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Riverhawk Remix Pep Rally Highlights

Arianna Holcomb, Video Editor October 3, 2025

When school spirit meets the beat, you get a pep rally like no other. The MCHS student body filled the gym today to celebrate a Riverhawk Remix Homecoming and watch the coronation of King Michael Johnson...

Mrs. Dodge's Unique Path Benefits Teaching Career

Mrs. Dodge’s Unique Path Benefits Teaching Career

Elise Dykstra, Editor in Chief September 26, 2025

Jessica Dodge joined the MCHS staff at the beginning of the 2025 school year to teach various classes in the English department. Though now working as a teacher, Dodge spent several years working in finance...

Mr. Fisher's Fifteen Seconds of Fame

Mr. Fisher’s Fifteen Seconds of Fame

Elise Dykstra and Kate Laura September 10, 2025

Students are sitting in first period Economics class dozing off during the daily news until their attention is grabbed by an enthusiastic, “YES!”, from teacher Brian Fisher. Looking up, they see the...

Members of the class of 2026 spend the first two weekends of school jazzing up the parking lot for their final year at MCHS.

Asphalt or Art Gallery?

Kate Laura, Writer September 8, 2025

For the first time at MCHS, senior students are decorating their parking spots. "This is, like, super cool," said Kathya Hernandez-Santamaria, "I never thought our school would do it." Painting...

Class of 2026 Ushers in Final Year with "Senior Sunrise"

Class of 2026 Ushers in Final Year with “Senior Sunrise”

Elise Dykstra, Editor in Chief August 29, 2025

MCHS seniors gathered before classes started on Tuesday morning to celebrate “Senior Sunrise,” a newly instated event orchestrated by Student Senate. Students met in the Riverhawk stadium at 5:30am...

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Heather Casey June 3, 2025

As another school year comes to an end, I want to take the time to thank public schools throughout the U.S.  Thank you to the school board, administration, teachers, para-educators, teacher associates,...

Crime in the Basement

Crime in the Basement

Tristan Wible, Writer May 30, 2025

Mason City High School Criminology students finished the school year diving into the role of forensics by investigating a fictional crime scene inside the school’s basement. “When I walked up to...

Principal Dan Long hands out ice cream and popcicles to students to kick off an ISASP Reward Day.

Success Tastes Sweet

May 23, 2025

It was sunshine and smiles at the high school today as students enjoyed a well-earned break from the classroom. As part of a reward day for their hard work and dedication, students spent the final hour...

Caleb Shannon welds a metal frame together. It's the first step in creating a metal box for Mason City firefighters to use on fire trucks.

Welding Students Construct Windows For The Mason City Fire Department Fire Tower

Tristan Wible, Writer May 23, 2025

Welding students at MCHS are putting together window frames that will be installed inside the Mason City Fire Department's fire tower. “It’s pretty cool to be able to say that you built something,”...

Ashland Ruby, Joseline Hernandez and Jordan Roehl flip through pages of the new Masonian.

2025 Yearbooks are Here

Kyra Nason May 22, 2025

The month of May is exciting for many reasons at MCHS. Summer is around the corner, seniors are preparing for graduation, and teachers are still doling out last assignments. And yet another one of the...

AP students each receive a letter from the school district detailing which exams they were taking and whether the exams would be fully digital or digital hybrid format.

MCHS Students and Teachers Share Reactions to Newly-Digitized AP Exams

Elise Dykstra, Writer May 14, 2025
In 2024, the Advanced Placement/College Board announced a surprise move to change all AP testing to digital testing. MCHS students and staff were interviewed on how they thought the change would impact student performance and on the advantages and drawbacks of the new format.
Robert Dalmacio in 2021, giving instructions to a drafting class in the Philippines. Photo courtesy of Robert Dalmacio.

Para by Day, Architect at Night

Kyra Nason, Writer May 13, 2025

During the day, 35-year-old Ronald Dalmacio works in Mason City classrooms helping K-12 students as a substitute para. At night, he takes on the role of a professor and teaches architecture to third-year...

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