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Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

2022-23

The Senior Issue: Yorktown Class of 2023 + Graduation Gallery

The Senior Issue: Yorktown Class of 2023 + Graduation Gallery

Other OpportunitiesPierce ConroyAvery DuehringJasper HaywoodAlex HerbstAvery MacTaggartLauren Isobel NightengaleLandon Zoe PeraltaEthan J. ReisserJohn SharkeyParker Virostho Liam VittersNaval AcademyFord...

What’s up with our bathrooms?

What’s up with our bathrooms?

Scarlett Gray, Reporter June 8, 2023

While our school’s bathrooms are definitely not the most glamorous, they’re usually acceptable enough that they’re not the topic of conversation. However, with the lack of paper towels in both bathrooms, the lack of period products in the girls...

APS Looks To Adapt To The Changing Landscape Of Substance Abuse

APS Looks To Adapt To The Changing Landscape Of Substance Abuse

Mason Wolverton, Reporter May 25, 2023

On January 31, 2023, a student at Wakefield High School was rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious in one of the school’s bathrooms. Two days later, he was pronounced dead from cardiac arrest induced by an overdose. That day, four other...

View from the North Ridge Trail at Sky Meadows State Park

Kickstart the Summer With Some of These Local Hikes

Matthew Wagner, Reporter May 18, 2023

As the bell rings on the last day of school, you walk out of the building, following the stream of students excitedly looking toward the summer ahead. Hoping to get away from the hustle and bustle of Arlington, you retreat to the forests and streams of...

Yannick Tanda: Collecting Computers For Those In Need

Yannick Tanda: Collecting Computers For Those In Need

Lily Dezfulian, Reporter March 21, 2023

As a safety officer, Yannick Tanda is a common sight within our school; he is well known and loved by students. Along with patrolling the halls, he has always aspired to make a change. Tanda is in the process of creating a nonprofit computer lab for high...

By Jeff Turner, licensed under CC BY 2.0

A Look Into 2023 Men’s March Madness

Mary-Frances Dempsey, Reporter March 17, 2023

Every year, sixty-eight American college basketball teams participate in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament known as “March Madness.” The teams are sectioned into four groups and compete in a single-elimination...

Gazette Leader Continues Sun Gazette's Legacy

Gazette Leader Continues Sun Gazette’s Legacy

Celeste Wetmore, Head Editor March 10, 2023

On February 1, 2023, all hopes seemed dashed for Northern Virginia’s Sun Gazette. The newspaper’s parent company, HPR-Hemlock LLC, had tried and failed to secure a buyer for the local fixture. After a somber conference call between the paper’s previous...

Recapping Yorktown Hockey's Past Season

Recapping Yorktown Hockey’s Past Season

Ajay Allman, Staff Reporter March 9, 2023

From its humble beginnings in 2003, the Yorktown Ice Hockey Club has evolved from a small, mainly junior varsity (JV) team to a premier program in the Northern Virginia School Hockey League (NVSHL). Under the leadership of Head Coach Jeremey Ferrara,...

Dear 2022: You're Over. Here's What's Going with You.

Dear 2022: You’re Over. Here’s What’s Going with You.

Carrie Finn, Staff Reporter March 1, 2023

2022. The Year of the Tiger. The year of the Tortilla Slap Challenge and the Gilded Glamour Met Gala. Micro trends rose and fell, and Kim and Kanye got divorced. The year was filled with good and bad, and it became apparent that a few things shouldn’t...

Humans of Arlington

Humans of Arlington

Mary-Frances Dempsey, Reporter February 28, 2023

Launched in 2010, Humans of New York quickly became a national sensation, gaining over twenty million followers on Instagram and millions of website visits each day. The photoblog spotlights random individuals stopped on the streets of New York City,...

Courtesy of the family of Jesus Collazos

The Life and Legacy of Jesus Collazos

Scarlett Gray, Staff Reporter February 24, 2023

In the past year, Arlington honored late local mailman Jesus Collazos by proposing a bill to name the United States Postal Service Post Office on George Mason Drive after him. This bill was proposed by U.S. Representative Don Beyer, from Virginia’s...

Entrepreneurship at Our School

Entrepreneurship at Our School

Coco Rigoli, Staff Reporter February 24, 2023

Students’ small businesses at our school have proven to be the key to financial and personal success. They provide the ability to be your own boss and pursue your passions while controlling your own schedule.Being self-employed, you have more control...

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