GSA hosts Day of Silence for LGBT students
Sarah Tamagny, Staff Writer
May 4, 2018
Not a sound echoes through the halls of Pascack Valley. Students, adorned in rainbow colored hearts and holding note cards walk to their next class. On Friday, May 4, PV students observed the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network’s Day of Silence. The members of PV’s Gender and Sexuality...
Kate Fagan: Keeping Madison’s Story Alive
May 2, 2018
Filed under News, Showcase, Sports
“Mental health is not the absence of mental illness,” is a phrase that ESPN sports writer and author of “What Made Maddy Run,” Kate Fagan, told Pascack Valley juniors and seniors on Thursday in an assembly during Pascack Period. She also spoke later that day at 7 p.m. at Split Image: Secret...
Need to bEAT hosts benefit concert
Victoria Donofrio, Photographer
May 1, 2018
Lauren Smith, currently in charge of Need to bEAT, hosted a benefit concert for the organization on April 12. Need to bEAT is an organization that raises money and awareness for eating disorders. The concert was at 7 p.m. in the PV auditorium....
PV community recounts Armenian history
Sevan Gulleyan, Staff Writer
April 24, 2018
In 1915, Turkish Government leaders set a plan into motion that would forcibly remove and massacre the 2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. By the end, 1.5 million people were killed. This is regarded by most historians as a genocide—a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an enti...
PV community participates in nationwide movement
Rachel Powell, Staff Editor
March 26, 2018
Chants of "enough is enough" reverberated throughout the crowd as marchers demanded gun control legislation and volunteers with clipboards registered teenagers to vote. On March 24, hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country spoke out against gun violence d...
Pascack Valley students participate in walkout
Josh DeLuca, Sports Editor
March 15, 2018
On Wednesday, students at Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale, N.J. joined other American high school students in a national school walkout in memory of the victims of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The event at Pascack Valley was organized by...
Pointed email addresses cell phone use in class
Tara Healy, Staff Writer
March 13, 2018
An email from Assistant Principal John Puccio to all students addressed cell phone use by Pascack Valley freshman and sophomores during class. The email, sent on Monday, Feb. 26, said, “We would like to remind you that cell phones must be turned off during class time and that it is against school pol...
Dance Team wins double national title in Florida competition
Rachel Cohen, Staff Editor
February 21, 2018
The Pascack Valley Regional Dance Team, along with 32 other varsity teams, circled around the dance floor, waiting for the announcer to introduce the winners of each category. The PVRDT huddled with their heads facing the floor and their arms around each other’s shoulders as the presenter name...
Dance Team hosts farewell performance before Florida competition
Rachel Cohen and David Harnett
February 13, 2018
A feeling of excitement filled the bleachers of the Pascack Valley new gymnasium from former dance team members, students, teachers, and parents, saying their goodbyes to the Pascack Valley Regional Dance Team as they prepare to leave for Orlando, Florida, on Thursday, Feb. 15. In Orlando, the team...
PV student to compete in regional poetry competition
Lauren Cohen, Editor in Chief
February 1, 2018
A Pascack Valley freshman will represent the school at the regional Poetry Out Loud contest on Feb. 9 at Bergen Community College. On Dec. 20, PV held its own Poetry Out Loud event during Pascack Period, with the winner, Ava Devincenzo, moving on to the next round. At the regional competition, Devincen...
PV students help peer through GoFundMe page
Samantha Nicklas, Staff Writer
January 29, 2018
A campaign titled “PV Student Being Evicted” was posted on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe on Dec. 27, 2017, the information detailing a Pascack Valley student who, in about twenty hours, would lose her River Vale apartment unless $2,000 was raised by 4 p.m. the next day. To ensure the student...
PV to host Speaker Series
Kayla Barry, Managing Editor
January 24, 2018
Although he does not like to be credited, Brian Gatens presented the idea of bringing in a national-level speaker to various school districts throughout the Pascack Valley area. Since the districts tend to be small in size, Gatens believed that joining forces with all eight districts could bring in k...
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