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The Clarion

The Student News Site of Selma High School

  • March 2025
  • “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Dear old world', she murmured, 'You are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables “Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “It’s such a relief to talk when one wants to and not be told that children should be seen and not heard.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
  • “That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

The Clarion

The Clarion

2024-2025 Staff

Taneisha Martinez
Co-News Editor

Taneisha Martinez

Taneisha Martinez is a senior at Selma High and a 3-year veteran of the Clarion. She is currently Co-News Editor. Martinez is passionate about reading and writing. She loves music and art.

Jasleen Ganger
Feature Editor

Jasleen Ganger

Senior Jasleen Ganger is a second year Clarion vet at Selma High. Jasleen is a reporter and Feature editor and as well as someone who is always willing to lend a helping hand. She likes to play tennis and spread her culture on...

Aneka Zamora
Co-Sports Editor

Aneka Zamora

Aneka Zamora is a senior at Selma High and is a 3rd year Clarion veteran. She is the Co-Editor for the sports column. She spends her free time in Selma High's water polo, soccer, and swim teams.

Jonna Trevino-Vasquez
Reporter

Jonna Trevino-Vasquez

Jonna Trevino-Vasquez is a junior at Selma High School, and a first year Clarion student. She is also Junior class treasurer and has been apart of ASB for the past 3 years. She enjoys spending time with family and friends.

Bethany Cazares
Reporter

Bethany Cazares

Bethany Cazares is a junior at Selma High School and currently in her first year reporting for the Clarion. Bethany has been in colorguard since seventh grade and loves to read and write!

Malika Basylbekova
Reporter

Malika Basylbekova

Malika Basylbekova is a junior experiencing her first year in the Clarion class. As an exchange student from Kyrgyzstan, she brings a fresh perspective to her own column in the school newspaper. Her hobbies are reading books and...

Samantha Yepez Ramirez
Reporter

Samantha Yepez Ramirez

Samantha Yepez Ramirez is a freshman at Selma High and a Clarion rookie, taking on the role of a reporter. Her hobbies consist of crocheting, sewing, drawing, and many others. She also has a cat named Yuki and a dog named Peluche.

Alexis Aguilera
Reporter

Alexis Aguilera

Lexi Aguilera is a first year Clarion student. She is Junior Class President, this is her third year doing leadership. This is also her third year being on the Varsity Cheer team. She loves Dutch and shopping. :)

Yasmine Abdulla
Reporter

Yasmine Abdulla

Yasmine Abdulla is a 1st year clarion student at Selma High. She is currently a senior who loves to read and watch films in her free time. A fun fact about Yasmine is that she is half Yemeni and half Mexican.

Gurleen Kaur
Reporter

Gurleen Kaur

Gurleen Kaur is a junior at Selma High, and it's her first year in Clarion. Gurleen enjoys shopping and traveling to places. She also loves listening to music and spending time with her family!

Areli Navarrete
Reporter

Areli Navarrete

Areli Navarrete is currently a first year Clarion student and she is a Senior at Selma High. She loves to spend time with her family and is also a part of our ASB team.

Nevaeh Santibanez
Reporter

Nevaeh Santibanez

Nevaeh Santibanez is a senior at Selma High, and a first year clarion student. Music is her therapy and she loves dancing. Nevaeh also enjoys watching true crime documentaries.

Jazmine Villar
Reporter

Jazmine Villar

Jazmine Villar is a 1st year Clarion student. She is also a sophomore at Selma High. She enjoys music and reading in her spare time!

Inshirah Awawda
Reporter

Inshirah Awawda

Inshirah Awawda is a first year Clarion student, a sophomore at Selma High, and a reporter of the Clarion. Inshrah is extremely honored and excited to have the opportunity to be in the Clarion. She is very family oriented, but...

Karizma Rios
Reporter

Karizma Rios

Karizma Rios is a 1st year Clarion student, and she's a Sophomore at Selma High. She is a reporter in Clarion and can't wait to see how this year goes! Aside from that, she loves to play soccer and spend time with family and friends!

Brayden Brumm
Reporter

Brayden Brumm

Senior Brayden Brumm is a first year Clarion reporter. He has a love for storytelling, being an aspiring future filmmaker. In his free time he enjoys making videos, some of them making it onto his youtube channel. You can find...

Kaylie Pineda
Reporter

Kaylie Pineda

Presently a sophomore, Kaylie Pineda is undertaking her first year in Clarion at Selma High, fulfilling the role of a class reporter. Kaylie loves to spend time with family and friends. She relishes engrossing herself in music,...

Maya Grewal
Reporter

Maya Grewal

Maya Grewal is a first year Clarion student, and a Sophomore at Selma High School. She is a reporter and loves writing for the school newspaper. Maya enjoys cheerleading, listening to music, and dancing.

Brenda Vasquez
Copy Editor

Brenda Vasquez

Brenda Vazquez is a senior at Selma high. She is a first year student in Clarion. She is a reporter and copy editor. She likes to spend her time volunteering for Key Club and helping others. With a passion for the arts, she enjoys...

Mr. Forest Castle
Journalism Adviser

Mr. Forest Castle

Mr. Castle is in his 34th year as an English teacher at Selma High, his 32nd as Journalism Adviser. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he worked in advertising in the Bay Area before entering the teaching field....

Monica Cruz Perez
Co-News Editor, Webmaster

Monica Cruz Perez

Monica Cruz Perez is a second year Clarion student. She's Clarion's Co-News Editor and Webmaster. Besides focusing on academics, Monica immerses herself in language learning, her primary focus being Chinese. In her free time,...

Kimberly Bojorquez
Co-Editor in Chief, Editorial Editor, Layout Editor

Kimberly Bojorquez

Kimberly Bojorquez is a second year Clarion student at SHS. She's this year's Co-Editor in Chief, Editorial Editor, and Layout Editor. Outside of Clarion, she is a Varsity tennis and track athlete. Kimberly enjoys musicals, reading,...

Yarektzy Navarro
Co-Editor in Chief, Kaleidescope Editor

Yarektzy Navarro

Yarektzy Navarro is a Senior at Selma High. She is a third year Clarion Vet, Co-Editor in Chief, and also Kaleidoscope Editor. Her favorite things consist of anything western, watching crime shows, going to concerts, 80s movies,...

Yossra Saad
Social Media Editor

Yossra Saad

Senior Yossra Saad is currently a first year Clarion student. She is a reporter as well as our Social Media Editor! A fun fact about Yossra is that she was born in Yemen and is fluent in Arabic!

Michael E. Casarez
Co-Sports Editor, Photo Editor

Michael E. Casarez

Michael Casarez is a senior and veteran journalist of The Clarion in his third year. He is the newspaper's Co-Sports Editor, Photo Editor, and reporter. He has a multitude of interests spanning an array of topics, including athletics,...