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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

Ari Matias Perez

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor

Ari Matias Perez is a senior at Selma High School.  She is a third year Clarion member.  She is also a co-editor for the news section and a co-editor in chief.  She is also the head drum major in the Selma High Black Bear Brigade. She enjoys spending time with her friends and family.  She loves her cat more than anything in the world.  In her free time she enjoys playing soccer and painting her nails.

All content by Ari Matias Perez
It’s Been Quite a Time

It’s Been Quite a Time

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
May 25, 2021
illustration by Jayden Barnes

If This Box Isn’t Me, Then Who Am I?

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
April 26, 2021

Selma High Reacts: President Trump’s Impeachment

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
March 21, 2021
Graphic illustrated by Jayden Barnes

The United States Welcomes A New Presidency

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
February 10, 2021

Selma Reacts to Recent Election Controversy

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
November 29, 2020

Gen Z Explained: “ur cancelled”

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
November 29, 2020

Local Elections You Didn’t Know About

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
October 25, 2020

The Country Goes Out to the Polls

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
October 1, 2020

Online School Tips

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
September 24, 2020
Drawing by Mia Salinas

Big Time Bears

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
March 6, 2020
Leslie Figueroa prepares to strike the ball.
Photo by Julianna Colado

Girls Soccer Perseveres Through the Season

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
January 31, 2020
Wingfield Makes Colors Fly on the Field

Wingfield Makes Colors Fly on the Field

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
December 2, 2019
The Selma High Cheer Squad performing in the school’s Morning Rally.
Photo by Dashrit Pandher

Rise and Shine, Selma High!

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
November 1, 2019
Alina Lopez preparing to strike the tennis ball.

Girls’ Tennis is Serving a Great Season

Ari Matias Perez, Co-Editor in Chief, Co-News Editor
September 30, 2019
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