Q&A with Craig Rowland: Batavia baseball pitcher strives to make starting rotation
By Tommy Maren Two years ago, Batavia baseball had one of its most successful seasons of all time. Finishing as Upstate Eight Conference champions and making a deep run in the state tournament, the future looked bright for the Bulldogs. However, after a disappointing 2015 campaign, Batavia looks to get back on track with new […]
Ten Great Albums You Might Not Have Heard
By Aaron Viland There are plenty of great albums that are included on every top ten list, and which have a name that seems to carry more weight than the music itself, but what about the great albums that don’t get as much recognition? Here’s a list of ten great albums you might not have […]
Niemiec voted Tribune’s “Athlete of Month”
By Collin Cadle Every month, The Chicago Tribune, chooses an athlete of the month based on internet voting. The athlete with the most votes wins. In our school, senior quarterback Kyle Niemiec won this month. “I feel honored, and grateful to have the people in this community to give me all the support that they give […]
Girls’ cross country hopes to continue season’s successes
By Grace Borchert The Batavia girls’ cross country team is ranked third in the state and heading towards IHSA Regionals on Sat., Oct. 24 with high goals. The varsity team already won its second consecutive Upstate 8 Conference meet, averaging 18:09 as a team in the three-mile run. Emma Stephens, a sophomore and top runner, […]
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 […]