The 2022- 2023 school year came with plenty of schedule changes, such as the hybrid block schedule and 8- period days. One new change being implemented this year is the access periods on the Wednesday...
For the first time since 2020, students will be able to attend a two-day Snowball event at YMCA Camp Duncan in Ingleside, IL from Nov. 18-19. During the 2020-21 school year, all of the Snowball events...
The midterm election is going to take place on Nov. 8, where four-hundred and seventy seats will be up for grabs across the country, including multiple seats for both the House of Representatives and the...
District 99 has chosen not to renew its subscription to Paper.co Tutoring; a decision that hasn’t been very highly disputed by students of either DGS or DGN. With so few students who truly used the service,...
Many student actors rehearse their lines over and over again to prepare for a show. However, that won’t be the case this year since the fall play will be “Small Mouth Sounds,” a primarily silent...
On Jan. 13, 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity Today (SAFE-T) Act. The law includes extensive changes to the Illinois criminal justice system....
School District 66 is facing a series of budget cuts in the 2022-2023 school year. These cuts were made after a referendum was voted against in the community. The cuts include fewer buses, shorter school...
At the Oct. 17 board meeting, Superintendent Hank Thiele presented the 2022 Exhibition of Educational Environments that District 99 received for the North and South high school Master Facility plan projects...
Mustang Way lessons have returned once again for the 2022-2023 school year. With the newly established block schedule comes a new source of time for Mustang Way instruction, this time during students’...
As the Nov. 8 Representative election starts to loom around the corner, having been declared a state holiday in 2020, many new voters at DGS seek to make their voices heard amid a growing number of campaign...
Chromebook issues are a common occurrence for a variety of reasons, including network connectivity, broken keys, physical damage and more. The members of the Tech Center specialize in Chromebook repair...
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opened Oct. 1 for current seniors. This is a federal government form that determines if students qualify for federal and need based aid. This includes...