Blog

Nov

08

2024

Living the Football Life

News

The Federal Hocking team revolves around their four coaches and 30 players. Federal Hocking didn't have a football team for three years from 2020-2023, until we received news that we were going to have a new coach. In 2023 Cody Mason arrived. Mason has been coaching for two years now, but he has been helping with football since he was in 7th grade. Mason went to Ohio University for college. He came to Federal Hocking High School one year ago when he got the teaching position as a Physical Education teacher. He teaches 6th-12th grade and he also teaches health…

Nov

07

2024

Local Screams!

Community Events

If you're from the small village of Coolville, you have definitely heard of Murphy's Field of Screams. This haunted corn maze event is a fun and local scary attraction where people from all over come to get scared. I was able to sit down with the owner John Murphy, a well known man across the community and bus driver for Federal Hocking. to get a look inside the infamous Field of Screams. Murphy's love for Halloween goes back to when he was a young child. “I've always loved Halloween, I love the weather, the colors changing.” The roots for his…

Nov

06

2024

From Flight School to High School

Around the School, News, People

Evin Stotts is a three-year staff member at Federal Hocking High School. In the past year and a half that he has worked here, he has done college and career readiness. This year Stotts moved to a different job: math intervention specialist. If he were not doing the job that he is now, Stotts believes that he would still be doing what he did last year. Stotts was born in Athens, OH in January of 1996. He grew up in Nelsonville, OH until around third or fourth grade. Now, he still lives in Logan, OH with his girlfriend and dog.…

Nov

04

2024

Born to be a Teacher

Around the School, People

Spontaneous, kind and friendly. These are three words that would describe the best geography teacher, Lindsay Abdul-Karim. She was born in Long Island, New York on October 2, 2002. She went to school at Oceanside High School. She has been on the soccer team since she was five years old, but stopped after high school. She was part of Sports Night at her school. There were two teams in the school that are called the “White” team and the “Blue” team. Karim was part of the white team. The “Blue” team was mainly made of the popular girls and the…

Oct

16

2024

YES on Issue 1 – Here is Why

Letters to the Editor

By: Darius Pierce The perception of societal change is a sensitive topic for many Ohioans, especially when it feels as if your concerns are being ignored. We can change that. Issue 1, Citizens Not Politicians, is a proposed constitutional amendment that is widely supported by many nonpartisan groups and organizations to end gerrymandering in Ohio. It aims to introduce an independent and bi-partisan organization that draws up the political districts of the state because our current system has been corruptly drawn up. According to the Ohio Supreme Court itself, the maps are deemed unconstitutional. However, due to deadlines with elections,…

Oct

16

2024

The Secret Life of Our AD

People

By: FH Journalism Students Adventurous, smart, and caring; these are three words to describe Federal Hocking Local School’s Athletic Director. Stephanie Evans was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1981. However, she grew up in Southeastern Ohio, where she graduated from Eastern High School. “It’s one of those small schools where everyone knows everyone”. Becoming an athletic director was nothing surprising for Evans. She was involved in administration and she has always been involved with sports. Evans loved going to watch games and playing in them. Her father, being an official, was a great influence. Her father made sure she…

May

21

2024

Ukraine pen-pals

MS Corner

At Federal Hocking Middle and High school this half of the school year, Renee Ripple’s eighth grade class paired up with another eighth grade class at Lycee Anne de Kiev. I was paired up with Kyrylo. I think it was a great experience. We get to learn so much about each other and how we are different and alike at the same time. We had a presentation on Ukrainian folk music. Brett Hill from Dayton Ohio is a musician who travels back and forth from Ukraine to the U.S. He came with Amedee Royer, a music teacher, to show us…

May

21

2024

Ukraine Partnership

MS Corner

I've learned a great deal about Ukraine and their culture, and I learned about professional music artists and about painters. My Journalism class and I have been writing pen pals back and forth to a class in Kyiv. The school is called Lycée Anne de Kiev. I learned about different aspects of their culture, like their types of food and drinks. We met a musician named Brett Hill from Dayton and he has a friend named Amedee Royer, and he talked to us about his music, Ukrainian culture, and the war. He sang us a few songs and we took…

May

21

2024

Traveling Abroad Through Letters

MS Corner

In middle school Journalism class with Ms. Ripple, we have learned many things and have made new connections with others. Something we have been working on for a long time is our Ukrainian pen pals. There are seven people in their class and each of us has one pen pal. Their students' names are Valeria, Anastasia, Andre, Maxym, Ivan, Maria, and Kyrylo. Every week we exchange letters with them. We mostly ask questions and answer them. We talk about food, family, culture, and much more. Earlier in the year we wrote to them and we made presentations about our school…

May

21

2024

Connections from Hours Away

MS Corner

Since January, the students of Ms. Ripples' journalism class has been writing to students in Ukraine. Sounds crazy, right? While there are frequent air raids, they will write to us in bomb shelters. And we will make new connections, and learn what life is like across an ocean. “I’ve learned to have a lot of sympathy for our friends. It makes us realize how lucky we have it,” King said. When they have shared information about the war, they talk about how it is always scary during air raids. Even one of the student’s dad is 3-D printing missiles to…