Cristina Murillo - Socials Editor
Talking with their rackets: Boys tennis starts season ready to repeat at Conference
For the past four years, the boys tennis team has won the conference. The varsity boys tennis team has started preparing for another great season. Coach Zachary Horn said, “We have a pretty good run going on, we have won conference the last four years, and everyone works hard, and everyone gets along pretty well. It’s a good group of guys. So working together is a common goal.” The team as a whole works well together. Being friends on and off the court. “Our team works incredibly well. Everybody's good friends, everybody's nice and supportive, and able to inspire each other,” said the previous year’s singles three player OH junior Jake Doornbos.
Worth risking it all: Mars’ The Romantic album
Bruno is back, and you can't Mars this vibe. The long-awaited "The Romantic" album, released on Feb. 27, has been 10 years in the waiting as it was 2016 when “Locked Out of Heaven” was released. Are fans hype for the new album? “Nothing will compare to his old music,” said OH junior Victoriana Arriaga. Mars specializes in many different music types like funk, R&B, and pop. His old music has been around for a long period of time and has stuck with the newer generations.
BSA’s Black Excellence Ball: A celebration of culture and unity at OH
Tomorrow, the OH Black Student Association (BSA) is hosting the Black Excellence Ball, a celebration of the culture, achievement, and community at OH. OH senior and BSA board member Angela Hill said, “The Black Excellence Ball celebrates the success of our students with the minority honor roll award, and it celebrates unity as a club throughout the year.” According to the club, BSA is a place to bond with other students through a shared culture, and the Black Excellence Ball is a night set aside to represent the invoked culture that many students experience.
[TRAD.] Noticias: Reglas del gymnasio implementadas en OH actualizadas
OH implemento reglas nueva de gymnasio que reducen el tiempo que tienen estudiantes para cambiarse de cinco minutos a quatro minutos y movio articulos para alquilar dentro de cuarto para cambiarse. Este cambio, hecho por el departamento de bien-estar kinetica, quiere mejorar efficiencia, reducir la tardansa, y limitar obstruciones de traffico en los pasillos durante los periodos de education physica. Los reglas actualizadad applican a todos los estudiantes que estan tomando OH clases de education physica y cambian como estudiantes se preparan para clase antes que las actividades empiezen. Los lideres de la escuela dicen que los cambios estan diseanidos para aumentar tiempo para instruir y mejorar las transitions durante los periodos de classe.
Icy threats in IL: Raids in Chicagoland impact area residents
The most recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Chicago area, called “Operation Midway Blitz,” started this fall on Sept. 6, and enforcement of current government mandates continue now into 2026. According to the nonprofit journalism group The Marshall Project, around 1,600 people have been taken during these raids so far. The impact is felt here in Oswego, far beyond Chicago city limits. “We are not safe," said OH senior Sidney Blanco simply. "Especially because there is so much that is not being said in the news, or out in the media that people know. Not that long ago, I found out that... Renee [[Good]] got killed [[from the raids]],” referencing the Jan 7 death of Renee Nicole Good who was shot in Minneapolis, in her car, by an ICE agent. “[[In]] Oswego specifically, I know that we have a lot of scared people and a lot of scared citizens... a lot of scared friends and family," said an OH anonymous resident. "They are afraid to live their daily lives. They [[are]] afraid to go to the store. They're afraid to go home at night.” Residents are impacted in different ways by the enforcement of the current ICE mandates, and each person sees the situation through a different lens.