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2025 Promposal contest submissions
2025 Promposal contest submissions
Maddie Cimino, Editor in Chief • April 5, 2025

This year, The Knight Crier received many creative promposal submissions. We’d like to thank everyone who submitted and wish each contestant the best of luck! In the article below, you will find all of the submissions that qualified for the contest based on the rules stated in this article. Voting will begin today, April 5th, starting...

2025 Knight Crier Promposal Contest is here!
Maddie Cimino, Editor in Chief • April 3, 2025

Knight Crier’s most anticipated event is back! The Promposal Contest! The entry with the most votes wins two free senior prom tickets. The...

Knight Crier staff to be replaced by AI following DOGE cuts
Caroline Walsh, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

The Knight Crier has turned into the knights crying as North Penn High School (NPHS) is set to lose its beloved newspaper staff next school year...

North Penn purchases fleet of cyber trucks
Marie Quiles-Rosa, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

North Penn students and staff are out with the old and in with the new! A new shocking addition has been made to the building: 25 cyber trucks....

North Penn adds new valedictorian to the mix in sign of the times
Maddie Cimino, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

On March 19th with the confirmation of the 2025 Commencement ceremony, North Penn High School also leaked information regarding this year’s...

Abandoned Rite Aid to Become the Ultimate Cookie Destination for NPHS
Tyler Agriss, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

After years of serving as an unofficial wildlife sanctuary for overgrown weeds and abandoned shopping carts, the long-forgotten Rite Aid on the...

Group Chat Scandal! An actual screenshot from  part of a group text that accidentally included a member of the KC staff.
Knight Crier reporter accidentally included in group chat about takeover of Souderton SD
Lirpa Loof, Staff Writer • April 1, 2025

LANSDALE - No longer “top secret” plans for a possible North Penn annex of the Souderton School District fell into the hands of a Knight Crier reporter last week when...

So many options, what will you choose?
Well read, well fed
Gianna Ciccone, Content Editor • March 22, 2025

When you think of chores, you probably think of things like sweeping, doing the dishes, and other menial household tasks.  But when someone told me that they don’t read...

Magazines, a rare sight, sitting on a coffee table for casual reading and flipping.
I miss my stack of old magazines
Marley Capple, Staff Writer • March 20, 2025

Carrie Bradshaw once said how she used to skip out on her necessities to buy a copy of Vogue Magazine when she first moved to New York. Obviously with Carrie being a fictional...

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Mrs Schmidt joyfully sitting in her classroom, ready to begin another great day of teaching!
Schmidt spreads smiles and support
Cate Trapani, Staff Writer • March 18, 2025

Peddling down the Wissahickon trail with the shining warm sun out and coming home to see a nice ready...

Fortune's time at the high school has brought him down many paths.
For NP junior, move to North Penn was a true Fortune
Savannah Lanyi, Staff Writer • February 27, 2025

Most people who know Bryce Fortune, or “Chocolate Biggums” as many call him, wouldn’t imagine he...

Kenny Felton with his kind and infectious smile
Kenny Felton: a Leader, not a Follower
Cate Trapani, Staff Writer • February 19, 2025

When it comes to any schedule changes, students don’t have to fret about knowing the schedule because...

North Penn senior, Mac Buchanan, poses with her SkillsUSA first place medal
Beyond the Brush for Mac Buchanan
Bella Centeno, Staff Writer • February 18, 2025

For some, hair and makeup are just necessary chores for daily life. For North Penn Senior Mac Buchanan,...

Mrs. Dixon's love for teaching has been displayed all over the country.
Teacher Spotlight: Ms. Carrie Dixon
Tyler Agriss, Staff Writer • February 10, 2025

For 25 years, Ms. Carrie Dixon has been shaping teenagers' minds across the country. But, beyond the...

Principal Kyle Hassler looks over the basketball court from above in the weight room in preperation to call a game.
Hassler and McKenna to pick up the mic
Kyle Bonner, Sports Editor • January 28, 2025

Tune in to NPTV on the 31st for a basketball doubleheader and two games worth of commentating from Principal...

North Penn senior, Cece Ahart, stands in front of the thespian troupe's bulletin board in the theater hallway.
Behind the curtains: A look into North Penn’s theater and Marching Band
Claire Segrest, Associate Editor • January 15, 2025

  North Penn high school is known for its outstanding extracurricular. From its championship...

Sophomore Aiko Chavez has moved a shocking six times before her sixteenth birthday, including an international move to Okinawa, Japan.
Constant relocation with Aiko Chavez
Bella Centeno, Staff Writer • December 19, 2024

Moving is hard for everyone. Between packing everything you own, saying goodbye to friends, and adjusting...

2025 Promposal contest submissions
2025 Promposal contest submissions
Maddie Cimino, Editor in Chief • April 5, 2025

This year, The Knight Crier received many creative promposal submissions. We’d like to thank everyone who submitted and wish each contestant the best of luck! In the...

Newly implemented microphones in classrooms.
Classrooms buzzing under Trump administration
Gianna Ciccone, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

Skibidi. Bzzz. This is a checkpoint so it will not be eligible for SCL. Bzzz. Sus. Bzzz. Everyone fails this test. Bzzz. On god. Bzzz. You should know this already. Bzzz....

Help the art teachers save J-Pod!! Consider buying a mouse to support their cause.
North Penn art department sells mice to save J-Pod
Savannah Lanyi, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

“We’re doing all that we can.” That’s what each of the J-pod art teachers are saying, as they fight to “keep J-pod weird,” and resist renovations. Yet what...

North Penn's Got Talent: a night of music, dance, and memorable performances
North Penn’s Got Talent
Claire Segrest, Associative Editor • March 24, 2025

North Penn high school held it's North Penn's Got Talent on Friday March 21st. 12 groups and soloists competed and showcased their skills to an audience of their peers and...

The most electrifying man in sports: Mr. Chris Frey to join WWE
The most electrifying man in sports: Mr. Chris Frey to join WWE
Helene Schuler, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

Finally… “The Dean of Pain” has come back to World Wrestling Entertainment. While the nickname will seem unfamiliar to North Penn students, the face under the mask has...

The North Penn Knights celebrate on the ice as the Pennsylvania 2A state champions.
North Penn Ice Hockey claims first state title in school history
Kyle Bonner, Sports Editor • March 25, 2025

MOON - Fresh off of the their first Flyer's Cup title, the Knights (21-4, 16-2) headed five hours north to face Erie Cathederal Prep at Robert Morris University in the PA...

2025 North Penn Baseball team huddling pre-game at spring training in Vero Beach, Flordia
2025 Spring Sports Preview
Kyle Bonner, Tyler Agriss, Claire Segrest, and Maddie Cimino March 20, 2025

Team: Boys Track Head Coach: Jaimey Jones Assistant Coaches: Ron Jaros, Dom Calamia, Jon Fluck Last Year's Record: 5-0 League Champs Key returning players: Dave Costa,...

Recent Results
The campus of Columbia Univ. where a NP student snuck into a field trip and has been there ever since.
North Penn student left behind at Columbia
Joni Stuchko, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

Dear Knight Crier Staff, I’d like to start this letter by apologizing if it's not in the best writing...

The North Penn knight mascot has finally been revealed, and it is......
Janitor by day, knight by…night?
Marley Capple, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

After various events of wondering who walks around in the inflatable Knight mascot, it has been revealed...

Stay Inside the Lines! North Penn HS is following the lead of Montgomery Township in implementing new "calming measures" to mitigate parking lot congestion and dangers. It's an exciting and budget friendly solution.
Inspired by Montgomery Twp traffic plan, NPHS tackles parking lot dangers
Lirpa Loof, Staff Writer • April 1, 2025

TOWAMENCIN - In a classic case of people helping people, Montgomery’s Township’s recent solution...

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The classic Mickey pretzels are found in hands of many tourists around all the parks
The Ultimate Disney Food Review
Maddie Cimino, Helene Schuler, and Marley Capple April 4, 2025

DISNEY SPRINGS   Paradiso 37 Tropical Chicken Salad - 8/10 This salad was delicious and had great flavor, but it was far too expensive for what I got....

North Penn students were surprised to see all of the cameras set up through the hallways as their school is set to become a brand new ABC Reality TV Show
North Penn Knights Unscripted- NPHS selected for newest ABC series
Claire Segrest, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

LANSDALE—In a shocking turn of events, ABC has announced plans to turn North Penn High School into a reality TV show, citing the massive success of Abbott Elementary as...

Mr. Kenneth Bui during virtual audition
BREAKING: Mr. Kenneth Bui to appear in Season 28 of The Voice
Alyssa Valdivia, Lirpa Loof • April 1, 2025

TOWAMENCIN- While many students at North Penn don’t know the talents that their teachers possess, come next year, the whole world is going to learn about one of them. Season...

Pushart opens new doors at Kutztown University
Pushart opens new doors at Kutztown University
Marley Capple, Staff Writer • March 6, 2025
Jack Bachman poses wearing his new Brown University merch.
Bachman haromizes sucess with Brown’s Jabberwocks
Cate Trapani, Staff Writer • January 29, 2025
Prasham Jobanputra in the Penn Baseball dugout during his internship as Baseball Support Staff, Analytics, and Operations intern.
Love of sports leads Jobanputra to triple major at Drexel, internship at Penn
Gianna Ciccone, Content Editor • November 19, 2024