Veteran PV teacher takes charge as English Department Supervisor
Rachel Cohen, Staff Editor
September 3, 2018
Throughout her childhood, Mrs. Valerie Mattessich always enjoyed reading and writing and says she was motivated to do so by her teachers from elementary school to high school. Before graduating from Boston College with a major in English and minor in Spanish, she graduated from Pascack Valley where she r...
District removes two teaching positions and phases out program
Katie Mullaney and Kayla Barry
June 12, 2018
As the 2017-2018 school year comes to close, so does the French program and two teacher’s positions - one of them being for English, the other being for Art. District eliminates English position With Mr. Shawn Buchanan changing his position to Athletic Director, the District has decided not to replace his English teaching positio...
Teachers discuss Standards-Based Grading in their classrooms
Jaiden Price, Staff Writer
June 11, 2018
Pascack Valley English teacher Matthew Morone utilizes the Standards-Based Grading System in his course curriculum. Last spring, the English office collaborated with Dr. Barry Bachenheimer, the Director of Curriculum for the Pascack Valley District, and agreed that any teacher in the departmen...
Smoke Signal Film Festival highlighted by Zack Latteri documentary
Tara Healy, Staff Editor
June 7, 2018
Casey Lewis's documentary "Pay It Forward," was the last film to be shown yesterday, June 6, at The Smoke Signal's third annual film festival. His film is about Zack Latteri, a student in the class of 2018 who lost his battle to leukemia. "Zack was a very good friend of mine and we all miss him a lo...
Buzzing about bees
Julia Guskind, Staff Writer
June 5, 2018
Two years ago, a native plant garden was planted by the tennis courts at Pascack Valley to appeal to butterfly and honey bee pollinators. Now, Pascack Valley is currently in the process of becoming a Bee Campus. The Bee Campus program aims to transform educational institutions to more sustainable...
The Smoke Signal to host film festival
Kayla Barry, Managing Editor
June 5, 2018
The Smoke Signal will be hosting its third annual film festival this Wednesday, June 6 at 7 p.m. in the PV auditorium. Admission is $5. Following a brief intermission where food and refreshments will be sold, three films will debut: Chandni Shah's "The Untold Story," Shawn Rowan's "Space Oddity C...
Dig this
Katie Mullaney, Staff Editor
May 23, 2018
Throughout the past few weeks, the efforts of many different people went into achieving the success of Pascack Valley’s new organic garden, located in the courtyard. Next year, the food produced will be used in PV’s culinary classes. While it was a team effort, the original idea came from PV culin...
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...
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