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Illuminating the News for the Students by the Students

Lamplighter Media Productions

Illuminating the News for the Students by the Students

Lamplighter Media Productions

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Analysis suggests an increase of as much as 10% in youth voter turnout – with particularly high engagement in 11 key battleground states. That may have been game-changing for Joe Biden, who had the support of 61% of people aged 18-29.
Celebrities in Politics
Ahaan Thomas, Staff Reporter • October 17, 2024

Taylor Swift recently posted on Instagram to her 283 million followers. The caption read: “I’ve done...

Dunbar Hosts Forum for LGBTQ+ Students
Dunbar Hosts Forum for LGBTQ+ Students
Lilli Robey, Editor-in-Chief • April 12, 2024

FCPS established focus groups for marginalized students to hear their voices and protect them from...

As students enter Dunbar, they line up at the metal detectors and place their bags and other items on a table to be checked.
Student Arrested on Campus after Loaded Gun Found in Backpack
Lilli Robey, Editor-in-Chief • November 15, 2023

Around 9:30 a.m. an email from principal Scott Loscheider went out to Paul Laurence Dunbar’s families...

Daylight Savings Time does more bad than good. It's time for it to go.
Daylight Saving — Time for Change?
Ahaan Thomas, Staff Reporter • November 14, 2024

On Nov. 3 we gained an extra hour of sleep when Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended and our clocks fell...

Author Ellen Hopkins visited Dunbar to speak to students about banned books.
Why I Read Banned Books
Sia Vaish, Editor-In-Chief • November 11, 2024

Rape. Drugs. Abuse.  It wasn’t even the first chapter until one of the characters in Ellen...

The WPLD truck decorated with balloons for the homecoming parade.
Homecoming Week 2024
Reese Carpenter, Staff Reporter • October 17, 2024

Homecoming kicks off on Oct. 13 with a newly established neighborhood parade at Palomar. The weekend...

A&E
The American celebration of Halloween has evolved into a holiday revolving around candy, but it wasn't always that way.
What is Halloween?
Jennifer Quinonez, Staff Reporter • October 20, 2023

Halloween roots come from the pre-Christian Celts' festival of Samhain; this celebration happened from...

Blown Away
Blown Away
Isabelle Cramer, Staff Reporter • October 13, 2023

The Paul Laurence Dunbar 2023 marching band show is entitled “Blown Away.” The show features dandelion...

Titans and Love
Titans and Love
Hafsa Ali, Staff Reporter • September 21, 2023

Attack on Titan I’ll start with one you may have already heard of called Attack on Titan. Let me preface...

Meet the Staff
Benjamin Burch
Benjamin Burch
Chief of Photography
Sia Vaish
Sia Vaish
Staff Reporter
Adithya Rajesh
Adithya Rajesh
Staff Reporter
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