The School Newspaper of Cherry Hill High School East

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The School Newspaper of Cherry Hill High School East

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The School Newspaper of Cherry Hill High School East

Eastside

CHE Habitat for Humanity poses for a picture in front of a home they worked on during their Baltimore trip.

CHE Habitat for Humanity attends it’s 2022 Baltimore trip

Ava Crawley, Online Features Editor January 4, 2023

CHE Habitat for Humanity (Habitat) attended its first Baltimore trip since 2019. On November 10th, Habitat and 15 members including club advisor Mr. Console drove from East to Baltimore, Maryland with...

Check out Eastside’s 26th fall dodgeball tournament

Karina Gupta and Natalie Finkelstein January 3, 2023

This year, Eastside's twice-a-year dodgeball tournament tradition took place for the first time since the fall of 2019. Held on Thursday, December 17th, 2022, at 7:15 pm in East's Dibart Gym, 15 teams...

Wangs senior student portrait from the 2011 yearbook (left) and a more recent photo of Wang, courtesy of Euronews (right).

We found Gary Wang. Here’s what we know.

Asher Boiskin, Alena Zhang, and Brielle Lampf January 3, 2023

Gary Wang, formally known as Zixiao Wang, has recently faced widespread scrutiny for his involvement in Bankman Fried’s multi-billion dollar scandal with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. After combing...

FOP members create snowmen with elementary school students for the holidays.

FOP spends time with elementary school students

Izzy Sobel, Eastside News Editor December 24, 2022

The Fraternal Office of Police (FOP) Club were successful in their first holiday season of going to the schools and decorating for the children, which occurred on December 20th and 21st. FOP strives to...

Dodgeball teams wore matching outfits and made creative names.

Eastside’s dodgeball tournament returns successfully

Jillian Koenig, Eastside News Editor December 20, 2022

For the first time since 2019, Eastside’s ever-famous dodgeball event returned. The 26th dodgeball tournament took place on December 15, 2022 in the DiBart Gym. Fifteen teams made up of six to seven...

The CHE Mime Company at the Blackwood Pumpkin Festival held in October

Get to know CHE Mime Company

Julia Sitnick, Eastside Sports Editor December 19, 2022

If you happen to wander into the East Little Theatre after school on a Wednesday afternoon and find a group of students creating skits and having a great time without uttering a single word, then you have...

The Blood Drive chairpeople worked hard to create a successful blood drive.

East holds successful biannual blood drive

Izzy Sobel, Eastside News Editor December 14, 2022

On November 15th and 16th, The Great Blood Drive Charlie Brown occurred in the East Library Annex. Students at Cherry Hill East were able to donate blood, but the blood drive was also open to people in...

Scan here to read the Board of Educations update on Health and PE in the district.

District implements revised mental health curriculum

Jillian Koenig, Eastside News Editor December 6, 2022

Beginning during the 2022-2023 year, health classes will introduce a revised mental health curriculum. The new curriculum will be taught in grades kindergarten through 12th grade across the district.  The...

Discussions regarding the lunch-and-learn method continue with the safety of students being a major topic.

Fire alarm interrupts the December SAT

Ella Hampton, Eastside News Editor December 5, 2022

At around 12:05 pm on Saturday, December 5th, 2022 the fire alarm went off during the December SAT at Cherry Hill High School East – allowing test takers access to their phones. The fire alarm, set...

The Junior Class performs their Dance Moms inspired dance.

Spirit Week 2022 recap

Katherine Li, Eastside Art Director November 29, 2022

This year’s Spirit Week has come to an end. Planned months in advance, the week was met with much success and high participation from each class.  The themes for this year’s Spirit Week revolved...

The proposed dress code permits a variety of clothing that are excluded in the current policy.

A new dress and grooming policy for Cherry Hill public schools is proposed

Ella Hampton, Eastside News Editor November 29, 2022

A new dress and grooming policy for Cherry Hill public schools has been proposed by the Board of Education in response to student voice. In creating the proposal, the board aimed to remove any gender-targeted...

Christopher Shin leads Easts student body through a successful year

Christopher Shin leads East’s student body through a successful year

Alexis Rovner, Eastside staff November 29, 2022

Christopher (Chris) Shin (‘23) is excited to be serving as the school-wide president for the 2022-2023 school year. By accepting this position, Shin has set multiple goals which he hopes to achieve by...

The Seniors Bachelor Dance won them first place in the Spirit Week Dance.

Spirit Week Dance 2022 recap

Alexis Rovner, Eastside Staff November 28, 2022

On Tuesday, November 22nd, each grade performed in the Spirit Week Dance Competition in East’s DiBart Gym. Each class’ Student Government Association (SGA) representatives were given the opportunity...

Eastside investigates accessibility within both our school and local community.

Exploring Accessibility

Gia Gupta, Sophia Liu, and Ellie Noh November 28, 2022

Some of them are stared at. Some of them are pitied. Some of them are laughed at. All of them deserve more. For people with disabilities, accessibility is the focused effort put forth towards their...

Ricky Hess (23) plays the keyboard at the Beardfest music festival last June

Hess preforms for crowd of thousands

Lauren Winslow, Eastside Online Editor-in-Chief November 28, 2022

Most 12-year-olds would be scared to death playing in front of 16,000 people at the Penn State Arena. But, for Ricky Hess (‘23), this was just another night where he got the opportunity to make music...

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