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Photo Gallery: Celebrating 22 years of Westflix through photographs
Photo Gallery: Celebrating 22 years of Westflix through photographs
Bear Boxes Club hosts book drive
COURSE GUIDE: Prefect Council organized the annual academic fair to help students navigate course selections for the upcoming school year.
Prefect Council hosts academic fair to showcase course offerings
RAISING AWARNESS: The Justin Carr Foundation conducted free heart screenings at the school, raising critical awareness about sudden cardiac arrest. The event honors Justin Carr’s memory and aims to protect student-athletes through early detection and community education.
Free heart screenings in Taper honor Justin Carr and raise awareness for student-athlete health
Head of School Laura Ross poses with Santa Monica and Malibu School District Superintendent Antonio Shelton.
District Superintendent visits Directed Study class
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
A structure fire broke out internally at 4132 Vanetta Place and spread up the Sunswept hillside to a neighboring four-story building.
What happened at the Sunswept Fire?
Holiday shopping in Sportsmen’s Lodge offers an opportunity to browse stores, buy gifts, and enjoy the wintertime ambience.
Holiday Guide in Los Angeles
Coldwater Canyon Ave. is undergoing maintenance again and is set to finish by November 2025. The street's last roadwork project was in 2023 after a water breakage. Just like with the construction in 2023, the increased traffic and congestion has hindered students' and faculty's commute despite them taking alternate routes.
Roadwork on Coldwater Canyon to finish by 2025
Staff Editorial: Select What You Love
Staff Editorial: Select What You Love
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
Take initiatives to decrease obesity rates
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
Continue semester classes
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
It is time to start fighting climate change
Pick Up Your Console
Pick Up Your Console
Asking for Letters of Recommendation: Your Foolproof Template
A Valentine’s Day Gift Giving Guide
A Valentine’s Day Gift Giving Guide
The Official Club Fair Guide
Head Prefect Predictions
The Official Chronicle Curriculum Guide 3
Soul Provider
Soul Provider
Coming Around to Coming out: How LGBTQ+ Students Find Acceptance and Community
Coming Around to Coming out: How LGBTQ+ Students Find Acceptance and Community
Better Than the Movies: Alumni Couples
Better Than the Movies: Alumni Couples
Lost in Translation: Exploring Language Loss Among Generations of Immigrant Families
Lost in Translation: Exploring Language Loss Among Generations of Immigrant Families
Illustrated by Iris Chung
Wanna Bet: The Rise of Campus Gambling
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
Paddington’s adventures in Peru
Choir performs songs for competition, recital
Presentations Managing Editor William Liu ’25 performs Camille Saint-Saëns' “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.”
Symphony hosts spring concert
Summer Park ’27 performs a solo piece to “Running Up That Hill.” Other dance pieces included genres of hip-hop, soft rock, and other contemporary works. Dancers choreographed 8 dances themselves.
Students in dance class perform in spring showcase themed “Time”
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
“Alligator Bites Never Heals:” leaving a mark
Printed with Permission of Savvy Mahoney
Wolverines Only: Savvy Mahoney
Seniors Lead Championships Follow
Striker Cole Grossman '25 fights over a ball with a Jurupa Hills defender.
Photo Gallery: Boys soccer brings home first CIF-SS championship in school history
ON THE MOVE: Amir Jones ’26 dribbles past a defender during the Mission Leage Championship game Feb. 5 at home. The boys basketball team secured their seventh consecutive league title and ended their season with a 24-1 record. The team now prepares to faceoff in the first round of playoffs.
Boys basketball wins seventh straight Mission League title before advancing to CIF playoffs
Girls water polo wins league
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Middle School tests fingerprint scanning for purchasing food

Ella Jeon, Assistant News Editor
February 12, 2025

The school is in the process of implementing fingerprint identification as an optional payment method in both campuses’ cafeterias as an alternative to a school-issued ID card. The technology is currently...

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