Big changes are coming to Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS) at the start of the 2025-26 school year. For 15 years, KPS has operated on a trimester schedule. On Mar. 5, 2025, however, the KPS board of trustees...

A lot of students stay focused in class and maintain an excellent GPA. For other students, however, this is not always the case.  Loy Norrix students struggle with talking during class for many different...

Whether basketball, soccer, hockey, bowling, or any other sport, students love watching athletic competitions. However, many students don’t know what it’s like to balance their sports and academic...

“I don’t know where I’d be without baseball and football,” said freshman Brady Charles. Brady started playing sports when he was 9 years old. In elementary school, he began to play baseball...

You wake up late from your blaring alarm clock. After watching the news and browsing the snow day calculator to see if any signs indicate a snow day for tomorrow morning, you see that school has been canceled...

You walk into school from the tower, heading to your first hour. You enter the silent classroom, fall into your seat, opening your notes as your teacher dives straight into the lecture. After 70 minutes...

During a large storm in late June of 2024, a tree fell outside of the Norrix A-wing, hitting classroom A-12 and damaging the roof.  Problems like what happened to the roof are not necessarily infrequent....

Being an athlete is challenging. If you think being at school from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. is hard, imagine having to be an athlete. Student athletes stay at school until as late as 6 p.m., then do homework...

You decide to stay up late on a school night and wake up more tired than normal in the morning. Whether you miss the bus or are tired from staying up late the night before, you find yourself tardy for...

Teenagers everywhere, including Loy Norrix, have been hit by the spreading epidemic of anxiety. Combined stresses of academics and the future can lead to unhealthy lifestyle choices.  “I would say...

You walk onto the basketball court, excited to practice and play. You've been practicing with your peers with the hope of making the team, making sure you got your layup down and your jump shot on lock....

Most people want to get out of high school as soon as they can, but some find themselves back at their home high school, teaching rather than attending. Art teacher Errin Corstange fell in love with Loy...