May 2023 Issue

As any student whose gone on a field trip recently can attest, Pasadena High School has problems with school busing. Buses show up late, or even not at all, leaving students and staff waiting. Even when reservations have been made for buses in far advance, buses sometimes cancel last minute, a day o...

Gwendolyn Lopez has been on the staff of the Pasadena Chronicle in the fall of 2021, ever since students returned to school after the COVID-19 lockdown. She has written seven articles and edited even more during her time in Chronicle, and is planning on continuing writing at UCLA, where she’ll begin...

Tucked away in H201 lies a gem of a community: Puente. Currently led by English teacher Mr. Raya and counselor Mr. Perez, the Puente program at PHS has been around since 1993. Puente strives to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented students who attend four-year universities—by educat...

Stationed at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains in northern Altadena, Nuccio’s Nursery has sold azalea and camellia flowers since 1935. In October, the Italian family business announced plans to retire - and hand over the property to Polytechnic High School, which proposed converting all thirteen...

In a corner of the E building, an experiment is taking place. Its founding question: Can we teach kids math much much faster than we currently do? Ten years later, we’re seeing its lasting impact. Was it a success? A failure? It depends on who you ask. Some students say they thrive in the program, b...