The 93rd annual Academy Awards, held Sunday, April 25, saw changes in both the event and its nominations and awards. COVID’s effect has been seen continually throughout this past year, sparing not even the most notable of award ceremonies. One of the most noticeable differences in this year’s show was the missing audience. The Oscar’s home audienced totaled somewhere around
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On April 28, our Governor, Roy Cooper and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen provided a much needed update on the state’s current COVID case numbers, how the curve is looking, and vaccination progress. Thankfully, that was all positive as our metrics remain stable right now, which hasn’t been true in a long time.
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Maybe it’s the sunshine or the temperature of the air, but for some reason it is really beginning to feel like the end of the school year. For the class of 2021, this year’s end will mark the bittersweet end of high school. This graduating class has lost a lot due to the pandemic, but luckily Apex has decided to
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We all know Elon Musk, right? You may know him as the inventor of PayPal, SpaceX, or Tesla Motors. In whatever way you know of him, are you aware that he and his team have successfully achieved a space docking onto the International Space Station? If you didn’t know, then let me just say, you are not the only one.
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Every year, Apex High School is allotted five slots for exchange students to enroll at our school. Last year, many students had to go home early due to the pandemic. I interviewed three students who attended Apex High School last year, catching up with them on how their lives have changed since going back to their home country during a
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In recent years, the issue of saving the environment from things like pollution and global warming has become increasingly talked about, especially within younger demographics. People want to save the planet for future generations to come, to keep the earth clean and habitable, and there are many ways to do it at home and in local communities without much extra
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On April 26th, according to NASA there was the first Pink Supermoon of 2021. The Pink Moon was at its brightest around 11:32 pm and stayed at that peak until around midnight. There was also a pink moon in 2020, around April 7th. This year’s Pink Supermoon was one of the two rumored supermoons that are supposed to happen this
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After a long quarantine, shut-down schools, and no school sports, Apex High School welcomed back its track team on April 12th. Prior to the official start date, Apex welcomed its new head coach, Addison Johnson! This will be his first year coaching at Apex but his 10th year overall. His main goals are to help improve the team as a
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After nearly three years, the ballroom lights heat up one more time for the final season of Pose. The FX drama created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuck, and Steven Canals tells the story of the New York Ballroom Scene prevalent throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. From the start, Pose made headlines as the cast featured the largest number of reoccuring
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As more and more individuals become vaccinated, many are stuck wondering when life will finally go back to normal. Since we are allegedly immune to the virus after being fully vaccinated, why should we have to wear the masks? Some truly believe that the vaccine should be the end of the road, and we can ceremoniously toss our face masks
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