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The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

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Anya Herzberg, Visual Content Editor

Anya’s name starts and ends with the same letter. You could say it forever: anyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanya. Also, she does layout which is pretty cool.

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Fairy Good Advice

Fairy Good Advice

Anya Herzberg and Charlotte Guy March 30, 2022

After polling our helpless, wisdom-seeking Instagram followers this month, we simply had too much good material to choose from. So for our penultimate edition of Fairy Good Advice ™ , we chose to...

Fairy Good Advice

Fairy Good Advice

Charlotte Guy and Anya Herzberg December 17, 2021

Why are there no hot people in my classes? Sincerely, Lone Wolf   Dear Lone Wolf,    We’re going to start this off by kindly asking you to look in the mirror. What do you see?...

May Cookstrip

May Cookstrip

Anya Herzberg, Visual Content Editor May 30, 2021

Hello fellow chefs! This month, we have a new artist: Eleanor Gallay! I love cooking, and Isabelle loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a one-of-a-kind, tasty, unique cook...

Selflessness and feminism during World War II

Selflessness and feminism during World War II

Anya Herzberg, Visual Content Editor April 8, 2021

A professor once said to Stefanie Isser, the only girl, and the only Jew in her high school class, that her sole problem was that she was a girl.  In that class, Stefanie Isser, my great-grandmother,...

March Cookstrip

March Cookstrip

Max Gualtieri and Anya Herzberg March 28, 2021

Hello fellow chefs! This month, we have a new artist: Max Gualtieri! I love cooking, and Max loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a one-of-a-kind, tasty, unique cook strip!...

Anya's foods: February cookstrip

Anya’s foods: February cookstrip

Anya Herzberg and Isabelle Pala February 28, 2021

Hello fellow chefs! This month, we have a new artist: Isabelle Pala! I love cooking, and Isabelle loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a one-of-a-kind, tasty, unique cook...

December cookstrip

December cookstrip

Anya Herzberg, Visual Content Editor January 5, 2021

Hello fellow chefs! This month, we have a new artist: Isabelle Pala! I love cooking, and Isabelle loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a one-of-a-kind, tasty, unique cook...

Anya and Emily’s cook strip

Anya and Emily’s cook strip

Anya Herzberg and Emily Mulderig November 23, 2020

Hello fellow chefs! Chef Anya Herzberg and artist Emily Mulderig are ready to present our… cook strip! I love cooking, and Emily loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a...

Anya and Emily's cook strip

Anya and Emily’s cook strip

Anya Herzberg and Emily Mulderig September 18, 2020

Hello fellow chefs! Chef Anya Herzberg and artist Emily Mulderig are ready to present our… cook strip! I love cooking, and Emily loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a...

Graphic by Aiden Holmes

Second advisory: The snow falls and so do your grades!

Anya Herzberg and Nava Roskes December 22, 2019

Three-day weekends, Thanksgiving break, and few Monday bells: November sounds great! But piles of tests and work combined with limited time to fix grades turns our shortest advisory into a nightmare.  Compared...

Stolen! An inside look at Wilson thieving

Stolen! An inside look at Wilson thieving

Harper Dunn and Anya Herzberg June 9, 2019

We all have experienced the feeling of leaving something behind, panicking, and quickly returning to the spot where it was left. Sometimes upon return, however, it’s nowhere to be found. Those AirPods...

Tracing Wilson's carbon footprint

Tracing Wilson’s carbon footprint

How much paper does Wilson use? Is it too much? By the end of a normal day, the average student accumulates about 14 pieces of paper. That is more than 2,300 pieces of paper per student per year, which...

Singers spread La La Love on Valentine’s Day

Singers spread La La Love on Valentine’s Day

Anya Herzberg, Visual Content Editor March 3, 2019

Sitting in your fifth period, you’re counting down the seconds until class ends. All of a sudden, your boredom is temporarily alleviated as the door opens and you see a choir student peer into the classroom....

Random kid, random gig: tiresome techno at the McCormally-Ward concert

Harper Dunn and Anya Herzberg January 27, 2019

We walked into the backyard of the Rhizome, a run-down, modest house in Takoma. Lights were hung across the yard and people sat around a campfire listening to an odd type of music. We looked to the front...

Don’t waste your snow days on subpar sledding

Harper Dunn and Anya Herzberg December 16, 2018

Sledding. An essential snow day activity, right? But did you know that after all this time you may have been sledding on the wrong hill? We couldn’t stand knowing that many Wilson students were wasting...

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