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Teachers’ pets: no, not the students

Julia Keyes, Staff Writer June 13, 2025

Zarah Matsuda has three dogs! A 15-year-old Chihuahua-mix named Stella, an 11-year-old Australian Shepherd named Chef, and a 4-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog and White Lab mix. “Stella is in charge,...

Introducing myself one last time

Introducing myself one last time

Taylor Crumpacker, Staff Writer June 13, 2025

Mrs. Gillingham:  Lora Gillingham started working as a librarian here at Liberty in 2022. She decided to work at Liberty because she “really wanted to work in a school that was in my community.” “One...

Patriots and Pistons

Gracie Aryal, Spotlight Editor May 2, 2025

Lethargically trailing through the school parking lot every morning comes car after car of sleepy high school students, some barely coherent enough to weave into a white-edged space.  This coming Saturday,...

Sharing a VOICE with elementary students

Alexa Lim, Editorial Board Member May 2, 2025

Not everyone has to be a teacher to be able to help even just one student, which is what around 30 students at Liberty do as mentors in the VOICE program.  VOICE stands for Volunteers of Issaquah Changing...

Catching up with the caretaker

Jocelyn Hood, Editorial Board Member April 3, 2025

Everything that lies outside the walls of Liberty is conquered by one man with drive, a love for what he does, and a late bedtime during football season; that man’s name: Donovan Osborn. Osborn is...

Hayden in the hockey rink

Kelsey Burnet, Photography Editor April 3, 2025

For many, ice rinks are daunting places that test balance, coordination, and how much embarrassment you can stand after falling for the seventh time. But for some, rinks are not their bane: rinks are...

Atmospheric beats by Abhay

Alexa Lim, Editorial Board Member April 3, 2025

If you give senior Abhay Bhat a computer, he can quickly write codes for complex algorithms. But when you give Bhat a computer, he can also produce a beat.  Just last August, Bhat transitioned from...

Kruzich’s formula for fun: Math is Cool

Bona Jumnoodoo, Senior Writer April 3, 2025

All across western Washington, the Math is Cool (MIC) competitions are only held at one school: Liberty. Hosted by Liberty’s Math Club, MIC competitions are organized throughout the year for students...

Freshman feature: Isabelle Taylor

Gracie Aryal, Spotlight Editor April 3, 2025

When most people hear “contact sport,” they think about sports like football or boxing. Something involving people slamming into each other on a playing field or ring, with hits from both sides of...

Winning with Washington

Gracie Aryal, Spotlight Editor April 3, 2025

Nature is something that inspires everyone–perhaps more so to people living in the Pacific Northwest, an area so rich in flora and fauna. For junior Lillian Pak, this inspiration stretched and led her...

The doc is in: Shruthi Venat’s medical internship

Jonas Padilha, Editorial Board Member March 3, 2025

Junior Health Scholar Shruthi Venkat is serving one of the hospital patients lunch when, suddenly, she sees a stampede of doctors racing towards one of the rooms. Venkat doesn’t know what happened, but...

Nine-hole hallway hectics

Jonas Padilha, Editorial Board Member March 3, 2025

The crowd watches with eager anticipation as English teacher Henry Level raises his club high above his head and strikes the ball, sending it across the hallway between him and fellow English teacher John...

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