Ever since joining Talon my sophomore year of high school, I have fantasized about writing my senior column, the sacred piece that would signal an end to my high school journalism career. With all the pressure riding on this one final publication, I repeatedly told myself to avoid being cliche, whatever the cost. Well, here I am now, and this is probably the most cliche thing...

On February 23, the fifteen dancers on the Rochester Varsity Dance Team were sitting in a circle on the floor of Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Fl. at Dance Team Union Nationals holding hands and praying to hear their team’s name announced in the Top 10. They did. The RVDT won 5th in the country for their pom dance and 7th for jazz, making them double finalists.  “Once...

I make lists for just about everything, and my upcoming 18th birthday was no exception. I had eagerly scribbled out the names of my invitees, tirelessly researched the perfect venue, and already knew which balloons I’d want to wake up to on that magical day of entry into adulthood. But quarantine? Yeah, that was definitely not on my list. Having accepted that my 18th birthday...

Rochester High School offers Chinese 1 and 2 to students, and these classes are taught by Mrs. Yingming Wu. Chinese 1 is a novice course that’s purpose is to introduce students who have little or no Chinese background to the language and culture. “This course will focus on the Chinese Pinyin system,” Mrs. Wu said. “Tones, rules of phonetic spelling, and pronunciation...

When Chef Chris Johnson graduated from Rochester High in 1997, he was excited for whatever lie in front of him. But what he didn’t know was that in just a few decades, he would start and run a largely successful restaurant in his hometown. The Meeting House, located on Main & Third in Downtown Rochester, is visited by 500 people a day who are in the mood for some Seasonal...