North Polk Comet Communications

11/23/2024

STATE CHAMPIONS ❤️🖤☄️

Look into some of the stories from a season worth remembering!

11/22/2024

An array of different perspectives from your favorite Newspaper editors now up on the Orbit ☄️!

Click the link on our story to check them out!

08/20/2023

I am excited to announce that the 2022-23 yearbook has been finalized, finished and is currently submitting. This feat (getting it done BEFORE the next school year begins) has not happened since the 2018-19 book. Covid pushed everything back and we continued to plow through...but we weren't able to make it happen UNTIL TODAY!

Woo hoo!!!!!

Please note: This doesn't mean we will get the yearbooks this week, or this month. I would wager it will be around October 1. (Please feel free to pass this tidbit on.)

07/16/2023

Go vote for our North Polk athletes for The Register's Athlete of the Week!! (Katelyn in Softball, Reece in Baseball)

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/07/16/register-female-and-male-athlete-of-the-week-candidates-for-july-9-15/70417172007/?fbclid=IwAR3RH00gqHmdrnsUd-D6dTIXMtIG56vwPC3j7a8-51fDC64bL93sG2BSnfc

From Pleasant Valley's Jessie Clemons to Ames' Austin Gabrielson, here are the Des Moines Register Athletes of the Week candidates for July 9-15.

06/02/2023

We've had a lot of questions about when the high school yearbooks are delivered, so we wanted to put out an explanation for more of our readers to learn about the WHY of our FALL delivery date.

If we were to get the yearbooks back for a mid-May delivery (approximately May 15), we would have to stop producing pages by mid-February to get everything worked out with the printers/publishers, because A LOT of schools are also doing this, causing possible delays.

This also means we would not have anything for the end of the winter activity season and events (wrestling, basketball, cheerleading, jazz band, show choir, speech, musical/play, winter formal, depending on the date scheduled).

There would also be nothing from the spring and summer seasons or events. This would include Prom, Senior Trip, and Graduation. While this wouldn't be as important for an underclassmen, perhaps, a senior would not have those activities and events in the yearbook of their graduation year.

Students receive their books usually in late October to early November. This includes all summer activities. We send out notices to the most recent graduates to pick their books up in the office, and sophomores through seniors will have them distributed to them at that time.

Thank you for taking a few moments to learn more about our yearbook and the reasons behind our fall delivery date.

If you still need to purchase your yearbook, you can order it here:

Yearbook Market - School Memories Live Here

05/18/2023

Because we are always behind the camera, I have no pictures of the yearbookies...but today we had tearful goodbyes, even though we all know we won't finish this book until AFTER summer activities...so in honor of Hallie and Danyel (and special mention to Maddie), we are previewing the cover of the 2023 book, based off of the original 1st North Polk yearbook, from 1957.

05/18/2023

On Tuesday, we celebrated Olivia's 100th published article...today, we wish her well at the University of Minnesota in her future career as a journalist.

--Mrs. Stubbs and Mrs. Trier

05/12/2023

The yearbook staff is looking for pictures from the following events and activities...if you are willing to share, please email them to Mrs. Trier [email protected]

Homecoming dress up days
Wrestling
6th and Nowhere jazz choir
Concert band
Boys' and Girls' Tennis
Girls' Golf

05/10/2023

Our last Galaxy News with the senior broadcasters...

THANK YOU Charlie, Will and Tyler for crazy ideas, even crazier projects, laughable moments, creative taglines, and for taking the program to more audiences as we continue to grow the program.

--Mrs. Stubbs and Mrs. Trier

02/28/2023

Do you take action pictures of your students and their teammates/friends at activities or events? If you do, please consider sharing with yearbook students, as we are a small (but mighty!) force of 4 this spring semester. Please submit any photos you would like to share at the link below. You will be asked to make an account the first time, and you are able to upload from your phone. Please note: This does not guarantee we will use them all, but it does help us get a variety of shots and people on each page. Thank you in advance from The Comet yearbook staff.

Pictavo Community is a secure online portal for students, teachers, parents, grandparents and community members to connect with their school.

02/27/2023

We are in search of any photos from Student Council activities and from the Honor Society induction from the fall. Please email them to Mrs. Trier [email protected]

Thank you!