Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press
Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press
Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press
Cole Skuse

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor

All content by Cole Skuse

News-In-Brief

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
June 9, 2020
Throughout the duration of the conference, overall 100 people joined the virtual event to hear others talk or ask questions.

High school hosts fourth annual science conference despite school closure

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
June 9, 2020
As part of a garden, decorations can be placed between the plants to add color and fill up some empty space.

Sowing seeds for a new hobby

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
April 30, 2020
As part of the potential restructure, the Communications and Secondary Computer Applications courses will be eliminated and replaced with seminar courses for freshmen and sophomores.

High school principal gives restructuring update

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor
April 1, 2020

News-In-Brief

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor
April 1, 2020
Following the 4x4 relay, the winning team of freshman Colin Fricke, juniors David Matsoff and Garett Paxton and senior Matthew Levenson pose with their trophy, proving their victory.

Waiting to get back on track

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor
March 31, 2020
Students and their guardians peruse the different projects made by participants.

[Photo] High school students assist with elementary science fair

Leah McNear, Co-Distribution Director
March 16, 2020
In the high school library, the amount of computer science is very limited. This is just one instance of a lack of computer science education in the district.

District curriculum should provide student preparation in computer science, coding

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
February 28, 2020
Mr. James stands with his students who were given awards for their band achievements during the band banquet.

Season celebrated, achievement recognized at annual band banquet

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
February 28, 2020
As seen from above, the fires are clearing out large areas of land and creating giant clouds of smoke that end up covering the surrounding land.

Burned to the ground

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
January 31, 2020

Freedom to write

Cole Skuse and Cade Skuse
January 29, 2020
New Pa. law raising smoking, vaping age to 21 to take effect in July 2020

New Pa. law raising smoking, vaping age to 21 to take effect in July 2020

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
December 21, 2019
A representation of the current political environment in the United States

Looking through polarized lenses

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
December 21, 2019
More than 2,500 local citizens vote in November election

More than 2,500 local citizens vote in November election

Cade Skuse and Cole Skuse
December 1, 2019
No more room at the kids’ table

No more room at the kids’ table

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
December 1, 2019
After their disappointing loss against Greensburg Central Catholic in the WPIAL playoffs, the team huddles around head coach Colin Williams to see what words of advice he has for the team going forward.

Girls soccer team cut short in WPIAL, PIAA playoffs

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
December 1, 2019
Former elementary school could face abatement, sale, demolition

Former elementary school could face abatement, sale, demolition

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/ Copy Editor/ News Editor
November 1, 2019
After getting their revenge on North Catholic, the whole team met at center field and ran back to the sideline, celebrating their 3-2 victory over the team who had beat them just two days ago.

Boys soccer team enters playoffs, lose in second round

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/ Copy Editor/ News Editor
November 1, 2019
Following a tremendous 6-0 win over Bishop Canevin, the team runs over to the opposite sitline where the Freedom crowd is sitting as part of their celebration. After the crowd cheers them, they run back to their sidelines, excited by their win in the second round of playoffs.

[Photo] The Streak Goes On

Marissa Lammie, Staff Writer
November 1, 2019
Song count, active listeners and monthly payers are some of the statistics that streaming platforms share. The above infographic compares three of the biggest streaming services: Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora, respectively. Please note Apple Music does not have a free service outside of free trials, so the monthly paying users is the number of active users as well.

Evolutions in music brings different, competitive music streaming services

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
October 22, 2019
The night before we left, we painted the famous Fence at CMU. The morning after, a few of us went out to breakfast and stopped by the Fence to take a picture after the paint had mostly dried.

Five weeks to never forget

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/News Editor/Copy Editor
September 29, 2019

Students should pursue academic, professional interests outside school

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
June 1, 2019

Annual Principal’s Reception recognizes student work, scholarship

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
June 1, 2019
Connections can be drawn between where students put their blame in a school environment and where citizens put their blame. In both cases, even if the higher “powers” weren’t responsible for the problem, the lower “powers” expect them to fix it because the problem will always be the responsibility.

Playing the blame game

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
April 30, 2019
Senior David Jansen gets ready for the ball to be thrown to him from third base at the start of a rundown during the top of the third inning against Lincoln on April 8.

It’s raining baseballs

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
April 30, 2019
The National Center for Education Statistic lists the graduating class of 2018 as 3.6 million students. Of those who graduated, nearly 70 percent will enroll in a job. Along their path in high school, 58.3 percent took the SAT at some point and 52.7 took the ACT. On the opposite side, 6.1 percent of high schoolers never make it to graduation as a result of dropping out at some point.

Monopolizing students’ futures

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
February 28, 2019
The above infographic lists some of the major candidates for the 2020 election, as of Jan. 20. Beneath each name is the day he or she took an important step in their campaign and their importance.

Looking forward with 2020 vision

Cole Skuse, Copy Editor/Business Manager
February 1, 2019
"I’m Not Scared… I’m Prepared!” by Julia Cook was a book that elementary students in kindergarten through second grade read to learn about an active intruder environment, as a suitable alternative to the active intruder drills at the middle school and high school for students in third through 12th grade.

Freedom schools hold active intruder drill, students hold mixed opinions

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
December 21, 2018
Looking into false mirrors

Looking into false mirrors

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
November 30, 2018
The above charts shows the percentage of students that passed the PSSA that that took last year in the district as well as the statewide average. In order to pass the PSSA, students must score a proficient or advanced.

Administrators give ‘State of the District’ report

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
October 31, 2018
Three spots in the high school are newly vacant: Room 222, Shepard’s old room; August’s secretary desk and Room 224, Hickey’s old room.

Summer brings administrative, classroom changes to FASD

Cole Skuse, Copy Editor
September 28, 2018
Teacher Aaron Fitzpatrick is handed his certificate for 2018 PSPA Journalism Teacher of the Year by PSPA Board President Paul Fantaski in the Middle School library during the Sept. 18 school board meeting.

FHS Journalism adviser wins PSPA Journalism Teacher of the Year

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
September 26, 2018
Kovalic takes a picture of himself giving a thumbs-up to the band, in order to recognize that his surgery went well.

Band director missing time due to medical complications

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
September 17, 2018
All over the world, animals such as mice are tested on in order to develop drugs that could be essential to helping millions of people and animals alike.

Animal testing is necessary for human development

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
April 30, 2018
Such as the beginning of PLT changing from 12:40 to 2:05, PLT in Freedom Area High School has endured many changes in order to find the best fit for students, teachers and staff.

Growth and development

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
March 22, 2018
This chart shows the amount of flu cases in Pennsylvania during flu season since 2010. This graph is updated to week three of 2018.

2018 flu season brings another round of sickness and death

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
February 28, 2018
This graph shows the average amount of ATP in each room that was detailed in the high school Bactronix report.

Papers, pencils and mold

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
February 28, 2018
This shows the graph of Bitcoin over the past year; Bitcoin is just one of the many cryptocurrencies available to potential investors.

Mining for money

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
January 31, 2018
The stars on this map represents all of the planned protests against the repealment of net neutrality.

Error 404: Net Neutrality Not Found

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
December 14, 2017
This billboard is part of Tom Steyer’s campaign to impeach President Donald Trump from office.

Impeachment isn’t sweet

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
December 14, 2017
Thousand of citizens in Beaver County took part in the 2017 election.

Check the box

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
November 30, 2017
This chart shows the path that the virus EHD takes in order for a deer to obtain the virus that will eventually lead to its death.

Oh, deer!

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
October 31, 2017
Google headquarters in Pittsburgh is one of the locations where a protest was planned to happen.

Terroristic threats plague peaceful march

Cole Skuse, Business Manager/Copy Editor
September 29, 2017
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