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Behind the Scenes: Students Submit Art to National Competitions

Hannah Sul and Khadijah Mohmand March 10, 2025

During the winter, many Lexington High School students submitted their visual artwork to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, a national competition for creative teenagers. Students submit their works...

Reviving Expression: LHS Hosts Annual Poetry Out Loud Contest

Daniel Xu and Charles Tang March 10, 2025

The annual Poetry Out Loud (POL) contest took place during I Block on Jan. 14 at Lexington High School. This year’s contest marks the second year of the event’s revival at LHS since the pandemic, offering...

History in a Different Key: The Controversy and Social Music Course

Sophia Kao and Lena Lee March 10, 2025

Among the many social studies electives that Lexington High School offers, the course Controversy and Social Music is one that provides a unique twist on history—through music. This class has been taught...

LHS Hosts Senior Districts Festival

Aditya Chiduruppa and Rowan Hsu February 24, 2025

For the second year in a row, Lexington High School hosted the Northeastern Senior District Festival, also known as Senior Districts. Students audition for a chance to perform at the event, one that involves...

LHS Hosts Fall A Cappella Jam

Aditya Chiduruppa and Jacob Cho January 16, 2025

On Dec. 7, the Lexington High School Fall Jam featured performances from the seven LHS a capella groups. Fall Jam is the first of three concerts that the a cappella groups will put on this year and marks...

Artist of the Issue: Andie Zhu

Artist of the Issue: Andie Zhu

Nolan An and Rachel Lei January 16, 2025

Andie Zhu, a senior at Lexington High School, is a violist planning to major in viola performance in classical music for college. Zhu has been playing the viola for nine years and studies the viola at...

Madrigals to Perform at Seasons Four to Celebrate Upcoming Holiday Season

Olivia Desjarlais and Elissa Fan January 16, 2025

This holiday season, Lexington High School’s Madrigal Singers (Mads), a select honors choral ensemble, will be performing holiday carols throughout Lexington to celebrate the upcoming holiday season....

AP Art: Creative Expression Within College Board Guidelines

Christina Caro January 16, 2025

AP classes are familiar to many students at Lexington High School. But unlike the clear-cut formulas of STEM APs like AP Calculus and AP Chemistry, LHS’s AP Art class is more subjective. So how does...

Chamber Orchestra Goes Viral on Instagram

Charles Tang and Sid Srivatsan January 16, 2025

Since the start of the school year, the Lexington High School Chamber Orchestra has expanded their social media presence, going viral on Instagram and attracting millions of views.  As the highest-level...

Who Needs a Script Anyway? A Look inside LHS’s Improv Troupe

Renxi Lin and Vito Hsueh December 3, 2024

The Improv Troupe is one of the many performing arts groups based in Lexington High School. Entering the 2024-2025 school year, the Improv Troupe is hard at work, figuring out their plans for the year...

Artist of the Issue: Elaina Li

Julia Do and Callista Guo December 3, 2024

From a young age, Lexington High School senior Elaina Li has been expressing herself through a multitude of mediums, ranging from 2D to wearable art. Li has found that disengaging from traditional art...

An Inside Look into LHS’s Fall Production Treasure Island

Nolan An and Mira Xu December 3, 2024

Preparations are underway for Treasure Island, this year’s fall play at Lexington High School. Both actors and stage crew have been hard at work creating costumes, building set pieces, rehearsing fight...

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