News – Central Times

Comment by Gas Station employee sparks protest

July 17, 2019

A video of an employee at the Bucky’s Mobil gas station at the intersection of Washingto...

Pro-life Club paper links spark debate about freedom of speech

May 17, 2019

Earlier this month, Naperville Central’s Pro-life Club hung pink and blue paper links in the activit...

Naperville North graduate shares strategies behind historic wins on ‘Jeopardy!’

May 16, 2019

James Holzhauer was a preschool math prodigy, took advanced math and science classes and skipped a g...

Face Forward

Noelle Schwarz, Prem Chandrasekar, and Sam Ruvarac

May 15, 2019

On the weekend of April 30, four white students from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill. ...

Esports facility coming to Naperville Central

May 1, 2019

The video editing lab adjacent to Room 225 will be converted over the summer to accommodate Central's...

PAWS Club spreads love for animals through Central

April 22, 2019

Fueled by delicious vegan snacks and a strong passion for animals and the environment, PAWS Club has ...

FFA community project helps save area monarch butterflies population

Prem Chandrasekar, Staff Writer

April 22, 2019

The Naperville Central chapter of the Future Farmers of America is planning a community project to save the monarch butterflies that pass through Naperville every year on their way to Mexico. Senior Julia Newcomb, who runs the project, and fellow members of FFA are planning to give away care packages of milkweed for...

Central students and faculty react to national college scam

Alana Cervera, Online Managing Editor

April 22, 2019

Eight schools including Yale, Wake Forest, Stanford and Georgetown universities, along with the University of Southern California, the University of San Diego, the University of Texas, Austin and the University of California, Los Angeles, are under investigation for their roles in a college admissions scandal that recentl...

Debate students win IHSA State for the first time in Central history

Madeleine Chan, Profiles Editor

April 19, 2019

For the first time in school history, Central’s debate team won the IHSA state champion team ti...