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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.

Headline: 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, News Editor 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...

New campus supervisor Jennifer Davila (right) guides sophomore Andrew Loyola through the 5-Star app on Tuesday, Jan. 7, outside the 30s wing. Loyola asked what would happen if the timer for the bathroom pass ran out.

What does new campus supervisor and Jiminy Cricket have in common?

Soojin Cho, Copy Editor March 3, 2025

When it comes to some of her past and current life choices, campus supervisor Jennifer Davila points to a scene from the 1940 Disney movie, “Pinocchio.” Near the beginning of the animated Disney...

California Assembly Bill 1858, effective Jan. 1 of this year, aims to tamp down those campuses that hold active shooter drills.

LAW & ORDER: Legislation over certain safety drills effective Jan. 1 of this year prompt district officials to update protocols

Esther Ahn, Cub Reporter March 2, 2025

“Law & Order” explores passed bills relevant to teachers and students. What impact will these decisions have on the school? Despite new legislation that limits what public schools can do during...

Installed in February 2017, the jumbotron has been prone to malfunction lately, as in this case, last May.

BIG SCREEN NEEDS BIG UPDATE: School officials take steps to replace 8-year-old jumbotron with a more advanced model

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor February 18, 2025

With a nearly decade-old jumbotron that has been prone to break down in recent years, school officials plan to replace it with a more modern and reliable one – though the cost has not been determined. “The...

U.S. News & World Report ranks Sunny Hills nearly 200 spots higher than previous year with campus breaking into Top 800 schools nationwide

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor January 16, 2025

Honors level classes. Advanced Placement [AP] courses. International Baccalaureate [IB] pathway.  These are among the options Sunny Hills offers its students who seek rigorous, academic assignments...

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