• • October 27: Model UN General Meeting (One Lunch, Rm. 156) •
  • • October 28: Mahjong Club (One Lunch, Rm. 254) •
  • • October 29: Anime Club (One Lunch, Rm. 254) •
  • • October 29: A4L Guest Speaker (One Lunch, Rm. 249) •
  • • October 30: ASL Club (One Lunch, 243) •
  • • October 31: NHS General Assembly Meeting (One Lunch, Auditorium) •
  • • October 31: Halloween, First Grading Period Ends •
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The Student News Site of Ocean Lakes High School

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Jamison Gutierrez

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor

Jamison Gutierrez is a junior, third-year journalism student, and news editor for the Current. He enjoys exercising, watching movies, playing video games, hanging out with friends, and walking his four dogs.

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Pictured from left to right: Peter McVries (David Jonsson), Raymond Garraty (Cooper Hoffman), Hank Olsen (Ben Wang), and Arthur Baker (Tut Nyuot) begin the walk. "The Long Walk" is 50-person survival game where the person that walks the longest wins. Courtesy of IMDb.

“The Long Walk” shows the cruelties of human nature

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
September 18, 2025
Pictured from left to right: Juniors Van Helgren and Zak Kain-Kuzniewski present the spirit week themes on August 26, 2025. The school wide event will take place from Sep. 2 to Sep. 5 with the themes of Disney Day, Sport Day, Surf vs. Turf Day, and OL Spirit Day.

First spirit week introduces old and new themes

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
August 31, 2025
Taken at the 2006 NBA Draft, the Toronto Raptors won the lottery with a 8.8% chance to eventually pick Andrea Bargnani. At the time, the lottery heavily favored teams with the worst records in the league until modifications to the system in 2019. (2006 NBA Draft/Brent Soderberg/CC-BY-2.0)

NBA draft lottery reveals its flaws

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
May 16, 2025
Pictured from left to right: Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Alexa Shostakov (David Harbour) look in fear at the Void taking over New York City. The long-awaited movie assembled a team of antiheroes, known as the New Avengers. Courtesy of Marvel.

Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” introduces compelling plot

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
May 16, 2025
From left to right: Sophomores Sam Pilli, Everett Keith, Michael Blackmore, James Curtis, Bisaj Shrestha, Ian Bulluss, Zach Waterman, Ivan Stepanov and Emerson Woodward take a long needed break after a hike on April 10, 2025 in the Smoky Mountains National Park. Throughout the hike, students learned about the history and ecosystem of the park.

MSA sophomores venture to Tremont Institute

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
April 28, 2025
Junior and Twisted Chickens member Brady Nagle eyes the opposing team during the SCA Dolphin Dodgeball Tournament on March 14, 2025. Nagle was part of the all-junior Twisted Chickens team that won the championship during the all-school spring assembly.

SCA hosts third annual Dolphin Dodgeball Tournament

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
April 3, 2025
Pictured from left to right: Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), Samantha LaRusso (Mary Mouser), Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan), Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña), Eli Moskowitz (Jacob Bertrand) and Demetri Alexopoulos (Gianni DeCenzo) await their overall score at the Sekkai Tekai, an international competition. In the series, Johnny Lawrence and his students joined Miyagi-Do to take down “Cobra Kai,” unaware that their real enemy is the Terry Silver-led Iron Dragons. Courtesy of Netflix.

“Cobra Kai” concludes after six sensational seasons

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
March 5, 2025
The last six-planet alignment took place on June 3, 2024. Each of the six planets could be seen at night, with some requiring a telescope to be viewed. (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic)

Planets align in annual occurrence

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
February 17, 2025
Lucius Meridius, played by Paul Mescal, prepares to fight. He covers his hands in sand in preparation to battle a rhinoceros. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

New “Gladiator II” movie solely entertains audience

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
December 9, 2024
Participants in the three-week Virginia Governor’s Summer Language Academies at Jefferson and Lee University from June 15, 2022, to July 6, 2022, following the annual World Cup match—a round-robin tournament between the German, French and Spanish academies. (Los alumnos demuestran su orgullo después de un partido de fútbol/La Academia Española/Virginia Governor's World Language Academies/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Colleges offer summer language opportunities for students

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
November 25, 2024
Fil Fest USA took place from Oct. 5 to Oct. 6, 2024 in Portsmouth, Va. It is an annual Filipino American Heritage Month event featuring concerts, activities and food vendors. Photo used with permission from Elbert Porteria.

Celebrating Filipino American History Month

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
October 17, 2024
The winner of the merchandise design contest, Gopi Konkepudi, created a logo that best represented the Class of 2027. Sponsored by the class, the contest was exclusively for sophomore students from Sept. 9 to Sept. 19, 2024. Photo used with permission from Raizel Dino.

Class of 2027 sponsors merchandise design contest

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
September 25, 2024
(Caesar (Planet of the Apes)/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0) Caesar, the protagonist of the first three Planet of the Apes movies, stares at a human civilization in “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” (2014). He brings his ape army to send a threat.

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” swings into mediocrity

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
June 4, 2024
College prospects and 2011 NFL Hall of Fame Inductees invited to the 2011 NFL Draft prepare for a photo. Their professional football career begins here. (2011 NFL Draft Class Invitees and 2011 NFL Hall of Famers/Marianne O’Leary/CC-BY-2.0)

NFL Draft welcomes highly-anticipated college prospects

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
April 26, 2024
From left to right: junior Nash Phillips and senior James Cummings attend the Texas vs. Tennessee game at Spectrum Center. It was played during the second round of the NCAA March Madness Tournament on March 23, 2024. Photo used with permission from James Cummings.

NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge allows participants to stay with the tournament

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
April 17, 2024
Michael Jordan on the 1992 USA Olympic Team. (MIchael Jordan/WikipediaCommons/CC BY-SA 4.0)

One man, one word

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
February 21, 2024
A picture features the field where Super Bowl 57 was played. Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35. Kansas City would then follow the next year with another Super Bowl victory in Super Bowl 58 over the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 beginning the Kansas City Chief dynasty. (NFL Super Bowl LVII & Golf Experiences/Your Golf Travel/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Chiefs dynasty arrives in fashion

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
February 15, 2024
This image consists of NBA teams organized into six different groups within the NBA In-Season Tournament. The groups were decided based on their previous records from the past 2022-2023 NBA season.

NBA passes the first annual in-season tournament

Jamison Gutierrez, News Editor
December 5, 2023
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