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Political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz addresses Harvest 8th graders about cartooning and animation.

Award-winning Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz Visits HMS

TRISTAN TALBOTT and ISAAC RUBIN

Lalo Alcaraz is a political cartoonist that has recently been working on a new animated film with Pixar Studios. Lalo recently visited Harvest to talk about being a political cartoonist, and being a consultant for recent animation projects for FOX and Pixar. The feature animated film called Coco...

May 2, 2017 • 3 Comments

Harvest Honor Roll

ASHLEY MCDOWELL and KATIE HAUBOLD

Many parents say that school is their number one priority. Well, these kids worked hard, studied, and lived up to that expectation. These are the kids who got good enough grades got on the Honor Roll. The minimum GPA you can have to be on the honor roll is 3.25. We asked 10 students who were on the h...

March 20, 2017 • No Comments

The Incoming Changes of Harvest

TRISTAN TALBOTT, Staff Writer

In the coming years, namely 2018 and 2019, many physical changes are coming to harvest, at least construction-wise. Next year river will be moving off campus. What does this mean for harvest? Well, now we have some extra space to move, given that they're leaving a decent chunk of property, so we ...

March 9, 2017 • No Comments

Solar Panels

NATHANIEL ALVELO and GIOVANNI BARBOSA

“Harvest is costing $141,224 a year, followed by Redwood, $112,315, Silverado, $97,036, and American Canyon HighSchool, $72,366, records show. Altogether, the four schools are costing the district nearly $423,000 each year for electricity.” As said in the Napa Valley Register for solar panels...

February 15, 2017 • No Comments

The new puppy Winnie!

SOPHIA NAIBURG, Staff Writer

In early November the former  6th and 7th grade science teacher Mrs.Lewis, a former dog owner of Lexie had gotten a new puppy named Winnie, in training to be a therapy dog for the school. Winnie is a coca-poo mixture and is a golden brown color. You can see Winnie in Mrs. Lewis's classroom during...

February 13, 2017 • No Comments

Stay Alive Dont Drink And Drive

DOUGLAS BOZZINI and ALLEN AVILA

During the holidays there are people celebrating all over the world. But some people celebrate too hard. Getting behind the wheel while intoxicated is very dangerous and causes lots of crashes. About 10,000 people were involved in crashes by drunk driving in 2014. And every year 209 children are involved as well. According to the National Highway Traffic Sa...

May 1, 2017 • No Comments

Teen girls’ clothes and shoes that are trending right now

DIANA CALDERON, staff writer

Have you ever seen such cute clothes or shoes on someone and wonder where they got them? Well, I obviously have, and one of the stores that I love the most that has pretty trendy clothes and shoes is Charlotte Russe. Some of the clothes that are actually trending right now are listed below:      Shoes :   Clothes : Mock Neck Open Back Crop Top 2. Floral Bib Neck Shift Dress 3. Choker Neck Swing Top 4. Choker Neck Cro...

March 23, 2017 • No Comments

Beat Boxing

JUAN SANCHEZ, staff writer

Beat Boxing is a talent where you can make special effects/sounds with your mouth like the k-snare, the lip roll, the siren, the water drop, the bass (different variants are there to), and other things too. You all are probably thinking 'Well why would want do this thing called Beat Boxing?'. It does have a purpose but it's for like impressing your...

March 23, 2017 • No Comments

The Fight for Equal Women’s Rights

KATIE HAUBOLD, Staff Writer

On Saturday, over 3 million women gathered all over the world to participate in different marches all over the world. I went to the women's march in Napa, and saw hundreds of people. I didn't plan on going originally, but I ended up going with Sadie Carpenter, Luisa Ortega, Maddie Surh, Berkley Kramer, Citlali Lopez, and Jordan Simi. As we walked...

March 23, 2017 • 1 Comment

Iditarod

GIANNI SANCHEZ, Staff writer

The Iditarod is a 10,48-mile dog sled race with 70 contenders, Each sled team consists of 15-16 dogs and 1 musher.  Did you know that there is an Iditarod racer that is from here Napa Valley his name is Jeff King, He was born and raised here in Napa Valley California until he graduated high school and left to Alaska seeking adventure, He is now 61...

March 23, 2017 • No Comments

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Napa Valley Film Festival 2016

ISABELLA MARGOLIS, Editor

The Napa Film Festival is nearly a week of events where different directors and actors present their movies to judges and at the end of the Festival the best movies and actors and such get awards for their great work and presentations.  This year, 2016, the Festival ran from November 9th- November 1...

November 27, 2016

Election day

By: Allen Avila Election day was a great day for Trump supporters. Hillary's voters were amazed that Donald won after all the bad things he said. But people have a reason to not vote for Hillary. Trump got a total of 290 electoral votes and Hillary got 232. Although Hillary did get the most popular vote, Trump got the required amount of electoral...

December 8, 2016

If Harvest Middle School Chose the President Who Would Have Won?

SOFIA AYALA and BROOKE KNAUER

  A FEW days before the 2016 Presidential Election we opened a poll that asked the Harvest Middle School students "If you could vote, who would you vote for to become president?"   The poll was anonymous, so the students were able to show their true opinion. We had 58 people vote all together. 4% of the votes went to Evan McMullin 6% of the votes a...

November 17, 2016