2023 January Letter from the Editors (Sinchan)

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Sinchan Mishra

Co-Editor-in-Chief

Dear Eagles,

Happy New Year! I hope your 2023 has been off to as wonderful a start as we’ve enjoyed at the Eagle Era. As I enter the new year as editor-in-chief, I can feel myself hitting my stride with editing this newspaper. After putting together five issues, I feel more confident about what works and what doesn’t, which aspects of the process we should preserve from years past and which we should let go of. But beyond that, I feel a deeper appreciation for the Era than I already did. Each issue is a microcosm of our school and its vibrant, ever-changing community. When I go back and read previous issues, it’s bittersweet—to take a figurative step back into the past, even just for a moment, is a feeling like no other. Maybe it’s just the nostalgic senior in me talking, but as much as I view our paper as an important tool for reporting on current events both at home and far away, it’s also a scrapbook of collective memories.

But I digress. It’s the new year—enough about the past!

It’s been a longer cycle this time around than we’ve become used to at the Era over the past couple of cycles, which has been a welcome change. The newspaper that you’re holding in your hands right now is a whopping sixteen pages long, packed with stories that cover almost anything you could think of—from the recent bout of school fights (always such wholesome, heartwarming events!) to a piece on our school’s very own Wellness Center to a recap of this month’s January sports.

Outside of the paper, our staffers are hard at work on various other projects as well. If you didn’t know, our podcast, The Beak Speaks, is available on multiple platforms, with new installments up every few weeks. Some staffers have been branching out into videos as well, which you can see on Spotify and on our Instagram @ahs_eagleera. Keep an eye out on our social media to catch our other content!

As always, please feel free to engage with us if you have something to say about our paper! You can reach out to us on Instagram or through our email—eagleera@ahseagles.org. We are eager for guest submissions and feedback. Even better, if you want to be part of the paper, whether it’s as a writer or a podcaster or an artist or anything else, make sure to select it as an elective when course selections begin very soon! Happy 2023 and happy reading, Eagles.