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Math Club Hosts End-of-Year Party and Senior Send-Off

Math Club Hosts End-of-Year Party and Senior Send-Off

Rishi Shah, Editor In Chief June 9, 2025

On Tuesday, June 4, the Math Club held its end-of-year celebration, bringing members together for pizza, games, and a special send-off for the graduating seniors. The event featured a custom Jeopardy-style...

Echo Lites: The Spark That Started It All

Echo Lites: The Spark That Started It All

Rishi Shah, Editor in Chief June 9, 2025

There are some journeys that do not begin with a title, a role, or even a plan. They begin with a spark. For me, that spark was writing. In the middle of eighth grade, during a time when the world felt...

Sayreville Student Honored by Edison Mayor for Leading Community Project

Sayreville Student Honored by Edison Mayor for Leading Community Project

Rishi Shah, Editor In Chief June 6, 2025

On May 22, 2025, Edison Mayor Sam Joshi officially honored 500 Smiles: Edison Edition with a proclamation at the Edison Municipal Complex. The project was created and led by me, Rishi Shah, a senior at...

Honoring Brandon’s Legacy: Rishi Shah and Tyler Hill Receive Drunk Driving Awareness Scholarship

Honoring Brandon’s Legacy: Rishi Shah and Tyler Hill Receive Drunk Driving Awareness Scholarship

Rishi Shah, Editor In Chief June 6, 2025

Two Sayreville War Memorial High School graduation seniors, Tyler Hill and Rishi Shah, were recently award winners for the Brandon Tyler Narleski Drunk Driving Awareness Scholarship, a powerful...

Advice from the Junior class

Advice from the Junior class

Gianna Czerniawski, Guest Writer June 6, 2025

It's a known fact that Junior year is the hardest year of high school with students having to work overtime to prepare for college. There's state testing, PSAT's, SAT's, ACT's, and college applications...

Review: Weak Hero Class 2

Review: Weak Hero Class 2

Kayla Cancel, Staff Writer June 6, 2025

Weak Hero Class 2 is a Netflix Korean Drama that continues the intense story that began in the first season. Class 1 follows an introverted top student, Yeon Si-eun (played by Park Ji-hoon), who is a constant...

Sayreville HOSA taking part in promoting the medical club/community with post-it activity

SWMHS Mental Health Fair

Jasmine Kohli, Staff Writer June 6, 2025

Sayreville War Memorial High School recently hosted its third ever Mental Health fair.  The Mental Health Fair was held in the library and open to all students during their Gym/Health periods. The fair...

The 100 was initially released as a book but the show came out faster than the books.

“The 100:” Redefining a Dystopia

Mya Melara, Staff Writer June 6, 2025

The 100 was released March 19, 2014 on the CW. The show was a sci-fi dystopian that had 7 seasons. It begins with 100 teenage criminals being sent down to Earth 97 years after a nuclear war made the...

AP Exams

AP Exams

Jasmine Kohli, Staff Writer June 6, 2025

As May arrived, so did the annual wave of Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Across the country, high school students put their knowledge to the test in subjects ranging from Calculus and U.S. History to Chemistry...

Sayreville National Honor Society to Host Charity Car Wash on May 18

Sayreville National Honor Society to Host Charity Car Wash on May 18

Rishi Shah, Editor in Chief May 13, 2025

The Sayreville National Honor Society is proud to host a charity car wash on Saturday, May 18th, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in the Sayreville War Memorial High School parking lot, located at 820 Washington...

Book Review: "Sunrise on the Reaping"

Book Review: “Sunrise on the Reaping”

Noelle Cleary, Staff Writer May 2, 2025

After Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel to the Hunger Games series was announced on June 6, 2024,  I had one question: Is this series going to be driven into the ground just for profit? After reading...

The USC speak your mind ice bucket challenge takes over the internet

The USC speak your mind ice bucket challenge takes over the internet

Mya Melara, Staff writer May 2, 2025

The 2025 USC speak your mind ice bucket challenge has taken the internet by storm to raise mental health awareness. Created by the University of South Carolina's  Mental Health Needs Discussion Club,...

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