Teens work hard and play hard this summer
June 17, 2019
To some, the end of the school year may mean no more waking up early for the next eighty days; nothing but sleep, eat, beach, repeat. Others, however, spend their summer days heading off to work. Freshman Drew Lepping of West Long Branch picked up a job for this summer at Joe’s Bagel and Grill in h...
Captain question: Why do you think your team will win Color Wars?
June 4, 2019
Blot photos by Will Carragher ...
CHS students take a hit from vape culture
May 10, 2019
“Honestly, I think for any high school kid in any climate, there’s this new stigma that it’s cool to vape… like every time you go to party people are always vaping,” said sophomore Hannah Arbeitel of Marlboro. But what Arbeitel referred to as party foul is now making its way into schools ...
E-cigs cloud judgment
May 10, 2019
Originally used by ancient Egyptians to cleanse the mind and soul, vaping has now become a substitution to traditional smoking. According to Vaping Daily, contemporary vaping devices date back to 1963, when Herbert Gilbert invented the first smokeless non-tobacco cigarette. In the 2000s, Chinese pharma...
Vapes modernize over time
May 10, 2019
With a 78 percent reported increase in usage among high schools students in the past year according to the FDA, vaping is becoming more than just a “fad” in teenagers’ lives. But with an increase in sales of popular e-cigarettes like JUUL comes a decrease in knowledge of how these products affect th...
Seniors work through the challenges of mentorship
May 10, 2019
While other high school seniors are sitting in class or eating lunch at 11:15 a.m., senior Grace McCaffrey of Middletown, like a number of other CHS seniors, is traveling to her mentorship site, Six Overground in Asbury Park. On the drive, McCaffrey prepares to spend three hours coding and developing an ...
Online resources “sparknote” a student-teacher debate
May 10, 2019
Move over, Shakespeare. The most-read material in high school English classes is not any play by Shakespeare, or any novel by Steinbeck. It is Sparknotes. Thanks to the accessibility of the Internet and its resources, some students have turned to websites like Sparknotes, Cliffsnotes and Shmo...
Students shed insight into owning nontraditional pets
May 10, 2019
Junior RJ Franzen of Allentown wanted a pet ever since he was a little kid, but couldn’t get a traditional pet because of his fur allergy. His parents surprised him one night with two pets: a hedgehog named Hedgie and a ferret named Carly, who were both a few weeks old. “Usually, Hedgie just sit...
Administrator outlines the cost of a CHS education
May 10, 2019
Collette Flatt, Monmouth County Vocational School District (MCVSD) School Business Administrator, recalls a surprise issue for the school budget after something in the radio station needed to be replaced on short notice. Flatt said that while the $40,000 equipment was a hit to the school budget, ...
Stengele recounts Special Olympics’ impact on daughters
May 10, 2019
There was nothing particularly special about this race. There was no one noteworthy in the pool. There was no record being broken. In fact, there was only one girl still swimming. Yet, every person in the crowd was on their feet. “She had basically only one good arm and one good leg,” said Scott Stenge...
Pull over, police and thank you: tales from the roadway
May 10, 2019
It was an ordinary day when senior Alex Herrmann of Brielle’s heart stopped as she drove to mentorship. The fear that paralyzed her was one that many new drivers face: getting pulled over by the police. According to a survey of 63 CHS student drivers, 23.8 percent have been pulled over all arou...
Shubov dances her way to international success
May 10, 2019
Standing behind the stage on which hundreds of people would watch her perform, freshman Renee Shubov of Marlboro practiced her solo over and over. After her final run-through, she fixed the ribbons of her pointe shoes and stepped in front of the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) audience and judges. ...