By Mia Herdeman, Current Staff
It would be shocking to hear a bank employee being heckled on the job: “Hey teller, you stink at counting money!”
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By Noah Mintie, Current Staff
As the Christmas season rolls around once again, many bust out the DVDs to watch all of their favorite movies again. However, as they sift through the shelf, their hands rest on one case in hesitation. Does John McTiernan’s 1988 hit “Die Hard” count as a Christmas movie?
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Inside the Viral Wednesday Addams Dance Craze
By Noah Becker, Current Staff
Tim Burton and TikTok: Things just became weirder for the king of the bizarre.
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Review: ‘Sonic Frontiers’ Goes Where No Hedgehog Game Has Gone Before
By Cole Bruce, Current Staff
Now that the new Sonic the Hedgehog game is out, fans can breathe a sigh of relief.
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‘Tis the Season for Service
Local students lend a hand at Enchantment in the Park
By Dakota Gunnare, Current Staff
Visitors to Enchantment in the Park last week were greeted by the smiling and slightly chilly faces of the West Bend West High School boys soccer team.
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These Jazz Cats Are In Rhythm
Meet the the new local band Melodic Impurities
By Michael Collins, Current Staff
Six music students have found an ambitious way to bring their love of jazz to West Bend.
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The Pupil Becomes the Principal
Jennifer Potter, a former WBHS student and assistant principal, makes an enthusiastic return
By Katie Gloyd, Current Staff
Two months into the school year, students at the West Bend High Schools suddenly had a new principal.
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Meet the New Administration Team at the West Bend High Schools
By Katie Gloyd, Current Staff
The West Bend High Schools started the 2022-23 school year with major turnover in the main office.
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Bird Scooters Flying High and Low
Are the ride-share devices useful to high school students?
By Austin Hunn, Current Staff
Mysterious scooters have started to appear all over West Bend.
Continue readingArt Club Comes Back Strong with Milwaukee Zoo Christmas Exhibit
By Rylie Albert, Current Staff
After the club’s disappearance in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the West Bend High Schools’ art club is back, stronger than ever, and filled with holiday spirit.
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Local Actor Stars in New Movie ‘Goodnight, Light’
By Hasti Ghasemi Vaghar, Current Staff
Tyler Jach never had a spring break like this one when he was a student at West Bend East High School.
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Crushin’ It With Kiptyn
Blood drive spotlights a local middle schooler
By Annelise Paczesny, Current Staff
When the West Bend High Schools student council was considering the theme for its blood drive this year, a young district student with leukemia sparked their interest.
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Prognosis: High School Students Will Become Certified EMTs
By Amber Georgenson, Current Staff
Local student Zoey Bruce never thought she’d be learning inside of a helicopter.
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West Bend Rider Chosen as Ambassador for Mountain Biking
By Amy Daniels, Current Staff
When she attended her first mountain biking practice, Anja Lanser never thought that six years later she’d be officially encouraging other girls to do the same.
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New Lunch Freedoms For Eligible Students
By Dakota Gunnare, Current Staff
Fiona Shaw, a senior at West Bend East High School, enjoys spending her lunch hour with friends at a local restaurant.
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Oh, So Pretty
Student group beautifies school courtyard
By Mia Herdeman, Current Staff
Once a buzzing place, the courtyard at the West Bend High Schools has long been dormant.
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West Bend Students Participate in Democracy
By Noah Becker, Current Staff
Eight teenagers came to the West Bend School District office ready to make a difference in their community.
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New Six Flags CEO Puts ‘More Flags More Fun’ to the Test
By Keaton Beltmann, Current Staff
Normally during the fall, Six Flags Great America announces a new ride for the upcoming season. Unfortunately, that won’t happen this year.
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Speedy Freshman Heads to State
By Cassidy Scherzer, Current Staff
A West cross country runner leaves everyone in the dust as he now ranks as the second fastest ninth grader in the history of both West Bend High Schools.
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Review: ‘Werewolf by Night’ Transforms the Marvel Formula
By Noah Mintie, Current Staff
It appears that once in a full moon, Marvel Studios is still able to crank out a widely beloved film. However, their latest hit brings a long-forgotten ingredient to the formula.
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The Case of the Missing Bubblers
By Hasti Ghasemi Vaghar, Current Staff
The mystery of the disappearing water fountains has been solved.
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Review: New Season of ‘Love, Death + Robots’ is Satisfying Smorgasbord
By Brandon Labecki, Current Staff
The third season of “Love, Death + Robots” offers more of the eye-dropping visual wonders of the previous seasons, with as many odd, compellingly quick-witted and grim stories as the episodes preceding it.
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Milwaukee Film Festival Review: ‘Memoria’ Creates Special Experience
The latest polarizing film from Apichatpong Weerasethakul was a unique highlight of the Milwaukee Film Festival
By Collin Chesak, Current Staff
I fell in love with film over the pandemic, and finally, after two and a half years of attempting to become a cinephile, I was able to visit my first film festival. The 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival was the first in two years to have in-person showings, and being a high schooler in Wisconsin, it was my first real opportunity to visit a festival.
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West Bend Teacher Has His Head in the Clouds
By Hasti Ghasemi Vaghar, Current Staff
Two years ago, Michael Blaskowski had an idea that would literally take off.
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‘I Felt Like I Should Choose the Scarier Option’: Williams Commits to Harvard
By Kayla Lemens, Editor in Chief
Alexis Williams and her friends couldn’t help it. Despite being in a restaurant, they all started screaming.
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Review: ‘The Northman’ Builds a Mythical World
By Brandon Labecki, Current Staff
“The Northman” is another great addition to what is best described as a collection of modern myths behind Robert Eggers’ filmography.
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Rivals No More
East and West soccer teams merged due to low turnout
By Kayla Lemens, Editor in Chief
Despite being rivals in the past, West Bend East and West girls soccer combined this spring to form one co-op team.
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Review: “Secrets of Dumbledore” Revives the Magic
By Amy Daniels, Current Staff
After a large amount of hype and advertising, the third installment of the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise was released April 15, to surprisingly weak box-office numbers.
That’s a shame.
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The Impact of Reduced Days
How do early release and late arrival programs affect students?
By Austin Hunn, Current Staff
There are hundreds of students permitted to have shorter school days on a day-to-day basis, but not much is known about its effects on students.
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Review: ‘The Batman’ Has More Heart Than Brains
By Collin Chesak, Current Staff
With “The Batman,” Matt Reeves delivers a brutal bat noir that is more emotionally potent than intellectually challenging. The movie seeks to be more of an elaborate epic than the intimate character drama of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy. Instead of giving him the arbitrary origin story, Reeves introduces Batman like a stoic western character, down a long hall out of the darkness.
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Teacher Starts Spring Break by Donating Kidney
By Hasti Ghasemi Vaghar, Current Staff
Michael Rahlf, a social studies teacher at West Bend West High School, might be the friend of the year.
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Nifty Nibble Flooded with Changes
By Brandon Labecki, Current Staff
The Nifty Nibble, the campus restaurant at the West Bend High Schools, has had dramatic changes since being flooded twice due to problems in a bathroom across the hall.
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NAMI Recognizes Longtime Volunteer
By Nicole Walters, Current Staff
Even though she retired from the West Bend School District in 2007, Sheryl Smith never stopped teaching at an award-worthy level.
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Dance the Night Away
By Rhys Chesick, Current Staff
After being postponed, the West Bend High Schools charity week and dance are back on.
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Ninth Grade Gymnast Keeps Breaking Records
By Sydney Neuser, Current Staff
Gymnast McKennah Orth, a ninth grader at West Bend East High School, is heading to state in vault, floor, beam and all-around competitions.
This honor follows a season with many highlights, including a single meet where Orth was part of breaking three school records while ending in a tie for another.
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