Chess Club Instructor Moves the Loy Norrix Students to Play Chess
Logan Neeley, NLP
May 6, 2019
Loy Norrix is taking steps to capture the king.College Readiness instructor Jim Bellware first started playing chess after he learned the game from his father. He continued to play chess in college with his roommates and coached a chess club in Battle Creek for 10 years. Now, Bellware hosts the club here at...
Gamers, Assemble!: Loy Norrix eSports Club’s First Year is Underway
Justin Timmerman
October 5, 2018
If you’re looking for a place where countless all-nighters playing video games with your friends while eating potato chips and drinking soda will come in handy, the Loy Norrix eSports club has a spot for you! The eSports club is where gamers can get together and play video games either compe...
Nova VR Brings Easy Access to The Games of The Future
Zachary Liddle
November 3, 2017
When you hear arcade, you probably imagine cabinet games like Galaga or Mortal Kombat, lines with no end, and waiting to pay tons of quarters for minutes of fun depending on how you play. Nova has come to change that. Nova VR, at 806 S. Westnedge Ave. in Kalamazoo, is a virtual reality business al...
Academic Pep Assembly is Fun Under the Sun
Zach Skinner
June 5, 2017
Loy Norrix students had a blast on May 18 during fourth and fifth hour. Students had been waiting for months for an opportunity that only comes twice a year, the Academic Pep Assembly, a day where students get to leave class early to kick back and relax. It is a reward for all their hard work in thei...
Sophomores Help to Rebuild Varsity Basketball Teams
Dennasia Dixon
April 21, 2017
The feeling of Friday night basketball games have become all too familiar to sophomores Nmeso Nnebedum, Steffon Dunigan, DeAndre Worthy, Abigail Roberts and Ebube Okpechukwu. Hard work, dedication and leadership are all qualities that led these second year high school students to become a part of ...
Loy Norrix Freshman Will Change the Way You Look At Computers
March 7, 2017
By Alex Vonhof “I took it apart and I ended up breaking a little tiny piece inside of it that made the fan work," said freshman Jason Howard, talking about struggling with a computer. "After that I tried fixing it, but I ended up breaking it more so I basically just smashed it into pieces and th...
The Chicago Cubs Shock the World after 108 Years.
Abby Farrer
December 2, 2016
Thousands of eyes are glued to the pitcher dressed in a blue jersey and grey pants. He is one pitch away from a life changing play. Pitcher, Mike Montgomery of the Cubs has a count of no balls and one strike, two outs on the scoreboard one more pitch, a solid pitch down the middle, ground ball to lef...
Duckett Brothers Donate Jerseys for Good Cause
Maxwell Link
October 4, 2016
On the night of September 9th, 2016, two rival teams, Loy Norrix High School and Kalamazoo Central High School, fought for the title of the city. Lights were shining on the field, and out came both teams, Kalamazoo Central in pink and Loy Norrix in blue. Blue and pink are the colors representative f...
Technology Usage Is A Danger To All
samseagull
March 27, 2015
Out of the 308,745,538 Americans you and I live amongst, 90 percent of them, or 277,870,984 Americans own a cell phone. Many of these users are teenagers, millennials, or others your grandparents call “young people”. The aforementioned groups of people have an addiction to their technology, you ca...
