Midterms cause overall stress and anxiety for students. “In general, when test anxiety is a concern, first try to understand where the stress is coming from,” Oakmont counselor Bethany Olander said. Midterms...

Due to safety concerns because of the Coronavirus, many SAT testing sessions from March until now have been cancelled, affecting many students nationwide.  “I rescheduled [my test] four times,”...

Dealing with mental health issues happens commonly throughout a person's lifetime; however, teenage years have been the most known to see a rise in mental health struggle. With this, teenagers may be faced...

People have had dogs as pets for up to 40,000 years and over that time many breeds have been created. With having so many breeds, there are many that most people don’t know about. The first breed...

Many students have used quarantine as a way to branch out and accumulate new or continue old hobbies. Students have found themselves with a lot of extra free time from being quarantined for six months. Freshman...

Sophomore Gabriela Sevilla recently brought a new club to Oakmont campus in hopes of invoking positive change in the environment through school.  “The Sustainability Club is a club for students...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a well known part of the political world as one of the most feminist Justices of the Supreme Court.  Her passing has affected many citizens all across America. Her contributions...

With Oakmont currently in a distance learning way of teaching, many elective programs have been forced into uncharted territory by having to adapt to these new situations.  “Culinary 2 has adapted...

Krista Myers is a new biology teacher at Oakmont.  She has been teaching for 13 years and went to the University of California Santa Barbara as well as California State University, Sacramento.  “I...

Both small and large businesses have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, but some small businesses around Oakmont seem to be growing during this time.  “When quarantine started, I had so...

Due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, students everywhere have seen themselves attending school in the comfort of their own homes. How has that changed their school learning experience?  “In the...

Many students have been noticing dramatic changes in their amount of screen time due to having to do distance learning. “I’m on my Chromebook all day and after school I like playing video games,”...