The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

Menstrual product dispensers in womens bathrooms allow for students to have access to free products. All womens bathrooms at school have a dispenser with pads and tampons.

No more period panic! Minnesota Schools roll out free menstrual products

Lainey Zinda, Social Media Editor April 16, 2024

A new law recently passed in January in Minnesota requires all schools grades 4-12 to provide free menstrual products in women's bathrooms. Students now have access to tampons and pads at any point in...

Students have been required to wear face masks throughout the school year as part of COVID-19 restrictions. With vaccines rolling out, it’s time to do away with masks- at least for the vaccinated students.

Vaccinated students should not have to wear masks

Charles Calderone, Copy Editor June 5, 2021

This school year has taken on a new normal due to COVID-19 protocols. This new normal includes changes to the school day structure, social distancing measures, and most notably wearing masks during school....

Junior Greta Sorenson abiding by the new preventions in the school. She is wearing a mask and following the one-way hallways, keeping herself and others safe from COVID-19.

Administration creates a prevention and action plan for COVID-19

Luci Miller, Business Editor October 1, 2020

High school student’s education dramatically shifted with new precautions at school and the fear of COVID-19. The action plan at school could keep kids and parents quarantined at home for two weeks....

Facebook pledged to block anti-vaccine information. Their algorithm is doing the opposite by failing to block anti-vaccine ads and instead blocking nearly ten different ads promoting vaccination.

Facebook fails to block anti-vaccine misinformation, blocks pro-vaccine information instead

Austin Fierro, Online Editor November 20, 2019

This past March, Facebook pledged to block anti-vaccine misinformation on their site. Now, Facebook’s plan to block ads has been underperforming, and in some cases has even blocked the wrong content. “Leading...

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