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The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

Incoming 2017- 2018 Echo Staff

Incoming 2017- 2018 Echo Staff

March 24, 2017

Congratulations to the incoming 2017-2018 Echo Staff! Tjessa Arradondo Beck Bergland Chloe Blodgett Culver Carden Jenna Cook Eli Curran-Moore Maia Doherty, Maia Brooklyn Donelson DaShaun...

Junior Annie Van Pilsum-Johnson speaks on behalf of the Youth Development Committee. Her and other High School group leaders trained to run Vision 3.0 meeting within their respective groups.

Committee seeks variety of opinions

Annabella Strathman March 23, 2017

This story has been changed on March 28 to correct a name misspelling. The Echo apologizes for this mistake.   When freshman Vision 3.0 committee member Amaya Fokuo steps into a town hall meeting...

Echo editor-in-chief Maggie Bahnson and editor-in-cheif Ethan Brown hold a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Silver Crown Award. Echo adviser Lori Keekley accepted the award on her trip to New York, New York.

Echo, adviser receive national awards

Sam Orloff March 22, 2017

Echo received the 2016 First Amendment Press Freedom Award and was named a 2017 National Scholastic Press Association Online Pacemaker finalist. According to the Journalism Education Association (JEA),...

Senior Echo editors-in-chief Ethan Brown (left) and Maggie Bahnson (right) discuss content decisions with adviser Lori Keekley. Brown was recently named Minnesota High School Journalist of the Year March 10.

Echo editor named Journalist of the Year

Raphy Gendler and William Phelan March 21, 2017

When Echo editor-in-chief Ethan Brown was named Minnesota’s high school journalist of the year by the Journalism Education Association (JEA), he was quick to credit his co-editors and staff. “I...

Chick-fil-A applied to take the place of the TCF Bank on the northwest corner of Highway 7 and and Texas Ave. The City Council plans to meet to make a final decision.

Chick-fil-A applies to open at Knollwood Mall, creates controversy

Nicole Sanford March 16, 2017

According to Gary Morrison, representative of the Chick-fil-A applicants, a new Chick-fil-A franchise plans to take the place of TCF Bank in Knollwood Mall. “Chick-fil-A is proposed to be located...

Middle school students listen as a School Exec Connect representative asks a question about the school district.

Superintendent hiring firm hosts student forum

Raphy Gendler March 15, 2017

Consultants from School Exec Connect, the firm hired to conduct the search for Superintendent Rob Metz's replacement, hosted a student forum in B135 March 14. Students from grades 5-12 were asked...

Anti-Semitic incidents alarm Jewish community

Anti-Semitic incidents alarm Jewish community

Adah Koivula and Jayne Stevenson March 2, 2017

The Jewish community remains alert after the Minneapolis JCC received a bomb threat in January, according to chief communications officer and assistant executive director Soni Cohen. However, Cohen said...

Neudecker nominated for statewide honor

Neudecker nominated for statewide honor

Raphy Gendler March 1, 2017

Chants of “Mr. Hockey” erupted from the student section after senior hockey captain Bauer Neudecker scored a power play goal against Benilde Feb. 16 — the same day he was announced as a nominee for...

Senior Eben Managbe recites a poem by Maya Angelou at the Black History Month show. Managbe raised her fist at the end of the performance as an act of solidarity.

Black History Month performance offers student-led perspective

Genesis Buckhalton March 1, 2017

The lights in the Auditorium turn off and the curtain draws open to students with their fists raised in the air chanting “we will not be hidden,” emphasizing the show’s theme: Hidden History. Senior...

Sophomore Shellcie SalasRea and Junior Ashley Durand eat lunch in new cafeteria booths Feb. 27. As part of a referendum the School Board hopes to update furniture and expand the lunch room.

Potential referendum progresses

Maggie Bahnson, Ethan Brown, and Mimi Fhima March 1, 2017

Superintendent Rob Metz said the School Board discussed three different referendums over the course of a year to propose on Election Day regarding district facilities renovations. “The smallest is about...

Members learn at an Allies workshop

Local Facebook group attempts to bring hope, strength

Hadeal Rizeq February 27, 2017

The day after the presidential election, St. Louis Park Allies founder Susan Niz couldn’t help but feel sympathetic for minority, ethnic and social groups already feeling pressured and criticized in...

Shari Fox expresses her discontent with the results of the Betsy DeVos hearing by wearing black in mourning. Fox said she joined many other educators in wearing black the day following the confirmation hearing, Feb. 14.

Teacher wears black in protest

Yonah Davis February 27, 2017

Following the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary Of Education, german teacher Shari Fox said she feels appalled. Fox said she worries about the public school system under DeVos. “It feels...

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