what you need to know to wrap up your weekend and begin your week: This Week: AP and honors meetings AP and Honors informational meetings will take place this week....

Friday: spirit week

Michelle Chen and Wayne Xiao February 10, 2017

Happy Friday, Oak Park. Here’s what you need to know to wrap up your weekend and begin your week: This week: spirit week Girls’ frosh-soph soccer tied 0-0 against Simi Valley in their home game Wednesday,...

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