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Seniors Margaret McCurdy and Sophie Johnson won the Iowa High School Speech Association's highest honor. Photo by Vorland Photography

IHSSA All-State Festival

Gabrielle Engler, Staff Writer April 9, 2026

Two of Atlantic High School's students, Margaret McCurdy and Sophie Johnson, participated in the IHSSA All-State Festival. The event was held at the University of Northern Iowa on March 30. To attend the...

The practices have begun and the show is in action.

Now Showing: “Little Women”

Dylin Ball, Staff Writer March 20, 2026

The performing arts side of Atlantic High School is now showing their play they have been rehearsing. It is called "Little Women." The cast gave AHS students a micro performance on Tuesday. The full show...

AHS Show choir students perform at the 2025 Harlan Cycle Cynsation. (Photo taken by Bo Khongmaly)

Show Choir Success

Gabrielle Engler, Staff Writer February 23, 2026

AHS show choir went to Harlan on Feb. 14th to participate in “Harlan Cyclone Cynsation.” They left the school at eight thirty in the morning and performed at one ten in the afternoon. Their theme was...

2026 Grammy Predictions

2026 Grammy Predictions

Erik Ramirez, Staff Writer January 30, 2026

On February 1, 2026, the 68th annual Grammy Awards will take place at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Grammy Awards are one of the biggest nights in music, celebrating artists, songs, and albums that...

Dr. Jerell Horton of Vestavia Hills High School (Alabasma) conducting Junior/Senior Band during Practice. Morning of Jan 19.

Swing into SWIBA Honor Band!

Landyn Wiersma, Staff Writer January 29, 2026

Atlantic High School hosted this year's Southwest Iowa Band Association (SWIBA) Honor Band on Jan. 19. Starting around 8:30 that morning, many schools from around the area, including Harlen, Glenwood,...

New vocal music teacher Hunter Khongmaly meets the Atlantic audience at the Jan. 15 Swing-Inn concert.

Choir Program Under New Direction

Gabrielle Engler, Staff Writer January 18, 2026

After being without a choir director for a whole semester, AHS has finally received one. Hunter Khongmaly is a fresh graduate from Iowa State University. He previously attended high school not too far...

Senior Fletchor Toft plays the Djembe during “Rain Music.”

An Insight Into This Year’s Chamber Choir

Landyn Weirsma, Staff Writer January 8, 2026

The Atlantic High School’s Chamber Choir entered the 2025-26 school year with enthusiastic goals and mindsets, a love for music, and a shared determination to grow alongside each other as individual...

Check out the play this spring and watch your classmates in the production.

Spring Play: Little Women

Erik Ramirez, Staff Writer December 22, 2025

This year’s spring play is Little Women, directed by Musical Director Mark Andersen. The story is set during the Civil War era and follows the lives of the March sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy, as they...

Atlantic Art Classes

Atlantic Art Classes

Dylin Ball, Staff Writer December 17, 2025

Art is often known as a way for humans to express themselves through emotion and creativity. Mrs. Herrick-Williams wants her students to feel like this space is a “home base” for her kids to just come...

Jarrod O'Donnell takes the stage to conduct the choir members. This is the fall concert and O'Donnell's first directing of the choir. The concert is beautiful and the students sang great.

O’Donnell Takes Over the Music Department

Gabrielle Engler, Staff Writer December 8, 2025

By July of 2025, there were “double digits” of schools in Iowa without choir directors. Atlantic was one of those schools.  At the end of the 24-25 school year, former choir director Mikayla Stockhaus...

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