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Valuing student participation on Election Day

December 9, 2024 • No Comments

William Fremd is one of the many high schools that provide students the opportunity to sign up to be an election judge. This year, 53 Fremd students applied to become judges. These students spend Election day passing out...

E. Coli outbreak at McDonald’s rocks franchises

Avirag Hosakote, News Writer

December 3, 2024 • No Comments

There have been a multitude of reports of E. coli outbreaks in McDonald’s restaurants from Sept. 12th to Oct. 21st. E. coli is a group of bacteria that causes infections in the gut, urinary tract, and other parts of the...

North Korea joins Russia’s war effort

Leroy Jing, News Writer

November 26, 2024 • No Comments

Reports are emerging that North Korea is sending troops to Russia to back its war in Ukraine. According to both U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence, more than 10,000 North Korean elite special forces troops have trained with...

The death of Hamas’s leader: What’s next?

Leroy Jing, News Writer

October 23, 2024 • No Comments

On Oct. 17, 2024, Israel announced that Yahya Sinwar was killed during an Israeli military operation in southern Gaza. Sinwar was the head of Hamas who plotted the surprise attack on Israel last October, which caused over...

Helene and Milton raise concerns of increasing natural disasters

Dylan Bago, News Editor

October 21, 2024 • No Comments

On Sep. 26, Hurricane Helene touched down on the Gulf coast of Florida. Hurricane Helene was defined as a category four hurricane, due to high wind speeds (between 130-156 mph), which were likely to cause catastrophic damage....

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District 15/211 annual orchestra festival packs the main gym

Ivory Jiang, Editor-in-Chief

October 23, 2024 • No Comments

District 15 and District 211 have joined together for their annual combined orchestra festival on Oct. 16 at 7pm. As the first concert of every year, 300 students from Palatine High School, Fremd High School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Plum Grove Middle School and Carl Sandburg Middle School will perform. Switching off between Palatine High School and Fremd High School every year, this year the festival was hosted...

“The Great Gatsby”: A tale of glamor and gloom

Sol Wong, Graphics Editor

October 23, 2024 • No Comments

Kolze Auditorium transports back to the Roaring Twenties with a theatrical production of The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of the eponymous 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald taught in English classes at Fremd. The show will run from Oct. 24 through Oct. 26 at 7 pm with tickets costing $10. Set in 1920s New York, the play follows Nick Carraway’s encounters with the enigmatic millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his doomed romance...

Out with the old, in with the ‘ew’

Sonali Khanna, Editor-in-Chief

September 25, 2024 • No Comments

At what birthday was getting older not exciting anymore? When I ask this, I operate under the same assumption Coralie Fargeat does in her newest body-horror film The Substance – that your excitement, or even indifference,...

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