Welcome to the first print edition of Mainstream for the 2023-2024 school year. Throughout these first few months, the new journalism team has worked day after day to learn and refine our editing skills to put together a first issue we can be proud to share with our readers.
Since the beginning of the year we have seen our new writers produce some strong articles that, along with those from our returning student-journalists, grace the pages of this issue. The articles in this issue cover a wide range of topics including pieces on colorism within Hollywood, the pros of a four-day school week, whether stress is real or imagined, and many others.

Additionally in this first issue, we seek to inform readers about our new principal, Mrs. Krawczel, report on the success of our Latin Dance Team and Marching Band, and offer some strong thoughts by our staff opinion writers.
I’d like to thank the entire Mainstream staff for their hard work and dedication, the editors for their willingness to jump right into the sometimes difficult editing process, and Mr. Woodward for his invaluable help as an advisor, editor and teacher. We could not have done this without any of you.

– Sage Suddleson (Editor-in-Chief)