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Students and staff across the Fullerton Joint Union High School District [FJUHSD] received emails promoting a part time job offer with pay. The messages were set from compromised FJUHSD accounts.

District-wide scam emails bring summer shock

Irene Park, Editor-in-Chief September 23, 2025

Over the summer, students' and staff’s Gmail inboxes were greeted with the blue, underlined phrase “APPLY HERE,” enticing them to apply for a part-time job. The unsuspecting few who clicked the...

Students explore different stands on the third day of Club Rush during break on Thursday, Sept. 4.

BOUNCING BACK: SH freshman enrollment increases beyond projected expectations

Ashley Kang, News Editor September 22, 2025

Following an unforeseen decline for the 2024-2025 school year, freshman enrollment has increased by about 16.6%, school officials said. “We had about six or seven plus years of increasing enrollment,...

Sophomore Shizhen Jin places her phone in English teacher Christina Zubko’s “phone jail” outside Room 64 on Friday, Sept. 12, just before the start of sixth period.

SH expected to stay on track despite state-wide phone policy updates

Ashley Kang, News Editor September 18, 2025

While schools across California prepare to adopt phone policies, principal Craig Weinreich said Sunny Hills High School will implement little to no changes to its preexisting policies for the 2026-2027...

Former coaches Ralph Trigstead (left of jersey) and Tim Devaney (right of jersey) hold up former Lancer football player Jim Karsatos’ jersey from Ohio State University in commemoration of his achievements. This event took place during the halftime of football’s first home game of the season on Friday, Aug. 29, at the Buena Park High School Stadium.

SH athletic department honors football alum at first home game

Lauren Kang, Managing Editor September 1, 2025

On the night of the Lancers’ first home football game, a bright red and white jersey gleamed under the Friday night lights. The framed outfit was held up by former football and golf coach Tim Devaney,...

Freshmen Cora Woodward (left) and Evangeline Cowell (right) eat their lunches and socialize at one of five newly added picnic tables in front of the 20’s building.

WRAPPING IT UP: Murals, fixtures conclude 2024-2025 school year campus improvement projects

Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter June 14, 2025

This is the last of a three-part series on the additional changes to Sunny Hills facilities over the summer and during the 2024-2025 school year. These updates follow the larger makeover that started in...

The four National Merit semi-finalists for the 2024-2025 school year were announced in the Sunny Hills GOLD Standard Newsletter on Friday, Sept. 20.

7 decades of honoring the brightest

Philip Cho, Cub Reporter June 5, 2025

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. [NMSC] has something in common with Disneyland in Anaheim, McDonald’s and Guinness World Records. 1955. That’s the year each organization or franchise was...

New campus supervisor Jason Hughes (right) demonstrates how he would listen to supervisor liaison Randall Avalos’s walkie-talkie message in the hallway near the 10s wing on Friday, April 11.

Latest addition to campus supervisor team a familiar face

Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter June 4, 2025

Jason Hughes is the most recent addition to the campus supervisor team at Sunny Hills, increasing the total number to four. “My job is to keep everyone safe; that’s the primary goal,” Hughes said. Besides...

Then-sophomore Ayden Currier (left) and then-junior Kayla Choe mop and clean the drawings and messages in chalk left by the senior pranksters in the quad on May 24, 2024. Custodians also worked to clean other parts of the campus.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Senior pranks

Rose Park May 28, 2025

May 24, 2024, was unlike most school mornings at Sunny Hills. During zero and much of first period after that, instead of students being in their classrooms, most likely preparing for finals the following...

Fire Truck 6 from the Fullerton Fire Department arrives by the swimming pool to investigate the potential gas leak situation during fourth period on Friday, May 2.

On-campus gas leak leads to classroom evacuations

Irene Park, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2025

A suspected gas leak in the restroom in the back west parking lot forced the evacuation of students and teachers in the 130s and 150s building for most of fourth period, but no one was hurt and no damage...

English long-term substitute teacher Tom Wiegman lectures during first-period Advanced Placement English Literature class today in Room 32 while the ViewSonic monitor behind him shows no internet access. Sunny Hills and all campuses in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District could not access the internet for the whole school day though it was restored within an hour after school.

Internet outage hits Fullerton Joint Union High School District again

Seowon Han, Web Editor-in-Chief March 11, 2025

This time around, the one thing school officials were certain of was it wasn’t a cyberattack, though today’s 12-hour network outage that lasted the whole school day prompted many teachers and students...

Former coaches Tim Devaney (left) and Mike Schade (right) stand next to the CIF Hall of Fame plaque with their respective awards on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, at The Grand Conference Center Grand Ballroom in Long Beach.

CIF inducts two veteran SH coaches to its Hall of Fame

Caroline Shin, Staff Reporter March 5, 2025

Three CIF-SS soccer victories in 1987, 2016 and 2022. Another three CIF-SS football championships in 1983, 1990 and 1992. Five soccer SoCal Regional appearances.  Over 10 golf league titles. Twelve...

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