Kaitlin Lewis | Staff Writer Great athletes fall in love with the game early on. Mason Soccer held its annual Youth Development Camp May 30 through June 2 on the multipurpose field. The camp is offered to both boys and girls — ranging from grades fourth through eighth — and gives them the opportunity to learn more about the sport, […]
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Luke Hutchinson | Online Editor Greatness from small beginnings. From May 30 to June 2, Mason Boys Basketball is hosting a summer camp for younger players to gain experience from older players, while exercising their own basketball mechanics. The camp is taking place in the middle school and Intermediate gyms. Junior and JV basketball player Kazeem Adewumi said he enjoys […]
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Alekya Raghavan | Staff Writer On May 12, seniors on the MBC and Chronicle Staffs committed to go to their colleges in the fall. Click below to enlarge and view in slideshow mode… araghavan.chronicle@gmail.com
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Read moreJonathan McCollough | Staff Writer Mason’s newly appointed marching band director decided this job would not be his forte. The Mason City Schools Board of Education approved Greg Benson on March 14. Just a few weeks later Benson quit the job through an email, saying that he will stay at Grove City where he is an assistant band director. He […]
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Jacob Fulton | Staff Writer Junior Kaleab Jegol is changing the world through education. Jegol is the founder of Education for Ethiopia, an organization that gathers funds and runs supply drives to improve conditions in Ethiopia, in hopes of helping the 100 million children not receiving an education. Most recently, the nonprofit partnered with Mason HOPE Club to run a […]
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Juliana Discher | Staff Writer The annual District Art Show was held Friday, April 28 through Saturday, April 29. Click through the slideshow below to view the student art that was on display this weekend. Compiled by Juliana Discher. jdischer.chronicle@gmail.com
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Calista Busch | Staff Writer Audiences do not have to worry about falling asleep during Mason Drama Club’s spring musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, coming April 27. This musical takes place in The Man in the Chair’s apartment as he listens to a record of the musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, and it unfolds behind him. This musical inside a musical tells […]
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Juliana Discher | Staff Writer Prom was held Saturday, April 22. Click through the slideshow below to view the pictures you shared with us. Compiled by Juliana Discher. jdischer.chronicle@gmail.com
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Ria Parikh | Staff Writer German National Honor Society created an event to celebrate German culture and to connect German students. On April 12, German NHS had their first annual Academic German Day in the Mason High School kiva. Advisor Christina Martich said the idea for this day (which is open to any German student) came from a similar event. […]
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Freddie Wilhelm | Staff Writer Students are hoping they come down with a case of victory at the Health Occupations Students of America state competition. HOSA is an international organization which allows students to compete in various competitions pertaining to the medical field. The competition is comprised of 40 events ranging from public speaking to written tests and spelling. Senior […]
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Ashton Nichols | Staff Writer The Mason City School District will be getting a makeover in 2018. The largest part of the renovations will be at Mason Middle School, which was originally built in 1959 and used as Mason High School. Students will not be able to stay in the middle school during the construction period – technology upgrades will […]
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Ria Parikh | Staff Writer One student showed her class that her disability should not impact the way they treat her. On March 14, freshman Hannah Humes spoke to the students of Teacher’s Academy (TA) in recognition of World Down Syndrome Awareness Day, which was on March 21. Humes, who has Down Syndrome, talked to the students about her goals, […]
Read moreArnav Damodhar | Staff Writer On March 21, Mason High School staff administered the first American College Test during school hours free of cost for all juniors. The test consisted of an English, Math, Reading, and Science section. According to the Ohio Department of Education, the class of 2018 requires 18 points to graduate. These points can be earned through […]
Read moreChasing Number One Ashton Nichols | Staff Writer Valedictorians be gone. Starting in 2018, the Wake County School Board of North Carolina will stop naming Valedictorians and Salutatorians. The 25 high schools, varying in class size from 100 to 600, will switch to the Magna Cum Laude and the Summa Cum Laude honors. To receive cum laude, students would need a […]
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Calista Busch | Staff Writer The Comet Skippers are swinging into action around the globe. Through One World One Rope, an organization that helps spread jump rope worldwide, several members of the Comet Skippers have been able to travel around the globe to attend and host workshops that teach jump rope. Sophomore Michelle Crispin said the organization has opened up […]
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Jonathan McCollough | Staff Writer Americanism is not exclusive to families born in America. For the first time in 20 years, a Mason student has been named a state champion for the American Legion Americanism and Government Test. Junior Puran Kansakar is one of 18 state winners who have earned a week-long trip to Washington, D.C, and to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. […]
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