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Marissa Barch is a senior at Utica and is a first-year staff for the newspaper. She is Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook at Utica after 3 years on staff. Marissa is very outgoing and loves hearing random funny stories from anyone because she laughs at everything. She has been known to be a pretty talkative person, but that just makes even more of an awesome person. She does varsity cheerleading for Utica and likes to be on staff because it makes her feel more a part of her school.

As the ticket ladies open the gates for the game, the students of Utica High school pour through and race to get the front row spots of the student section. After a long year of unexpected twists and turns, protocols changed to let the stands go back to full capacity again.

“I did not expect everything to be normal this year,” senior Ayden Salmo said. “I thought everyone would have to social distance in the stands and wear masks, but we don’t, which makes it a much more enjoyable experience for

This is no ordinary classroom. The unmistakable scent of sawdust floods into the nose, country music fills the air, and students work individually or in small groups, completing various projects. The woodworking rooms at Henry Ford II and Eisenhower allow students to express their creativity while learning valuable skills.

“I get to work on a lot of different stuff,” HFII student Andrew Kovach said. “There’s a ton of diversity in projects.”

Many of these unique creations, centering around padd

UTICA — The 2022 Utica High School Warrior yearbook has earned a Spartan Award from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association.

The award recognizes the yearbook as one of the best in the state. The yearbook was judged on criteria including a unifying concept and the quality of its coverage, writing, design and photography. The yearbook earned 945 points out of a possible 1,000.

Teacher Stacy Smale, the Utica High School yearbook adviser, said that everything from the graphic design work t