College and Career Resource Center launches at NCHS
Evie Snoeyink, Editor-in-chief
Unit 5’s new College and Career Resource Center (CCRC) at both high schools seeks to provide students with the resources and support they need to create a plan for life after high school graduation. The CCRC’s aim is to make sure that all students, once they leave high school...
New faces of Normal: Meet the new staff
James Broach, Sports Editor
Senator Dick Durbin “dreams” of change
Ellie Sauder, Social Media Editor
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin visited NCHS on May 1 to answer student’s hard-pressing questions on cultural issues. Durbin was quick to recognize the polarization occurring in the government and the United States as a whole, speaking of a “cultural divide which we are trying to...
Farmers market open for season
Melissa Schill, Editor in Chief
Downtown Bloomington’s farmers market is officially open for the summer. Saturday, May 5 marked the beginning of the outdoor season. The farmers market, located on Jefferson, Main, and Center Streets, offers an array of locally sourced goods such as produce, plants, and...
Preview: Orchestra performs spring concert May 15
Aidan Smiser, Staff Reporter
An orchestra concert will be held on Tuesday, May 15 at the NCHS auditorium. The event will feature NCHS’s orchestras and will be directed by NCHS' Melissa Siebenthal and Bradley University Student Teacher Lindsay Kozlowski. The concert will begin at 7 pm and requires no admission...
Katie Fata, Staff Reporter
NCHS’s monthly Lunch and Learn, an event held in the IMC during lunch hours that educates students on various topics that they may not get to learn about in the classroom, hosted YWCA Stepping Stones this Thursday, April 26. YWCA Stepping Stones is a sexual assault program...
Help the Inkspot “cover” our expenses attending the National Journalism Convention but purchasing one of these NCHS logo blankets for $30.
Will Dowell, Multimedia Editor
James Broach, Sports Editor
The Chicago Bears and the Oakland Raiders agreed to a blockbuster trade that would send all-pro LB/DE Khalil Mack to Chicago on Saturday morning. The deal...
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Will Dowell, Multimedia Editor
Aaron Knoll, Staff Reporter
Evie Snoeyink, Associate Editor
Is the funding system for education broke in broken? Are politicians putting money where it is truly needed?
Sumayyah Muhammad, Staff Reporter
Aidan Smiser, Staff Reporter
At the beginning of April, chemical attacks were reported in the Syrian town of Douma. The event in question led to the creation of a faction of western...
