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With a change in the AP calculus course schedule students debate if they really want to take the class or not. https://unsplash.com/license

AP Calculus shakes up schedules for next year

Mackenzie Prince and Jordan Juliano May 25, 2023

As CHS students began selecting class courses for the upcoming school year, incoming AP Calculus students noticed major changes in this class from the predeceased curriculum. With the start of the 2023-2024...

Students and teachers notice an unbearable stench float through the school and are trying to find the cause of it.  https://unsplash.com/license

CHS halls plagued by strange smell

Lily Howard May 25, 2023

Something at Communications smells fishy. That is if fish smells like sewage and old food. For a large part of the school year, a putrid odor has plagued the halls of Communications High School. While...

Junior Justin Longo, playing Seymour Krelborn, holds Liza Madore’s Audrey in the May 11 rehearsal of the Drama Club’s Little Shop of Horrors. The cast performs a dance in their closing scene.

Students’ talents bloom on stage in Drama Club’s spring production of musical Little Shop of Horrors

Stella Feinstein May 25, 2023

A man-eating plant threatened to take over the theatrical world as Communications High School put on Little Shop of Horrors on May 13 and 14, 2023. Little Shop of Horrors follows a florist’s assistant,...

The first ever CHS lockdown takes place on May 8th after attempted forced entry. https://unsplash.com/license

Staff thwarts attempted forced entry, triggers historic CHS lockdown

Henry Frieman May 25, 2023

Communications High School was on high alert Monday, May 8 after an unidentified woman tried to enter the building during school hours, triggering a lockdown. “I was in the bathroom and I walked out...

CHS discusses their thoughts on the color change of the red carpet.https://unsplash.com/license

Controversy stains the Oscars’ not-so-red carpet

Kylie Aprilante and Kelly Matthews May 25, 2023

While the 95th Academy Awards show was free of face slaps, a new controversy brewed: the “red” carpet. This year’s Oscars ceremony took place on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood....

While boy bands are thinning out in numbers,
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Boy bands are getting moved to the backstreets

Alice Ye and Stacy Lin May 25, 2023

The ‘90s to early 2000s was a time of bedazzled denim, emerging technology and most notably, boy bands playing nonstop on the radio. This era marked the rise of iconic boy bands: NSYNC, Backstreet...

CHS junior Danielle Beattie shows off her artwork at the NAHS art show.

NAHS hosts annual school-wide art show: student artwork put on display, new members inducted

Dara Fisher May 25, 2023

The Communications High School cafeteria was decorated with artwork on Thursday, March 23, showcasing the creativity of students at the annual National Art Honor Society (NAHS) art show and induction. The...

Programming teacher Laura Gesin will be attending Rider University
to obtain her doctoral degree.

The teacher becomes the student: Mx. Gesin returns to the classroom

Kara Gallagher and Phineaus Whedon May 25, 2023

CHS’s college flag tradition has been a staple of the school’s culture since its first graduating class in 2004. This practice is typically reserved for the school’s seniors, but programming teacher,...

Advances in AI lead to concern of integrity in students work.https://unsplash.com/license

Artificial intelligence sparks concerns among teachers

Isabel Santamaria May 25, 2023

With the rise of AI technology, it almost seems we are going back in time. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, was launched in November 2022 and is already disrupting classrooms across the country. Instead of writing...

CHS sophmore's have a health class assignment of  being a parent for 24 hours.https://unsplash.com/license

Baby boot camp brought back for sophomores

Ori Rosmarin May 25, 2023

The New Jersey mandated Health and Fitness curriculum states that students must learn how to “analyze the emotional, social, and financial effects of being a teen or young adult parent.” Some schools...

Junior Claire Cooperman of Bradley Beach participates in 2023 New Jersey Teen Arts Festival.

CHS students sweep awards at Monmouth County Teen Arts

Students from Communications High School joined other collaborating New Jersey high schools at the 2023 New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival, a highly anticipated statewide celebration of the arts. The...

Lily Costa performs on violin at her middle school graduation.

Lily Costa fiddles with her passion for classical music

Ori Rosmarin May 25, 2023

Sophomore Lily Costa of Redbank’s relationship with classical music and more specifically, the violin began as a four-year-old audience member to her childhood best friends’ orchestra performances....

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