The Voice

The Clash of the Craigs

By Tom Heagney
March 2, 2012

It was an unusually warm October afternoon at Hilldale golf club in Hoffman Estates, and junior Ryan Craig had just made the biggest shot of his golf career.

Teacher Margie Brand travels around world but stays close to home

By Tyler Davis
March 1, 2012

English teacher Margie Brand has traveled all around the world but always stays close to her large family.

Giving up the universe

By Kayla Garcia
February 26, 2012

For most of the science teachers at Huntley High School, just teaching science is all they have known, but for physics teacher Amanda Henk, it has been so much more.

While Kate Duchene is driving to her next job, she feels nervous and stressed for what is to come. She steps out of the car and gathers her equipment. Sighing deeply, she rings the doorbell and waits while a flood of memories comes back to her. Duchene did not think that she would become a photographer, but rather an actress on stage.

The desire to give

By Ashley Knipp
February 23, 2012

Walking into the Grafton Township food pantry was stepping out of the fishbowl of high school, and reaching out to the real world.

The boy behind the team

By Tom Heagney
February 19, 2012

On a Tuesday night, Valentine's Day, the sophomore Huntley boys basketball team finds itself down by three points, with one second remaining in overtime....

Living through language

By Holly Baldacci
February 3, 2012

Sophomore Esha Munshi wakes from a muddled dream. Words and memories swirl around her head, fragments just out of her reach. Munshi’s dream, however, differs from the average American teenager’s. She dreams in a mixture of four different languages.

The girl who always sings

By Yazmin Dominguez
January 27, 2012

A "trance" that is what she calls it. A combination of dancing, singing, and daydreaming. She experiences it everyday, it is how she...