The official student media of Blue Valley Northwest High School

BVNWnews

The official student media of Blue Valley Northwest High School

BVNWnews

The official student media of Blue Valley Northwest High School

BVNWnews

Blue Valley School District moves out of the orange zone, allowing for high school students to return to school in a hybrid model on Oct. 5.

Hybrid schedule announced for high schools

Megan Yates, News Editor September 21, 2020

As Blue Valley schools move out of the orange zone, Superintendent Tonya Merrigan announced that beginning Oct. 5, high school students will go into the hybrid model. “Throughout this pandemic, we have...

 The picture above is of the coronavirus microbe.

BV district COVID dashboard

September 21, 2020

The Blue Valley School district created a district-wide COVID-19 dashboard, where confirmed positive COVID-19 cases are updated weekly. The district-wide total is provided, along with cases separated by...

Choir director Beth Richey-Sullivan conducts the choir students during the National Anthem before the Husky Night parade in August of 2019.

Choir teacher announces long-term leave of absence

Megan Yates, News Editor September 18, 2020

In her email sent out to choir students and their parents, choir director Beth Richey-Sullivan said her decision to leave Northwest was not an easy one. Richey said it comes after acknowledging that she...

Sophomore Sam McIntosh (3) and senior Ethan Hunt (11) chase the ball in the boys varsity soccer game, Sept. 17.

Varsity boys get their first win of the season, 3-1 over St. Thomas Aquinas

Megan Yates, News Editor September 18, 2020

With his first win over STA as head coach, Brian Pollack said he knew going up against the Saints was going to be hard, so getting the win, Pollack said, felt really good.  “It feels pretty darn...

Sophomore running back Grant Stubblefield (3) runs the ball into the endzone to extend the Huskies lead to 24-10.

Defense leads way, Huskies defeat Tigers 24-17

Jonny Isaacson, Sports Editor September 18, 2020

Coming into the game, the Huskies were looking to start the season hot and after a quarter of play the Huskies had allowed zero total points and were tied, 0-0. Head coach Clint Rider gave credit to...

Senior Aidan Knauth runs to stop a breakaway, Sept. 15.

Northwest is defeated by Rockhurst, 0-1, in the first game of the season

Jack Nitz, Sports Editor September 16, 2020

Before the game, head coach Brian Pollack said he challenged his players to win the first 10 minutes of the game. With it being the team’s first game of the season, he said he realized the team needed...

Beginning Sept. 9, high school students will attend school online. Athletics and activities will be suspended Aug. 22 for two weeks.

After rescinding the Johnson County gating criteria for reopening school, the Blue Valley District announces changes for the start of the 2020-21 school year

Tessa Regan and Megan Yates August 21, 2020

Superintendent Tonya Merrigan announced today the first four weeks of school for high school and middle school will be online only following the Kansas Board of Education’s gating criteria. All elementary...

BVNW to move to all block schedule

BVNW to move to all block schedule

Jack Bensing and Megan Yates August 3, 2020

Since the Blue Valley School District decided to follow Governor Laura Kelly’s plan to start school on Sept. 9, changes have been made to the school year schedule, including shortening winter and spring...

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