The Arcata High School Pepperbox, 1720 M Street, Arcata, CA (2024)

06/13/2023

Ossian-Briar-Bonpane, Co-Photo Editor 16th March 2023 “It’s not what you know, but who you know” is a phrase I have been hearing a lot lately. When I spoke with some well-known students, I discovered that they have made an imprint by being friendly and outgoing to as many people as possible. I took to Instagram to ask our very own Pepperbox Instagram followers who they think are the most loved, celebrated, and “celebrity-like” students....

Ossian-Briar-Bonpane, Co-Photo Editor 16th March 2023 “It’s not what you know, but who you know” is a phrase I have been hearing a lot lately. When I spoke with some well-known students, I discover…

06/13/2023

Jasmine McKnight, Business Manager If approved, the club could potentially meet at the Humboldt Trap and S***t Club in McKinleyville(Photo Credits: Jasmine McKnight) A clay target shooting club may be coming to Arcata High School next year, but the proposed club has already generated some controversy. While some students are excited about the possibility of the new extracurricular activity, others have raised concerns about gun safety and the appropriateness of a shooting club in a school setting....

Jasmine McKnight, Business Manager If approved, the club could potentially meet at the Humboldt Trap and S***t Club in McKinleyville(Photo Credits: Jasmine McKnight) A clay target shooting club may…

06/13/2023

Julian Wan, Online Editor 16th March, 2023 John Gerving warming up backstage before he performs (Photo Credit: Julian Wan) John Gerving. A man of many names. You may know him as John. Or Johnny. Some even call him by his full name, John Gerving. Occasionally people call him “Johnny Magic Hands,” one of his nicknames that originated during his freshman year due to his insane piano skills....

Julian Wan, Online Editor 16th March, 2023 John Gerving warming up backstage before he performs (Photo Credit: Julian Wan) John Gerving. A man of many names. You may know him as John. Or Johnny. So…

06/13/2023

Dominic Previde, Reporter 6th, April, 2023 Apples. Tampons. Pumpkins. These are some of the items Head Custodian Jim Hogan finds lodged in toilets and urinals on campus. Taking care of our campus is not an easy job. This year, Hogan won the 2023 Custodial and Maintenance Services County Classified Employee of the Year Award. Hogan has been working at Arcata High School since 2011....

Dominic Previde, Reporter 6th, April, 2023 Apples. Tampons. Pumpkins. These are some of the items Head Custodian Jim Hogan finds lodged in toilets and urinals on campus. Taking care of our campus i…

06/13/2023

Jaimeanne O’Donnell, Reporter From right to left, Edwin Arguelles-Diaz, Ebelin Angon-Bazan, and Joselyn Bravo-Ortega. Not pictured is Liliana Bravo-Leon(Photo Credit: Jaimeanne O’Donnell) A multitude of students will be joining The Pepperbox next year, but four of them will be bringing something completely new to the paper. For the first time, students will be writing a section of the paper in Spanish....

Jaimeanne O’Donnell, Reporter From right to left, Edwin Arguelles-Diaz, Ebelin Angon-Bazan, and Joselyn Bravo-Ortega. Not pictured is Liliana Bravo-Leon(Photo Credit: Jaimeanne O’Donnell) A multitu…

06/13/2023

Jasmine McKnight, Business Manager Miller poses with flowers from her Floral Design class(Photo Credits: Jasmine McKnight) Kelly Miller, an Arcata High School agriculture teacher, has been named 2023 Humboldt County Teacher of the Year, just a month after being awarded with the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Humboldt County Office of Education. “She’s very inspiring. She doesn’t take any of her time to herself, she puts it all to her students....

Jasmine McKnight, Business Manager Miller poses with flowers from her Floral Design class(Photo Credits: Jasmine McKnight) Kelly Miller, an Arcata High School agriculture teacher, has been named 20…

06/13/2023

Dylan Berman, Editor in Chief 13th June, 2023 Many students, especially during prom season, have met with Arcata High’s Dean of Students, Jessie Burns. Burns is moving on from the role of Dean of Students next school year, and sat down with me to reflect on her current job, which goes beyond just handling students’ minutes. “My background is as a school psychologist and a special education administrator,” she said....

Dylan Berman, Editor in Chief 13th June, 2023 Many students, especially during prom season, have met with Arcata High’s Dean of Students, Jessie Burns. Burns is moving on from the role of Dean of S…

06/13/2023

Dylan Berman, Editor in Chief 13th June, 2023 Lex Rohn helps a student with a project during woodshop(Photo Credit: Dylan Berman) Lex Rohn, who has taught at Arcata High for seven years, is saying goodbye to the job. Before AHS he taught at Freshwater School, taught special programs in Eureka City Schools, and taught at Humboldt’s Court and Community schools, run through the county Office of Education....

Dylan Berman, Editor in Chief 13th June, 2023 Lex Rohn helps a student with a project during woodshop(Photo Credit: Dylan Berman) Lex Rohn, who has taught at Arcata High for seven years, is saying …

03/27/2023

Ilana Maclay, News Editor 27th March, 2023 AAI students paint wall outside the FAB.(Photo Credit: Ossian Briar-Bopanne) You may have seen the halfway-painted, bright pink wall outside of the cafeteria on the FAB. What’s going on with that? “We’re going to be completing two mural projects ,” Tim Clewell, AAI mural masterclass teacher, said. “We’ve got one that’s right outside the music wing in the FAB–the bright pink one–and I’m waiting on approval from PG&E to paint a box outside of the FAB.” …...

Ilana Maclay, News Editor 27th March, 2023 AAI students paint wall outside the FAB.(Photo Credit: Ossian Briar-Bopanne) You may have seen the halfway-painted, bright pink wall outside of the cafete…

03/09/2023

Laura Laux, Reporter 9th January, 2023 The proper materials are not being recycled into the proper bins.Finn Clark/PEPPERBOX You throw your empty Yerba can in the recycling bin on campus, and you assume that it is going to be recycled. You are wrong. Currently, Arcata High School does not recycle cans, plastic containers, or bottles. The waste from the recycling bins goes into the same dumpster as all the other trash on campus....

Laura Laux, Reporter 9th January, 2023 The proper materials are not being recycled into the proper bins.Finn Clark/PEPPERBOX You throw your empty Yerba can in the recycling bin on campus, and you a…

03/09/2023

Emma Kaber, A&E Editor 9th January, 2023 You might be looking at the page right now, judging me for not knowing the common fact that tomatoes are fruits. I never said that tomatoes aren’t fruits. I said tomatoes are vegetables. If you thought I didn’t know that tomatoes are fruits, you need to do research on logical fallacies. That was an example of false dichotomy....

Emma Kaber, A&E Editor 9th January, 2023 You might be looking at the page right now, judging me for not knowing the common fact that tomatoes are fruits. I never said that tomatoes aren’t fruit…

03/09/2023

Finn Clark, Feature Editor 9th January, 2023 Following the recent Pepperbox article “Adidas Dropped (Kan)Ye, Why Won’t Meilke?”, the Kanye West for President poster has been removed from Mielke’s classroom. The poster was seen as harmful by many communities on campus. “I think it negatively affected students because you probably viewed him as, like, possibly having anti-Semitic views,” senior Sparrow Ray-Keneko stated....

Finn Clark, Feature Editor 9th January, 2023 Following the recent Pepperbox article “Adidas Dropped (Kan)Ye, Why Won’t Meilke?”, the Kanye West for President poster has been removed from Mielke’s c…

01/31/2023

Raymi Sharp, Reporter 29th November, 2022 Black Student Union president, senior Elisha Green. (Photo Credit: Raymi Sharp) Black Student Union at AHS was founded in 2018. It was run by President Nishyra Aaron and Vice President Lavender Weburg with Shannon Kresge as the teacher advisor. The goal of the club is to spread awareness about African American issues. Today BSU is a club represented by students of varying ethnicities and grades run by President Elisha Green, with Danielle Witten and Shannon Kresge as co-advisors....

Raymi Sharp, Reporter 29th November, 2022 Black Student Union president, senior Elisha Green. (Photo Credit: Raymi Sharp) Black Student Union at AHS was founded in 2018. It was run by President Nis…

01/31/2023

Madelyn Conley, Co-Editor in Chief 29th November, 2022 Toni’s is a 24-hour restaurant that serves basically everything and anything. Located in Arcata, Toni’s is frequently visited by Arcata High and McKinleyville High School students. My question is; why? I have lived in Eureka all of my life, until just recently when my family moved to McKinleyville in January of 2022. I didn’t even know that Toni’s existed until then....

Madelyn Conley, Co-Editor in Chief 29th November, 2022 Toni’s is a 24-hour restaurant that serves basically everything and anything. Located in Arcata, Toni’s is frequently visited by Arcata High a…

01/31/2023

Jaimeanne O'Donnell, Reporter 28th, November, 2022 It’s safe to say that bullies don’t intimidate people and take money for school lunch anymore because Arcata High students splurge on off campus lunch. How much money do freshmen at Arcata High School spend on lunch per month off campus? Well, let’s find out. Taegan Clancy, a freshman, stated, “I usually go every day.” He said his daily expenditures fall somewhere between eight and ten dollars each day....

Jaimeanne O’Donnell, Reporter 28th, November, 2022 It’s safe to say that bullies don’t intimidate people and take money for school lunch anymore because Arcata High students splurge on off ca…

01/31/2023

Madelyn Conley, Co-Editor in Chief and Seneca Turechek, Co-Feature 29th November, 2022 Seniors pretending to be dead as they act out their roles in frontof the class(Photo Credit: Madelyn Conley) When you walk into room 206 you immediately feel comfortable and welcomed. We are both in sixth period AP English Lit taught by the legendary Alex Kantner. Most students might think that AP Lit is boring or full of literature by white, depressed, old men....

Madelyn Conley, Co-Editor in Chief and Seneca Turechek, Co-Feature 29th November, 2022 Seniors pretending to be dead as they act out their roles in frontof the class(Photo Credit: Madelyn Conley) W…

01/31/2023

Finn Clark, Online Edition 29th November, 2022 It’s fall in Humboldt County. We’re all being rained out of all the activities we know and love, like skateboarding for instance. Arcata High School has a bustling skater community, but what is it really like to be a skater? You may be asking, ‘How can I become a skater?’ Well, no need to worry,the Pepperbox has just the answer....

Finn Clark, Online Edition 29th November, 2022 It’s fall in Humboldt County. We’re all being rained out of all the activities we know and love, like skateboarding for instance. Arcata High Sc…

01/31/2023

Julian Wan, Online Editor 29th November, 2022 This year, Arcata High School Administration implemented a new attendance policy with a “minutes” tracking system as well as detention to ensure students stay in class and arrive on time. Each tardy will mark 10 minutes on a student’s attendance record while an unexcused absence will mark 30 minutes. Recently, Arcata High’s Dean of Students, Jessie Burns, updated the attendance policy with a “GO LIST” posted in the FAB and a “NO GO list” posted in front of the attendance office....

Julian Wan, Online Editor 29th November, 2022 This year, Arcata High School Administration implemented a new attendance policy with a “minutes” tracking system as well as detention to ensure …

01/30/2023

Alauna Thompson, Reporter 30th January, 2023 It's breakup season so you know what that means, 28 hour long playlists of the most depressing music you can find and eating your feelings until you're sick. Well trust I’m here to help sink in the fact that you are lonely and sad with this playlist

Alauna Thompson, Reporter 30th January, 2023 It’s breakup season so you know what that means, 28 hour long playlists of the most depressing music you can find and eating your feelings until y…

01/26/2023

Dylan Berman, Editor-in-Chief 26th January, 2023 A photo of a fake Lost Coast Outpost article, falsely identifying the minor present in the recently released Wildberries security footage, was posted to a telephone pole on the corner of 16th and J street near Arcata High School. This image, shared on Instagram as well, identifies the minor depicted in the footage as “Samantha Hyde.” The name at the top of the article “Max Karson” is not listed as a Lost Coast Outpost reporter according to their website....

Dylan Berman, Editor-in-Chief26th January, 2023 A photo of a fake Lost Coast Outpost article, falsely identifying the minor present in the recently released Wildberries security footage, was posted…

01/26/2023

Emma Kaber, A & E Editor 26th January, 2023 The Lunar New Year symbolizes new beginnings for many different people around the world and around our campus. Lunar New Year started on January 22nd and went until February 5th. The Asian American and Pacific Islander Club (AAPI) hosted a New Year’s celebration on January 24th. The celebration included food, both homemade and catered....

Emma Kaber, A & E Editor 26th January, 2023 The Lunar New Year symbolizes new beginnings for many different people around the world and around our campus. Lunar New Year started on January 22nd…

12/19/2022

Ella Newman, Social Media Director 28th November, 2022 A sign on the wing 100 girls bathroom on October 27th. (Photo Credit: Ella Newman) We have a total of five girls restrooms on Arcata High campus; one at the end of wing 100, one upstairs, two at the gym, and one by the quad. On October 27th, several girls had complained about the wing 100 girls bathroom being locked, This is also only one of two restrooms on campus that provide tampons and pads....

Ella Newman, Social Media Director 28th November, 2022 A sign on the wing 100 girls bathroom on October 27th. (Photo Credit: Ella Newman) We have a total of five girls restrooms on Arcata High camp…

12/19/2022

Finn Clark Co-Feature Editor With recent controversial remarks made by rap artist Ye West, brands such as Adidas and Gap have stopped their business with him. However, many fans still believe they can support his music without supporting his beliefs.History teacher Jeff Mielke has a red, blue and white poster in his class. Along the top and bottom arethe words “Kanye West for President.”...

Finn Clark Co-Feature Editor With recent controversial remarks made by rap artist Ye West, brands such as Adidas and Gap have stopped their business with him. However, many fans still believe they …

10/27/2022

Morgan Ford and Zoe Macknicki, Sports Editor and Managing Editor 27th October, 2022 Arcata High School is big on fall sports, the Tigers tend to dominate and many of Arcata Highs sports have won the Humboldt Del Norte League titles in the past. Arcata High’s fall teams have had very impressive seasons so far. Girls golf started out strong winning each of their tournaments throughout the season....

Morgan Ford and Zoe Macknicki, Sports Editor and Managing Editor 27th October, 2022 Arcata High School is big on fall sports, the Tigers tend to dominate and many of Arcata Highs sports have won th…

10/27/2022

Morgan Ford, Co-Sports Editor 27th, October, 2022 Take a walk into the girls’ locker room at Arcata High, and you will see paint chipping, stalls that don’t lock, and small, rusty lockers. This is what the female athletes of Arcata High face everyday, while the boys enjoy a spacious, fully functional, clean space. If you walk the short distance to the softball field, you might want to laugh....

Morgan Ford, Co-Sports Editor 27th, October, 2022 Take a walk into the girls’ locker room at Arcata High, and you will see paint chipping, stalls that don’t lock, and small, rusty lockers. This is …

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