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Seniors showcase talents in performing arts outside of school

Ethan Solomon November 10, 2023

Senior Alex Dutton works the crowd as he performs a stand-up comedy set at Shadowbox Live Theater Company Oct. 20. (Photo by Ethan Solomon) While most students focus on homework and studying for tests...

Senior Zach Goldsand (fourth from left) is welcomed to Taiwan with other exchange students in a cultural learning activity. (Photo courtesy of Zach Goldsand)

An immersive experience: Bexley exchange students return with new perspectives

Dylan Horn November 10, 2023

Senior Zach Goldsand (fourth from left) is welcomed to Taiwan with other exchange students in a cultural learning activity. (Photo courtesy of Zach Goldsand) On their own in a foreign country for almost...

Orchestra helps Spangler show gratitude to Ronald McDonald House

Nicholas Nanberg October 24, 2023

When the high school orchestra performs at The Ronald McDonald House in Cincinnati this February, the random stop in the middle of its trip to Nashville, Tennessee, might seem perplexing. For its director,...

Students broaden horizons with Nationwide Children’s Hospital internships

Zach Goldsand October 21, 2023

While most teens spent their summer waiting tables and scooping ice cream, three Bexley students took the idea of a summer job to a new level by diving into the world of STEM at Nationwide Children’s...

Scott Logsdon helps to prepare his student for their dive in The Bahamas. Now a biology teacher at Bexley, Logsdon's life has changed significantly since 1991. (Photo given to The Torch by Scott Logsdon)

From The Bahamas to Bexley: teachers’ past careers

Dylan Horn October 21, 2023

Scott Logsdon helps to prepare his student for their dive in The Bahamas. Now a biology teacher at Bexley, Logsdon's life has changed significantly since 1991. (Photo given to The Torch by Scott Logsdon) When...

Student section received after COVID-19 decline

Sid Sivaraman February 14, 2023

From football Friday nights to basketball rivalries, the high school student section has been packed game after game this year, proving that it’s truly back after two years of masking and socially...

Sneaker collecting: students, staff find ways to show off their creative ‘soles’

Ciel Peacock February 14, 2023

From cowboy boots to sandals, the opportunities for shoes are endless. Yet for some students and staff at the high school, it's their sneaker collections that puts their best foot forward. Sophomore...

Ukrainian student escapes war, finds new home in Bexley

Bromley Phay February 14, 2023

The sirens blaring all around, people rapidly gathering essential items and scrambling to the safety of a bunker as planes soar overhead. Waiting, waiting, waiting…waiting to know when it’s safe...

Senior Sydnie Smith (center) pictured with father and middle school P.E. teacher, John Smith (left) and mother and intervention specialist, Brooke Smith (right). (Photo by Ciel Peacock)

Students adjust to having parents as teachers

Ciel Peacock September 27, 2022

Some parents are lawyers, some doctors and some are accountants. However, you don’t find their kids in the same building as them, hard at work each day. Yet for many students with parents who...

Everyone’s biggest nightmare: students share their most embarrassing classroom stories

Annabel Long September 27, 2022

We’ve all answered a question wrong in front of the class and had our faces turn tomato red. We’ve all knocked our water bottle over while the teacher is talking, and we’ve all felt the heat rise...

Students, teachers battle second round of COVID-19

Noa Pitstick September 27, 2022

You think you're safe. It’s already happened to you once, so surely it won’t happen again. You wake up with a sore throat, a cough, a fever. Maybe it’s just a cold. You take a COVID-19 test. You...

Ferrets, puffer-fish, bees, oh my: the world of exotic pets

Bromley Phay September 27, 2022

They're sneaky, stinky and spiky, but we still love them. From ferrets to pufferfish, these high school students and staff members stray away from typical pets and choose to live with exotic creatures. Junior...

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