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With the fall sports season underway, the Dougherty Valley High School womens volleyball team finds themselves with roughly a 160% increase in interest...
DVHS needs to stop leaving student athletes on the sidelines
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DV water polo athletes learn to fight to stay afloat
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Jillian Steinmetz, Staff Writer
October 3, 2025
While students tend to only see their instructors in an academic light, teachers still indulge in guilty pleasures from time to time. Many of these are...
DVHS teachers bear the burden of SRVUSD budget cuts
Budget cuts in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District have left Dougherty Valley High...
DV world language teachers enhance their classes with culture
From French I to AP Chinese, world language teachers at Dougherty Valley High School use culture...
The 2025 Art and Wind Festival blew the community away
The Art and Wind Festival is an annual festival that features performances, crafts and food...
Inika Katragadda, Opinions Editor
October 5, 2025
Siblings consume the position of being the headache creators, the snack thieves and the relentless copycats. Throughout the last 15 years, my sister has perfected all three...
Neglecting CTE Courses Holds Students Back
You’ve learned algebra, you know how to write DBQ’s, and you can balance chemical reactions....
Fear controls DV students’ careers
“What do you wanna be when you grow up?” the ultimate question that has defined us all...
DV food culture has turned poisonous
Tell me if this sounds familiar to you. You walk into a Dougherty classroom during third period...
Maya Manikandan, Staff Writer
October 5, 2025
As the days become shorter, the weather becomes cooler and the work seems never-ending, we all could use a break, and fall is the perfect time for that. It’s the best time...
Game Over: the demise of board games
My family has never been a "Monopoly" family — the kind of family that could spend hours...
DV students review summer box office hits
This summer, many big, long-anticipated blockbusters hit theaters, including several remakes...
Transforming tales: fan art and fan fiction throughout history
Reimagining stories has always been an important part of art. From Greek tragedies to high...
Andrew Chan, Sports Copy Editor
October 6, 2025
With the fall sports season underway, the Dougherty Valley High School womens volleyball team finds themselves with roughly a 160% increase in interest...
DVHS needs to stop leaving student athletes on the sidelines
When imagining what playing a high school sport might look like, many people picture a student...
DV water polo athletes learn to fight to stay afloat
The DVHS water polo team has existed for about 12 years, and has endured its ups and downs...
- Humans of DV
February 15, 2025
Inika Katragadda, Luke Santorsiero, Anika Goyal, and Ariya Shah - Exclusives
February 8, 2024
Shreyas Sambara, Arshia Singh, Hebe Wang, and Emily Wong - Humans of DV
March 19, 2023
Ananya Mukherjee, Anaisha Das, Allan Zhang, and Sofia Jones Rivera - Humans of DV
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Abby Kapur, Ekroop Kaur, and Srishreya (Shreya) Arunsaravanakumar - Humans of DV
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Shreyas Sambara, Anaisha Das, Saanvi Haridas, and Anya Ayyappan - Humans of DV
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