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TONKA NEWS

The student news site of Winnetonka High School

TONKA NEWS

The student news site of Winnetonka High School

TONKA NEWS

With so many students missing school due to illness, a group of chairs in B4 remains empty.

Flu epidemic affects students, staff

Kileigh Sailor, Staff writer January 25, 2018

Dozens of staff and students are missing school due to the recent influenza outbreak that experts from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) say is the worst flu outbreak in the continental United States...

Swept up

Swept up

Elizabeth Payton, Staff Writer January 23, 2018

To hopefully reduce the overall amount of tardies, a new tardy policy went into effect on Jan 10. Instead of teachers just marking a student as tardy on PowerSchool, the policy dictates that they...

J2 Multimedia Editor-in-Chief Katie Bullock & Print Editor Jessica Glaszczak discuss Griffin Rites page edits during class on Jan. 18.

Winnetonka publications earn First-Class national rating

Tonka Online Staff January 22, 2018

Both Winnetonka High School print publications, Griffin Rites newsmagazine and Odyssey yearbook, received a first-class rating from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) based on publications...

 Senior Payton Stephenson works on a part for a heating and cooling system on Dec. 7 at the Northland Career Center in the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refigeration class.

Creating a career

Hani Yousif, Sports editor January 11, 2018

For most students, going to school means sitting in a classroom. It means four walls and a few rows of desks. But for junior Kaye Vandendaele, a hospital hallway is just as comfortable a classroom as the...

Senior Steven Findley wears pajama pants on Jan. 8 spirit day.

An out of this world week

Katie Bullock, Editor-in-chief January 8, 2018

The varsity boys’ basketball team will take on the Raytown South Cardinal’s at 7 p.m. in the main gym on Jan. 12 for the annual Pack-The-House game, which serves to fill the student section stands...

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