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  • June 4The Black Team of seniors and freshmen wins the 2025 Powderpuff Football Game, with a final score of 21-0!
  • May 16Your 2025 PNMA Winners are Ariga Safaryans and Hasmik Tumasyan! This is the fourth tie in the 60-year history of the award, and the first one since 1993!
  • April 30Senior Hasmik Tumasyan wins 2025 Lancaster Prize. Fellow senior Kate Enriquez is the other finalist for the award.
  • March 82025 Oratorical Results: Seniors win Discipline and Spirit, Juniors win VAPA, Sophomores win Speech!
  • February 20Junior Clark transfer Anthony Alfaro elected ASB President for the 2025-26 school year.
  • August 23Nitro football team wins first game of the season against Don Bosco Tech, 38-0!
  • May 31The Black Team defeats the Pink Team, 41-7, in the 2024 Powderpuff Football Game!
  • May 24Senior Lilit Arakelyan wins the 2024 Pat Navalonic Memorial Award! Lilit will be attending UCLA in the fall!
  • May 1Senior Alexis Cabral wins the 2024 Lancaster Prize, for her article "A Day Without a Phone"!
  • November 18Girls varsity volleyball team defeats Marin Academy, 3-1, to win CIF Division IV State Championship!
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Explosion

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Explosion

Ramon Ramirez is finally walking away from the Nitro court.
Roman Ramirez Leads the Charge
Karla Ruiz, Staff Writer • April 30, 2025
Emerson Whiting (second from right) and her volleyball teammates
Emerson Whiting’s Final Set
Emma Torosyan, Reviews Editor • March 3, 2025
Kristy Tarbinian is Swinging in Style!
Kristy Tarbinian is Swinging in Style!
Artur Torabyan, Staff Writer • February 28, 2025
Manuel Lemus: From Player to Coach
Manuel Lemus: From Player to Coach
Lily Bagdyan, Staff Writer • December 11, 2024
Natalie Minkler on the Mound!
Natalie Minkler on the Mound!
Destiny Velina, Staff Writer • October 14, 2024
Adri Fenyes (left) poses with fellow senior, Talia Arotionians, who attends Clark Magnet High School
Adri Fenyes is Inspiring School and Team Spirit
Karla Ruiz, Staff Writer • September 30, 2024
Alex Shirvanian Is on the Defensive
Alex Shirvanian Is on the Defensive
Lily Bagdyan, Staff Writer • September 27, 2024
Danielle Ramos Is Flying that Flag
Danielle Ramos Is Flying that Flag
Aniella Pieprzyca-Mazadiego, Editor-in-Chief • September 25, 2024
Inside the City
Inside the City
Noah Adigozyan, Staff Writer • June 6, 2025

Mayor Ara Najarian, now serving his fifth term as the mayor of Glendale, brings decades of experience, a commitment to civic engagement and a sharp focus on transparent governance. In an in-depth interview with our Glendale High School Nitro Press, Mayor Najarian opened up about his personal background, the challenges facing Glendale, global politics (including the Trump Administration, the conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine), as well as his vision for the city’s future. From local policies to...

Meet Your 2025 Prom Court!
Meet Your 2025 Prom Court!
May 7, 2025

Here are the members of the Prom Court for the Class of 2025! Don’t miss the Prom on Saturday, June 7th, at 6pm at the LA River Center...

Our 2025 Lancaster Finalists and Semi-Finalists: Emily Galleguillos, Dayanara Lopez, Aniella Pieprzyca-Mazadiego, Hasmik Tumasyan, Kate Enriquez and Nicole Duarte
2025 Lancaster Prize Winner Announced!
Jon Livingston, Advisor • May 1, 2025

The Lancaster Prize was founded in 2021 to recognize excellence in the field of school journalism for seniors at Glendale High School. It was...

Your PNMA Finalists: Ariga Safaryans, Erynn Padillo, Hasmik Yumasyan, Emerson Whiting and Layla Whitley
Introducing Your 2025 PNMA Finalists!
April 16, 2025

The Pat Navolanic Memorial Award is the most prestigious honor that can be bestowed upon a Glendale High School senior. Applicants must have...

GHS Winter Guard Places 4th at Championships!
GHS Winter Guard Places 4th at Championships!
Breanna Lee, Staff Writer • April 15, 2025

Your 2025 Glendale High School winter guard team closed out their season in championship competition on Saturday, April 12. They competed...

Mikayla Eclavea Reflects on Her Reign
Mikayla Eclavea Reflects on Her Reign
Rebecca Perez, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

Mikayla Eclavea is a senior at Glendale High School and was the drum major of the GHS marching band this school year. She led the GHS marching band through their 2024 field show “The Crown”. She has also played trumpet in several other GHS ensembles over the years, including the jazz band and concert band. Outside of school, Mikayla is involved in the Glendale Youth Symphony. She is also a member of the Filipino Club, Speech and Debate Club, Choir Club and Physics Club. In her free time, she...

Seda Manukyan Sees Chess as a Battle of the Mind
Seda Manukyan Sees Chess as a Battle of the Mind
Milena Asatryan, Staff Writer • May 21, 2025

Seda Manukyan, the president of our school’s Chess Club, is not only passionate about strategic thinking, but she also finds joy in creative...

Mr. Barlaan is a New Face in the English Department
Mr. Barlaan is a New Face in the English Department
Soul Matos-Cordoba, Staff Writer • May 20, 2025

Mr. Russell Jason Barlaan is one of the new English teachers here at Glendale High School. His classroom is in the 2000 Building, and he has...

Jade Marquez (center) with teammates Rachel Francis and Brooke Aldrete
Jade Marquez Is Swinging for the Fences
Karla Ruiz, Staff Writer • May 16, 2025

Jade Marquez, a senior at Glendale High School, is the youngest of five siblings in a Mexican family. She loves being outdoors and has many hobbies,...

Lilit Manandyan Celebrates the Wonders of Life
Lilit Manandyan Celebrates the Wonders of Life
Fatima Alanis, Staff Writer • May 14, 2025

Lilit Manandyan is a 17-year-old junior at Glendale High School, and she is the founder and president of the new Biology Club on our campus....

Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, John Turturro and Britt Lower in Severance.
Severance
Valentina Sandoval, Staff Writer • June 5, 2025

I won’t be spoiling anything in this article because of the fact that Severance is a show you really just have to watch to fully understand. Severance is a series that is streaming exclusively on Apple TV+. It was created by Dan Erikson and primarily directed by Ben Stiller. It stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Tramell Tillman and Patricia Arquette. The show received fourteen nominations during the 74th annual Emmy Awards, and it won for the Main Title Theme and...

The Star Chapter: Sanctuary, Tomorrow by Together
The Star Chapter: Sanctuary, Tomorrow by Together
Enrica Celesthea Briones, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

The album The Star Chapter: Sanctuary was released on November 4, 2024, by the group Tomorrow by Together, or TXT. If you aren’t familiar with this group, let me introduce them to you! TXT is a five-member...

So Close To What, Tate McRae
So Close To What, Tate McRae
Dayanara Lopez, Staff Writer • May 30, 2025

Tate McRae is a Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer, known for her pop-centric hooks and choreography. She first began her dance career at age six, when she competed on the series So You Think You Can...

The Life List
The Life List
Angelina Badalyan, Staff Writer • May 28, 2025

One list, one year, one life changed forever.  The 2025 movie The Life List was directed by Adam Brooks and written by Lori Nelson Spielman. It features a great cast, including Sofia Carson, Kyle Allen...

The Sopranos
The Sopranos
Karla Ruiz, Staff Writer • May 26, 2025

The Sopranos is known as one of the most influential and groundbreaking series of all time, and it shows the complexity of mob life. Created by David Chase, it premiered in 1999 and introduced viewers...

Finland is the Happiest Country!
Finland is the Happiest Country!
Kamilla Ponce, Staff Writer • June 6, 2025

Finland has held the number-one spot as the happiest country on earth for over eight years. But what do they do differently there that makes their residents so satisfied?  According to CNN, the nature and welfare system in Finland are the most important factors, but also the people of this country are contributing to this ranking. The neighboring Nordic countries, such as Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden, continue to hold the top-four positions in that same order. This past year, the United Kingdom...

The Top Five Studio Ghibli Movies
The Top Five Studio Ghibli Movies
Emma Torosyan, Review Editor • June 4, 2025

Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli have given us something rare: films that don't just tell stories, but create entire worlds that feel like memories...

Jake Gyllenhaal loves  to give high fives.
The Amazing Filmography of Jake Gyllenhaal
Milena Orudzhian, Staff Writer • June 2, 2025

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles on December 19, 1980. His parents were both involved in the film industry; his mother, Naomi...

“The Third World”
“The Third World”
Noah Adigozyan, Staff Writer • May 29, 2025

Chances are if you live in the West, you hear this term all the time: “The Third World.” It’s immediately met with the vision of a yellow-color-scheme...

A Dandy Day at the Gala
A Dandy Day at the Gala
Aniella Pieprzyca and Dayanara Lopez May 27, 2025

The Met Gala is an annual fundraising event hosted by Vogue Magazine for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. This event is known...

Mikayla Eclavea Reflects on Her Reign
Mikayla Eclavea Reflects on Her Reign
Rebecca Perez, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

Mikayla Eclavea is a senior at Glendale High School and was the drum major of the GHS marching band this school year. She led the GHS marching band through their 2024 field show “The Crown”. She has also played trumpet in several other GHS ensembles over the years, including the jazz band and concert band. Outside of school, Mikayla is involved in the Glendale Youth Symphony. She is also a member of the Filipino Club, Speech and Debate Club, Choir Club and Physics Club. In her free time, she...

Seda Manukyan Sees Chess as a Battle of the Mind
Seda Manukyan Sees Chess as a Battle of the Mind
Milena Asatryan, Staff Writer • May 21, 2025

Seda Manukyan, the president of our school’s Chess Club, is not only passionate about strategic thinking, but she also finds joy in creative...

Lilit Manandyan Celebrates the Wonders of Life
Lilit Manandyan Celebrates the Wonders of Life
Fatima Alanis, Staff Writer • May 14, 2025

Lilit Manandyan is a 17-year-old junior at Glendale High School, and she is the founder and president of the new Biology Club on our campus....

Hiroki Roberts Is Hitting All the Right Notes
Hiroki Roberts Is Hitting All the Right Notes
Kamilla Ponce, Staff Writer • May 6, 2025

Hiroki Roberts is a senior at Glendale High School and currently serves as president of the GHS Tri-M Music Honor Society. He has been playing...

Erynn Padillo (left) at Round Up, with fellow members Mia Bella Gonzalez and Ani Sargsyan
Erynn Padillo Is a True Scholar
Soul Matos-Cordoba, Staff Writer • May 2, 2025

Erynn Padillo is a very busy senior at Glendale High School. She plays the piano, loves fashion, is captain of the girls varsity golf team, works...