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The Garfield Messenger

The student news source of Garfield High School

The Garfield Messenger

The student news source of Garfield High School

The Garfield Messenger

Spacing Out

Spacing Out

Clay Stauffer December 19, 2025

Defined by Ray Oldenburg in 1989, third spaces are social locations that are separate from either work/school and home that contribute to the health and wellbeing of communities. Think about it as a local...

Ancient Ink

Ancient Ink

Nathaniel Myers, Staff December 5, 2025

“We as humans have this tradition and desire to decorate our bodies that literally goes back to the time we [became] human,” Dr. Aaron Deter-Wolf, one of the world’s foremost researchers of ancient...

Fan-Demonium

Fan-Demonium

Clay Stauffer December 5, 2025

What does parasocial really mean? Cambridge Dictionary has released its 2025 word of the year: “parasocial”, a word that has only recently gained popularity as a way to describe the often toxic...

Chic for Cheap

Ida Bralower (she/her), Staff December 5, 2025

Chic (noun) - elegantly and stylishly fashionable.  With the new year coming up people are scrambling to reinvent themselves. Whether it’s fitness guru, goth, or granola; adding a bit of chicness...

Dear Dawgs

Dear Dawgs

Joshua Miovic, Staff December 5, 2025

Dear Dawgs,   About a week ago I was walking to school and when I was halfway there I realized that I had forgotten to eat my breakfast. It was either turning around and walking a WHOLE 10 minutes...

Graphic by Mona Bezzaz

Dear Dawgs…

Mona Bezzaz, Staff November 14, 2025

Dear Dawgs, I have severe separation anxiety, and I cannot possibly leave my pet parrot, Pedro, at home. Believe me, I’ve tried, but something about those defeated squawks as I step out the door fills...

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Turkey Tales

Skye Johnson, Staff November 14, 2025

Turkules: Meet Turkules (rhymes with Hurcules), a turkey who lived in West Orange, New Jersey. To say Turkules lived in West Orange is a vast understatement; this menace ruled the town with an iron...

How to Date While Being a Cheapskate

Eric Wakefield, Staff November 14, 2025

Everyone loves a dinner date, but food in Seattle is expensive and everyone could use alternative date spots that don’t require spending money to visit or enjoy. This list focuses on date spots that...

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Want to read more but can’t concentrate?

Rafael Brewer, Staff Writer November 14, 2025

You know you’re supposed to be reading your lit book, but it's just so boring! Who cares about what some guy in the 1830s wrote in his diary?! And if you read one more sentence in Romeo and Juliet that...

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