Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Mysterious lung disease from e-cigarettes leads to first vape-related death

Mysterious lung disease from e-cigarettes leads to first vape-related death

Matthew Levenson, Staff Writer September 30, 2019

On Aug. 23, a man from Illinois died after he was hospitalized with a severe lung disease that was associated with vaping.This marks the first official vape-related death in the United States, and it is...

Depicted above is a map of all the fires that took place in the Amazon rainforest on Aug 22-23

Amazon Rainforest Aftermath

JoAnn Sharpless, Managing Editor (Online) September 30, 2019

A thick black smoke laid across the shimmering green foliage, while the bright fire flickered and slowly engulfed both the ground and the sky around it, making a wall of red that would be the only thing...

This artwork of a bulldog with a graduation cap on was created by high school art teacher Kaylee Haggerty and is on the front cover of every senior project packet that all the upcoming seniors received.

Previous senior project guidelines updated for future seniors

Cade Skuse, Editor-In-Chief (Online) June 1, 2019

In the past, seniors have always had to complete the senior project in order to graduate from Freedom. For their projects, seniors had to do at least 20 hours of community service, attend a government...

Pep Club sponsors first ‘Lip Sync Battle’

Keith Pawlowski, Staff Writer June 1, 2019

Lip syncing is defined as mimicking singing at the same time along with recorded music. The Pep Club brought such a spectacle to FHS in a way which the school had never seen. On May 24, students and teachers...

A day of refinement

A day of refinement

Ella Walden and JoAnn Sharpless June 1, 2019

On Friday, May 17, the third annual Science Conference took place at Freedom Area High School. The day-long event included over 20 returning alumni and 140 student presenters participating in the school-wide...

Annual Principal’s Reception recognizes student work, scholarship

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor June 1, 2019

On the evening of May 23, high school students, parents, teachers and administrators met at the high school for a cause: to celebrate academic success. The variety of success was all put together into...

A promising night

Madison Snavely, Asst. Features Editor June 1, 2019

On May 10, 95 couples and other students attended Freedom’s annual prom to dance the night away. Tickets went on sale to students on April 15, with many lining up outside of junior class sponsor John...

News-In-Brief

Mason Hedge, News Editor June 1, 2019

Exterior walls at high school to be addressed At the school board meeting on May 9, engineer Scott Smith talked to the board about some concerns with the interior walls at the high school. He said that...

Hourly, the bird watchers record the weather conditions, which are important to the how easy it is to see the birds and if they were flying.

Eyes on the sky

Carly Kusich, Features Editor April 30, 2019

On Saturday, April 13, six students from FHS’s Naturalist Club went to Allegheny Front in Bedford for an all-day event called Raptorthon. Led by science teachers Brian Wargo and Linnea Homa, the group,...

Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center (left) and PA Cyber (right) are two examples of different charter schools in the area that students living in the Freedom school district are enrolled in.

Bills introduced in State House, Senate to reform charter schools

Cade Skuse, Editor-in-Chief (Online) April 30, 2019

This year, there are 74 students who are enrolled in various brick-and-mortar charter schools or cyber charter schools that live within the Freedom school district. With the current state laws, the school...

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