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The Student News Site of Kinnelon High School

Colt Chronicle

The Student News Site of Kinnelon High School

Colt Chronicle

Everywhere is a perfect place for horses to graze, even when not in paddocks! Photo by Camille Balo.

Smoke Rise Farms to Relocate to West Milford Equestrian Center

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 9, 2018

On Sep. 18, riders of the Smoke Rise Farms were informed of the barn’s closing; however, a relocation of the barn’s equine inhabitants will be taking place. The new home set to be for these four-legged creatures will be West...

Left panel: a large Lyman-alpha blob. Glowing hydrogen gas in the blob is shown by the yellow. A galaxy (white) is visible within the blob. The blue (x-ray) shows evidence for a growing supermassive black hole. Right panel: artist depiction of how a blob would look up close.

World Space Week: Day 5 – Himiko

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 8, 2018

Located 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth, Himiko, a giant gas cloud located in the constellation of Cetus, is considered to be one of the largest and most distant objects found in space. The cloud, spanning 55,000...

Model of Vostok 1 with its upper stage.

World Space Week: Day 4 – Humans in Space

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 7, 2018

From fruit flies in space rockets to human-crewed space vessels, hands-on space exploration in an environment that could quickly kill without the right gear has grown substantially. One of the biggest improvements pertaining to...

Early solar system artist concept.

World Space Week: Day 3 – The Formation of Our Solar System

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 6, 2018

Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Venus; all features that make up our solar system. But, how did our solar system, home to more than 550,000 asteroids, 181 moons, eight planets, and five dwarf planets, form? Well, the answer starts...

This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional, incredibly powerful telescope. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech

World Space Week: Day 2 – TRAPPIST-1

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 5, 2018

Life beyond our world has always been a controversial topic, with the lack of information regarding space, life, and the conditions in which living organisms can form, mainly because there are more than one heptillion observable...

Official NASA seal. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

The History and Future of NASA

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 5, 2018

With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) 60th birthday just occurring on Oct. 1, NASA has had many historic discoveries, launches, and events. From the early failure of Vanguard to the future plans of...

Official logo for World Space Week. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia

World Space Week: Day 1 – Copernican Heliocentrism

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 4, 2018

Oct. 4 marks the beginning of World Space Week, a United Nations-created event formed in 1999, that celebrates the contributions of space science and technology. Since then, it has become the largest public space event on Earth,...

1980s teen fashion. Picture by Notable Life.

Don’t Know What to Wear for Spirit Week?

Gabriella A, Staff Reporter October 4, 2018

Spirit Week (Oct. 15-19) seems to be getting closer and closer every minute. Theme day is important for getting points for your grade! Senior, Abby Bosch says, “Theme day is going to be so much fun because you can get a...

The Juul Product. Infographic by Vaporgeekz.com.

Juul Isn’t Cuul

Taylor Wittig, Staff Reporter October 3, 2018

Juuling is a teen epidemic that has grown considerably throughout the last decade. JUUL is an e-cigarette company that has created a product that teens find easy to hide or disguise as USB drives. The Food and Drug Administration...

New teacher, Mr. Zablocki in his classroom. Photo by Rachel Delaney.

The New Teacher on the Block: Peter Zablocki

Rachel Delaney, Staff Reporter October 3, 2018

This school year, Kinnelon High School hired eight new teachers, including Peter Zablocki, a history teacher from Morris Knolls High School. He has been teaching for 14 years: four at Morristown and 10 at Morris Knolls. “I...

A New Colt on Campus

A New Colt on Campus

Ethan Burt, Staff Reporter October 2, 2018

The Kinnelon High School campus rarely sees significant change; well no more.   As many readers may already know, a brand new statue was revealed at the halftime of the varsity home football game against Mountain Lakes...

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