Many people feel that the amount of positive COVID tests will increase due to activities on Halloween; activities such as trick-or-treating. I interviewed a Harborfields mom and asked her how she feels about Halloween this year.

Harborfields and the SADD club have teamed up with Comsewogue to celebrate Red Ribbon week during the week of Ocobter 26th to October 30th! The purpose of Red Ribbon week is to promote the prevention of substance abuse in Harborfields High School!

In recent news, some of our students here at Harborfields High School have been recognized for their extraordinary achievements and excellence in music. Ty Ellenbogen has been recognized for his Alto Saxophone Alternate and Instrumental Jazz, Olivia Freiberger for her Soprano and Treble Chorus and Angeline Miraglia for her Alto and Mixed Chorus performance.

The class of 2021 has experienced a senior year like no other generation. With the cancellation of many events such as homecoming, pep rally, and more, the seniors are very let down with the outcome of this crazy year. Although the pandemic has affected schools across the nation, Harborfields has been trying its best to make this year as fun as possible.

The Harborfields Class of 2023 has officially opened up an accessible Harborfields Online Shop selling clothing to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation during this month of October. 50% of all the profits acquired from the clothing sales will be given to this charity.

The school year has just begun and many students are starting to get used to the new Covid-19 rules that have been established. Online learning has become the new normal for the education system but many students have mixed opinions about distance and in school learning.

Have you noticed the creepy signs around school? The ones labeled, “Big Brother is watching you?” Many students have noticed these in the past week, and it has come to student’s attention how weird and unsettling these signs are.

There are a lot of new changes to Harborfields Highschool this year due to the pandemic, students and staff all wear masks, socially distance and work from home some days. One big change to the school itself are the bathrooms.

As each September rolls around, it becomes college application season again. With each year, it seems like more and more pressure is put on students. With loads of schoolwork on top of college apps.

For current seniors, this time of the year can be an immensely stressful time. We all have so much to submit, so many letters and papers to collect, all by a deadline. At times, it feels almost impossible to do.

Halloween, the one day a year everyone gets to dress up in any costume while walking around neighborhoods yelling “trick-or treat”, carving pumpkins, going to haunted houses, and corn mazes. Although this is what typically occurs during Halloween, October 31st 2020 may be quite different.

I know that if you told anyone last September what life would be like now, they would laugh at you. It’s nearly impossible to even think that so much could happen so quickly. In a blink of an eye, March 13th turned into May, and as flowers bloomed we rapidly approached the sweltering heat of August, then short after September. In just an instant, all of our lives changed forever. Still, six months later, things are not back to normal.

COVID-19 has made this year very different from when we first expected it to be but that won’t stop the students at Harborfields! The Heckscher Museum is setting up their annual Long Island’s Best art exhibition for young artists in high school from grades 9 through 12.

We’ve all spent the last six months watching the world unfold in front of us. COVID-19 has affected everyone in the world in some way. No one knew if we’d end up back in high school ever again. Luckily we get to come back to school, but we are unlucky in so many ways.

Here at Harborfields High School the rules that we have to follow inside of the classrooms are not too bad, but for the incoming freshman, it can be harder for them to get used to. As for the seniors, it limits time with their friends and teachers that they will soon be leaving.

f only everyone could fight to want to go to school everyday. Maybe then we could all work out a better system. Maverick Stow is a high school senior at William Floyd High School. He vowed to himself this year that he would go to school every day of the week until a change was made in the school system.

In an unprecedented school year, students of HF have a different mentality heading into this confusing and uncertain future.

The new ways of walking in the hallways this year are very different from years past due to the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic.

Due to certain protocols regarding Covid-19, Harborfields High School has had to undergo big changes to the building. While we were all used to going to school and entering through any of the doors in past years, this year is a bit different.

How to wear your mask? If your mask isn’t covering your nose, you’re wearing your mask wrong. It might be more comfortable, but the point of wearing a mask is to prevent you from getting Covid or spreading Covid so, leaving your nose uncovered is defeating the purpose of wearing a mask.