It’s said that fiction is based on reality. However, reality can be even more shocking than fiction.  Nothing has made this more imminent than the release of the new report from IPCC (Intergovernmental...

Last Wednesday, Amador students all returned to school, donning masks and arming ourselves with bottles of hand sanitizer. However, as the new Delta variant sweeps through Pleasanton and infected cases...

After a year of online schooling, students and teachers have been itching to come back to in-person schooling. As a result of the CDC’s new school guidelines, Dons were able to start in-person schooling...

With the news of Covid cases in our school, students and parents have grown more concerned about the safety of their children, and themselves. Do we risk safety, and continue immersive schooling? Or do...

With everyone in quarantine, there has been an increase in movie and music streaming service subscriptions. Music encapsulates our emotions and there’s no doubt that this quarantine has been a rollercoaster...

The use of graphic images in media has been a topic of widespread controversy for decades. The debate of either graphic images are necessary in bringing awareness to issues has come to a boil in the last...

The gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has been on the news a lot lately, especially with its potential use to help treat COVID-19 and genetic diseases. It has been praised by the media and by the public alike,...

This school year has come with a variety of changes and challenges, some of the biggest ones coming from the College Board. In response to schools supporting distanced learning and all the challenges to...

President Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was an actor, starring in many films before his presidency. Donald Trump, the 45th president, was the owner of a private conglomerate and...

Since March of 2020, the Amador community — along with the entire world — has been on lockdown because of the pandemic. Not only has the pandemic brought very big changes to the 2020-2021 school year,...

The US has reported an alarming number of 45 mass shootings in the last month. A mass shooting is an incident in which "four or more [are] shot and/or killed in a single event (incident), at the same...