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Earning While You’re Learning: Navigating Businesses Between Classes

Earning While You’re Learning: Navigating Businesses Between Classes

Lia Furest and Maryellen Millenbach May 6, 2025

Many people can say they cut their hair after dealing with terrible stylists or expensive haircuts, but not everyone can say they started at such a young age.    This was the reality of Tosa...

5 Easy DIY Crafts to Unlock Your Creativity

5 Easy DIY Crafts to Unlock Your Creativity

Lia Fuerst, Reporter May 5, 2025

  Many times, we find ourselves wanting to do more with our downtime, but many do not know what to do. Many have bottled up creativity that they don’t know how to use. These 5 crafts are meant...

9th grade Tosa West students display their memorial pendants during lunch.

Keeping Their Names Alive: Memorial Pendants Help Students Grieve and Remember

Tarion Cunningham May 1, 2025

The last words Junior Kasyjen Richardson’s brother said to him was when he was getting off the bus before winter break, “Alright brother, see you after break!” He said. Unfortunately, Kas never saw...

BEHIND THE DESK: Tosa East Technical Education Teacher Craig Griffie

BEHIND THE DESK: Tosa East Technical Education Teacher Craig Griffie

Andrew Obrochta, Reporter April 23, 2025

What got you into the trades?  I took a long and winding route. When I was in college, I worked summers with this group called the Appalachian Service Project. They provide free home repair for low...

Trump and the current deportation strategy is wrong. What we really need is meaningful immigration reform.

Trump and the current deportation strategy is wrong. What we really need is meaningful immigration reform.

Ben Steinbrecher April 17, 2025

Although deportations and sending troops to the border is effective in the short term, it does not get to the root of the problem.   Trump's new deportation strategy is a complete stretch, and unfair...

"You're Part of the World": Wauwatosa West Gifted Mural From Class of 1969

“You’re Part of the World”: Wauwatosa West Gifted Mural From Class of 1969

Avianah Zarnowski, Editor April 12, 2025

“I’m not a person of a lot of words, but essentially, the idea behind it is to move your mind from the literal to the metaphoric,” Jim Koconis stated just moments after his art was hung in the Tosa...

In Review: Kung Fu Panda 4

In Review: Kung Fu Panda 4

Charles Andrew Cruz, Reporter April 8, 2025

The Astonishing and Awe-inspiring film, where lives the great and beloved Kung Fu Panda Po. back with another awesome adventure! But for how long? What will be of his title that will soon change to the...

TWTODAY APRIL 4 2025

Sam Gentil, Reporter April 4, 2025

The week show includes the following segments: In Review: Student Cell Phone Use by Cody Spriggs and Media Comm Students In The Classroom: AP Research by Cayden Fitch-Kirkpatrick, Miracle Jones-Connor,...

ON THE STREET: Tosa West NCAA Final Four Predictions

Declan Freeborn, Reporter April 4, 2025

Media Communications students Declan Freeborn, Nick Scripture and Nolan Krebs go on the street to interview students and staff about who they think will win the 2025 NCAA Final Four games on Saturday,...

Wauwatosa Schools LAUNCH: Skills and Building Trades Provides Hands On Learning Experiences

Christian Wolfe and Tory Gardner March 31, 2025

Wauwatosa East hosts and runs the LAUNCH: Skills and Building Trades available to Wauwatosa West and Brookfield students and is dedicated to helping students pursue a career in the trades. Students engage...

ON THE STREET: SPRING BREAK

Joe Bartleme and Hunter Hebert March 31, 2025

All Wauwatosa School District schools will have a one week vacation from March 24th to March 28th.  Students, teachers and staff are looking forward to spring break.  Some students are looking forward...

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