• Election Day - No School - Nov. 5
  • Senior WIN Testing - Nov. 6 & 7
  • Senior Portrait Makeup - Nov. 8 - Palmetto Room
  • Progress Reports Distributed - Nov. 11 - 15
  • Financial Aid Night - Nov. 12; 6 PM - Performing Arts Center
  • Early Signing Day (Excluding Football) - Nov. 13; 9 AM
  • Wando Community 5k Run/Walk - Nov. 16
  • Fall Break - Nov. 25 - 30
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Hana Donnelly

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor

Hana Donnelly is a third year staff member and Co-Website Editor. She is a musician, photographer, writer, salad connoisseur, and computer nerd.

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As I spun the focus ring of my camera, granules of sand crunched within. The wind howled in my ears. And, of course, there were people using flashlights at the bottom of the boardwalk. The circumstances could not be any worse. I had given up. I figured there was no way I would be able to take any photos in the condition the beach was in. As we crossed the boardwalk back to where my car was parked, my friend sat on a bench to adjust their shoes. I put my camera on the ground. The clouds opened, revealing the glowing core of the Milky Way behind them. I flipped my camera on. The settings were already in place, I just had to press the shutter. I screamed when I saw the result.

[Photo] Gallery: Best photos of the year

May 31, 2020
Jackson Weeks smiles on his porch.

[Photo] Senior spotlight: Jackson Weeks

Alli Ryan, Staff writer
May 18, 2020
Deanna Douglass sits on her front porch.

[Photo] Senior spotlight: Deanna Douglass

Audrey Kelly, Co-Writing Editor
May 16, 2020
A billboard on Mount Pleasant's Highway 17 reads "Save lives stay home #COVID19." A stay at home order was passed in Mount Pleasant on March 31.

[Photo] Wando plans for virtual graduation ceremony

Eva Chillura, Co-Editor in Chief
May 13, 2020
Where is class of 2020 going?

Where is class of 2020 going?

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
May 7, 2020
The lights of the Wando sports fields were turned on at 8 p.m. and names were read at 8:20 p.m. on April 24. "I am super sad the season ended because the group of girls this year just had a really strong connection," said senior varsity lacrosse player Anna Turner. "I'm gonna miss them and the program a lot"

Wando honors spring senior athletes from stadium

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
April 25, 2020
Tiger King

Netflix’s Tiger King a wild portrayal of untamed personalities

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
April 22, 2020
The front yard of Derek and Lisa Deakins was filled with PA speakers, microphones, and music on April 17.

Family holds concert from front yard to socially distant neighborhood

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
April 18, 2020
Eliza and Caroline Bierman sit next to a donation bin on March 2. They worked with their mom to bag snacks and medical supplies that were donated to hospitals in the Charleston area.

Gallery: Finding connection amid social distancing

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
April 3, 2020
Maretta and Ed McKenna set up candlelight luminaries on April 1. Maretta took inspiration from annual luminary events in Hamlin Plantation, especially those around the winter holidays. "To me it’s just to curse the darkness and get rid of the darkness, and show that there’s light and there’s hope," she said.

Fitness chalk challenges appeared over Hamlin from the beginning of school closings. The one on Shell Fish Court was sparked by Maretta McKenna’s container of chalk left out for passerbys to use. “I’ve got this chalk sitting in my garage, so if the kids can use it I’m happy,” McKenna said. “You know, it gives me a sense of hope and belonging to the community and I think that’s important.”

A vase of flowers with a note reading “Please take a flower and stay well and hopeful” sits on a cooler outside Maretta and Ed McKenna’s house. Maretta has set up interactives on her driveway since March 30, including chalk passerbys could draw with. "Whatever I can do to put a smile on somebody’s face, even if I don’t know I did it, is good," she said.

Eliza and Caroline Bierman sit next to a donation bin on March 2. They worked with their mom to bag snacks and medical supplies that were donated to hospitals in the Charleston area.

Intramed Plus nurse Brian Daigle loads donated snacks into his car to bring to MUSC Main Campus.

A plastic bin holding snacks sits on the porch of Sandra Klein’s house with a sign reading, “MUSC, Roper & Trident Snack Bin Drop Off.” Klein began collecting healthy snacks after finding inspiration through Facebook. The reach of Klein’s snack campaign had expanded to East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant by March 28. “I’m planning to just continue doing this now for a while and just kind of gauging where we are next week versus the next week,” Klein said.

A man with a mask enters MUSC on March 2. A security checkpoint was set up in which visitors and workers alike must pass through to continue into the hospital.

[Photo] The Medical University of South Carolina tackles coronavirus in Charleston

Isabella Spuler, Staff writer
April 2, 2020
Grieving senior year

Grieving senior year

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
March 19, 2020

March 18, 7:00 p.m.

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
March 18, 2020
Shelves containing hand sanitizer and household cleaners were empty at Harris Teeter March 15.

Gallery: Coronavirus leaving shelves empty

Hana Donnelly and Emma Martin
March 15, 2020
Spending a weekend at the Naval Academy

Spending a weekend at the Naval Academy

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
March 5, 2020
President Donald Trump points towards a camera while on stage at his Feb. 28 campaign rally. "The press is in hysteria mode [over Wuhan Coronavirus]" Trump said. "CNN, fake news -- and the camera just went off" he said pointing at a camera whose shutter had just closed.

[Photo] Donald Trump campaign rally arrives in Charleston

Maxwell Markwald, Staff writer
February 29, 2020
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[Photo] Gallery: Local views

February 25, 2020
As I spun the focus ring of my camera, granules of sand crunched within. The wind howled in my ears. And, of course, there were people using flashlights at the bottom of the boardwalk. The circumstances could not be any worse. I had given up. I figured there was no way I would be able to take any photos in the condition the beach was in. As we crossed the boardwalk back to where my car was parked, my friend sat on a bench to adjust their shoes. I put my camera on the ground. The clouds opened, revealing the glowing core of the Milky Way behind them. I flipped my camera on. The settings were already in place, I just had to press the shutter. I screamed when I saw the result.

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It was a warm, still night when I arrived at the top of the parking garage. A storm flashed lightning over the ocean behind me, and the sun glowed orange behind the Ravenel Bridge in front of me. A plane passed over my head and into the silent storm. I stood at the rail, feeling the hot breeze from the street below flip up my hair. A church became enshrouded in its nighttime light, and no cars were passing below me -- the stoplight was red. But the stoplight within me turned green, and I knew the calm before the storm would be frozen still by my camera.

Junior Le'Arian Doiley smiles as she proudly wears her purple toned hoodie for Wando's Tie-Dye Day.

[Photo] Spirit Week: Flannel Day Jan. 27

January 28, 2020
Boys Basketball defeats Cane Bay

Boys Basketball defeats Cane Bay

Hana Donnelly, Co-Website Editor
January 26, 2020
Wando Singers, Concert Choir and Men's Choir perform at winter concert

Wando Singers, Concert Choir and Men’s Choir perform at winter concert

Karson Powers and Hana Donnelly
December 11, 2019
Mugshot of sophomore George Bagwell meant for columns.

[Photo] The struggle of being a South Carolina football fan

George Bagwell, Staff Writer
November 26, 2019
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Astronomy classes watch the transit of Mercury

Hana Donnelly and Allison Hipes
November 11, 2019
A pile of felled lumber on the side of the Laurel Hill County Park trail. “When you’re walking even on the normal trails of the park and you see like a huge patch of trees gone, immediately the feeling that you are in the middle of the woods is gone,” Evans said.

[Photo] County thins part of Laurel Hill County Park forest

Marissa Coll, Staff writer
November 2, 2019
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