The Situation in Israel
May 18, 2018
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After the controversial decision by the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel back in December of last year, the U.S. Embassy has officially been moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last Monday. This action reawoke international criticism from other countries that ...
Marshal Shoves Students off Stage at University of Florida Graduation
Ramnath Jeyaram, Staff Writer
May 8, 2018
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This past Saturday, the University of Florida had its graduation ceremony for the class of 2017-2018, and many seniors had hoped to enjoy their last night in the college that they spent that last four years working in. However, a certain marshal that was present at the ceremony was ...
Quadruple Hit: Consecutive Earthquakes Strike California
Zach Friedman, Segments Editor
May 8, 2018
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On this day, May 8th, Californians were shaken awake as two earthquakes, of 4.5 and 3.2 magnitude, struck back-to-back. These were not the first jolts experienced recently, though, as two quakes struck yesterday. On Monday, there was a 2.5 and 4.5. Incidents like these are ...
Korean War Ends
Harshika Sethi, Staff Writer
May 1, 2018
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Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un, the Leaders of South and North Korea, have planned to initiate a formal end to the Korean War and have downright denuclearized the peninsula on Friday April 27th, 2018, after 65 years of conflict. In part of the day- long summit, the two leaders met in on the bord...
AV ASB Election Videos released
March 26, 2018
The time has come for ASB Elections! This year, the leadership class has gone back to using election videos to introduce candidates to the AV community. The Leadership class has made videos of all the 2018-2019 ASB choices. The videos are available on the Leadership Instagram page (avhsdons), and...
Lip Dub causes controversy on campus
Cathrine Lilja, Editor-in-Chief
March 21, 2018
For the first time in four years, Amador Leadership hosted a Lip Dub event on campus last Friday. However, before the event even occurred, pressing concerns about the music chosen for the Lip Dub created controversy on campus. A Lip Dub is a "music video that combines lip synchin...
AV films Lip Dub
Elizabeth Kostalnick, Staff Writer
March 20, 2018
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Last Friday, March 16, the rain stopped just long enough for the entire Amador community to come together to create the AV “Lip Dub.” Every 4 years the leadership students spearhead and put together this event featuring every Amador student in the school. This year another team, ...
Protest and Memorial Held at Amador for Gun Control
Elizabeth Kostalnick, Staff Writer
March 14, 2018
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On March 14, 2018 over 3,000 schools across America joined together at 10:00 am to 10:17 am by walking out of the students’ classrooms, all protesting gun violence and then holding a memorial for the 17 students that lost their lives exactly a month ago today. “The nationally org...
A missed opportunity to celebrate International Women’s Day
Carsyn Gilbert, Staff Writer
March 13, 2018
International Women’s Day is a day that commemorates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. International Women’s Day was on March 8th, 2018. Though some students around campus knew about the importance of the day and celebrated it, nothing was done on the school news webs...
Comp Civics Wins State Title!!!
Cathrine Lilja, Editor-in-Chief
February 8, 2018
There has been much interest in this year's Competition Civics team. After last years team got 5th in the nation, there has been anticipation on whether the streak of victory could hold, and send the team to nationals once again from their state competition. I am pleased to report that this year’...
STEM education through Treksploration
Vi Nguyen, AVTV Co-Editor in Chief
December 14, 2017
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A simple access activity has transformed into an interactive opportunity for students to explore their creative passions. Statistics and Precalculus teacher, Mrs. Reinke, utilized her passion for Star Trek to expand her hobby and aid students on campus. When Mr. Williams jokingly proposed the ...
The increase of school shootings– do AV students feel safe?
Katalina Garber, Staff Writer
December 14, 2017
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Schools are one of the safest places children can be, but over the past few years this safety has been compromised with the large increase in the number of school shootings across the United States. From 2013 to 2015 there were 160 school shootings in 38 states. 53% were at K-12 schools and 47...
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