Student Spotlight on Kasim Petersen
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
May 29, 2019
What is unique about your personality? My sense of humor is out of this world and I can be sentimental when needed. I've always been the one to go to for jokes or a shoulder to cry on. What is something that you have learned in your childhood that has stuck with you? Don’t trust anybody. ...
Numerous FBLA students earn recognition at leadership conference
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
May 7, 2019
Stroudsburg High School has successfully won more awards from the Future Business Leaders of America, also known as FBLA. Sixty-six SHS students recently attended the FBLA State Leadership Conference in Hershey, PA, with one goal in mind: to earn top honors in their event to qualify for the national...
Step Team prepares for upcoming events
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
April 23, 2019
What to have fun dancing in step with other students? Well, SHS has had a Step Team, and they are always willing to have more students join at any time. A step team is a form of percussive dance in which the dancers use their entire body as an instrument to produce complex rhythms and sounds throu...
Becca’s Closet provides free prom dresses again this year
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
April 2, 2019
For the second straight year, Becca's Closet was a stunning success. Becca's Closet is a national nonprofit organization that collects donated prom dresses, shoes, and accessories, and then gives them away for free to high school females attending prom. “We do this so that every girl, no mat...
SHS program benefits students learning to speak English
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
March 8, 2019
Stroudsburg High School has an English Language Development program known as ELD (English Learning Development). Ms. Jocelyn Ross is the teacher for this program. Previously, Ross was a science teacher at the Stroudsburg Junior High School for almost 15 years before adding her ELD certification. She has ...
SHS student fundraising for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
March 8, 2019
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is a 501 charitable organization founded in 1949. It is the world's largest health organization dedicated to fighting blood cancer. The LLS's (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) mission is to cure blood cancer, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the q...
NHS collects canned goods and more for the needy
Elisa-Marie Rivera, Staff Writer
December 13, 2018
The National Honor Society is currently holding it's annual “Can the Principal” food drive. Their goal this year is to collect over 3,000 cans. The event started on Monday, December 3 and runs through Thursday, December 18. As Stroudsburg High school students donate cans or any food items, the NHS will col...
