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Mary Peterson's work involves supporting students both academically and emotionally.

Q&A With School Counselor Mary Peterson

Tai Caputo, Executive Editor and Feature Co-Editor March 27, 2025

What can students come in and talk to you about? I think a lot of people think we’re just here to schedule, but we can do so much more than that. We all have masters' degrees and we are trained to...

Filon Kalembire is one of the president's of City High's Culinary Club.

President of Culinary Club Filon Kalembire Cooks up Community and Creativity

Stephie Sumali, Reporter March 27, 2025

Food serves as a medium for connection, creativity, and leadership. At City High, the Culinary Club embodies these principles. As one of its presidents, Filon Kalembire has turned the club into a group...

De Souza has participated in cross country and basketball and is planning to do tennis and golf.

Exchange Student Profile: Nicole Fernandes de Souza

Martha Willard, Copy Editor March 3, 2025

It’s the morning of Nicole Fernandes de Souza’s first day of school, and the building is new and unknown. Students greet each other in the halls after a summer apart, a familiar and unfamiliar sound....

Photo courtesy of Tommy Haines

PERFORMER PROFILE: Brody Clarke

Yomi Hemley, Feature Co-Editor March 3, 2025

Brody Clarke ‘25 struggled to tell his mom he broke his trumpet after just one year with the instrument. Instead of facing this confrontation, he decided to take on a new instrument in sixth grade. Because...

Every year, the Iowa Department of Education Performance Profiles rate schools based on how well they meet a set of standards. But in 2024, the standards changed. City High was “Commendable” in 2023, but went down two levels to “Needs Improvement” in November of 2024. Nevertheless, it is still ranked within the top 10 in the state, according to the U.S. News and World Report.

Targeted: New Evaluation System Drops All ICCSD High Schools’ Ratings

Tai Caputo and Lily Rantanen February 28, 2025
“They changed how they rank schools all of a sudden, without telling anybody, and it’s based on [random] data points,” City High school counselor Mary Peterson said. “That’s kind of weird. How does that reflect how good a school is?”
Kate Meis '25 reads Romeo and Juliet in the library.

To Read or Not to Read?

Yomi Hemley, Feature Co-Editor February 28, 2025

A book was assigned to Megan Swartzendruber ‘25 and various other students interested in a Hills Bank scholarship. As someone who had been reading books consistently since elementary school, she had...

LH RECIPE: Sweet & Savory Crispy Tofu Bites

LH RECIPE: Sweet & Savory Crispy Tofu Bites

Hattie Conover, Reporter February 21, 2025

Tofu is one of those foods that has incredible versatility; this recipe, with its tangy combination of ketchup and soy sauce, provides a delicious and satisfying flavor that is going to keep you coming...

LH Valentines Recipe: Local Spicy Italian Sausage & Cream Pasta

LH Valentines Recipe: Local Spicy Italian Sausage & Cream Pasta

Hattie Conover and Ruby Schulz February 14, 2025

Valentine's Day is a wonderful opportunity to show appreciation and love for the people in your life. So whether you are making dinner at home for your significant other or bringing a dish to a Galentine’s...

Since she was five years old, Abigail Sigafoose '26 has played violin. This year, she was chosen for the High School Honors Performance Series, which will take place at Carnegie Hall in New York City from February 6-10.

PERFORMER PROFILE: Abigail Sigafoose

Lily Rantanen, Opinion Co-Editor January 31, 2025

Abigail Sigafoose ‘26 was five years old when she first played Twinkle Twinkle on the Hancher stage. She was six when she did it again– seven for the third time– and now, at sixteen, she is about...

Photo courtesy of Gideon Levine

PERFORMER PROFILE: Gideon Levine ’26

Tai Caputo, Executive Editor and Feature Co-Editor January 15, 2025

In Gideon Levine 26’s first memory, he is sitting at a small, electronic keyboard, ten years ago, struggling to learn “Mary Had a Little Lamb” after his first piano lesson.  “I got it eventually,”...

Photo courtesy of Reyna Roach

Q&A With Reyna Roach

Tai Caputo, Executive Editor and Feature Co-Editor January 6, 2025

What is it like going from City High to an Ivy League college? I think it’s very strange. I think the problem is, with a school like Dartmouth, [that] you get every single end of the spectrum in terms...

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