Batavia Tennis? What’s that? The truth revealed from two BHS varsity tennis players
By Maddie Rea and Alexandra Davis Our school has a tennis team? Surprise ladies and gents, we do. Other sports tend to be taken more seriously at Batavia. When I tell people I play tennis, the response back is usually negative. They laugh or make jokes about how easy it is to play. In fact, tennis […]
Fall wardrobe essentials
By Sam Fricano The time has come around again where the green leaves turn to a beautiful red-orange and the air becomes crisp as a new season begins. While everyone is sad to see summer go, in my opinion fall is the most beautiful season of them all. The entire world around us changes color. […]
BHS music department offers new class
By Grace Borchert Batavia High School has started a new orchestra class, Sinfonietta, for the 2015-2016 school year. Sinfonietta is a sophomore class where orchestra students have the chance to grow and prepare for the audition into one of the two orchestra classes, Symphony and Philharmonic. Students are placed in orchestras that they can grow […]
New Advanced Placement class offered to freshmen this year
By Rebecca Kaminski A brand new course, AP Human Geography, is open to freshmen at Batavia High School this year. The course’s purpose is to “introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface,” according to the AP student college board. This course […]
Author Gaiman has another entertaining read in Good Omens
By Lauren Burnham Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. The full title is a bit of a mouthful, so the common populace mostly just refers to it as Good Omens, or ‘that one thing with the gay angel’. Both alternative titles are particularly apt, although one may confuse the latter […]
Husband, wife duo make Gaetano’s a Batavia restaurant to visit
By Jack Church What does it take to run a successful restaurant? According to Wendy Dibenedetto and her husband Gaetano of Gaetano’s Batavia and Gaetano’s Forest Park, “ambition and pride. I take pride in everything that I do.” Gaetano and Wendy are a husband and wife duo who manage, cook, and serve two renowned, five-star […]
Wegner overcomes cheer injury, its side effects
By Alyssa Stanczak Hoisted five-feet-high off the ground by two fellow cheerleaders, a small error resulted in a dramatic change for Lauren Wegner. While practicing a stunt for cheerleading her sophomore year, Wegner was dropped, hit her head, and obtained a concussion, which caused her to lose her sense of smell and sense of taste. […]
P.E. leadership benefiting BHS students
By Olivia Monzel Laughter fills the gym as the students sprint from base to base or toss a football to their friends. Zachary’s eyes light up everytime he catches the ball as his fellow leaders cheer him on in the background, yelling his name with excitement. Zachary is part of P.E leadership, a widely-known and […]
French students expand their horizons with trip
By Natalie Delcorps According to St. Augustine, “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” Twenty-three students from Batavia awaited a flight to France at the start of Spring Break for a trip of a lifetime, traveling to five different places in and near France. Even though this […]
Interactive BHS College Map!
By Ilena Gilbertson https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/igilbertson.b60be369/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiaWdpbGJlcnRzb24iLCJhIjoia3d0dWZLQSJ9.bhQ8vJEIxXgTY2nPx7cI3A#4/41.90/-88.74