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The Declaration

The student news site of Colonia High School

The Declaration

2024-2025 Staff

Abdelrahman Marghany
Editor

Abdelrahman Marghany

Abdelrahman Marghany, also addressed as Abdel by his peers, is a 17 year old male student at Colonia High School. Marghany is beyond excited going into his senior year of high school. He looks forward...

Oreofeoluwa I. Gidado
Editor

Oreofeoluwa I. Gidado

Oreofeoluwa Isabel Gidado is a seventeen-year-old Colonia High School student. She participates in a variety of sports and hobbies. The sports she plays include basketball, track, and volleyball. Gidado i...

Cristian Alvarez
Editor

Cristian Alvarez

Cristian Alvarez is a senior at Colonia High School. He has a strong passion for soccer, he has aspirations of playing in college and has played all of his life. His favorite food is sushi, with shrimp temp...

Joe Okoroagu
Editor

Joe Okoroagu

Joe Okoroagu is a senior at Colonia High School. He is a passionate young journalist who began his writing journey circa the summer of 2021, driven by a love for reading, penning characters, world-buil...

Joseph Torres
Editor

Joseph Torres

Joseph Torres is currently a senior at Colonia High School and in his second year of journalism where he is not only and editor but is in charge of public relations. Torres is a New Jersey native and a pr...

Jayla Seepersaud
Reporter

Jayla Seepersaud

Jayla Seepersaud is a senior at Colonia High School. After graduating, she plans to pursue her dream of becoming a full-time journalist. Seepersaud enjoys watching 1980s classics, and horror films. Whe...

Sofia Perez
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Sofia Perez

Sofia Perez is currently a 17-year-old (soon-to-be 18 as of March) Senior at Colonia High School, living as the middle child of two siblings, an older brother and younger sister who are very close in ag...

Victoria Stepien
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Victoria Stepien

Victoria Stepien is a 17-year old, grade 12 student at Colonia High School. She grew up in New Jersey, and takes pride in her Polish heritage. She is bilingual and Polish is her first language. She spen...

Avani Nayak
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Avani Nayak

Avani Nayak is a 16-year-old who was born on October 15, 2008. She is on the high school's basketball team but also finds different sports interesting like flag football, and track. She finds interest i...

Aysia Collazo
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Aysia Collazo

Aysia Collazo is a senior at Colonia High School. She likes to draw, listen to music, and play video games. She likes playing Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox with her friends on the weekends. Every Saturday...

Kayden Gordon
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Kayden Gordon

Kayden Gordon is a Junior at Colonia High school who enjoys playing softball, hanging out with friends, and shopping. When she's not on the field, you can expect to find her enjoying a scoop of cookie ...

Isabella Restituyo
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Isabella Restituyo

Isabella Restituyo is currently a student in Colonia High school. Isabella is a junior and she is 17 years old. She loves spending time with her friends and family outside of school. She has two brothers...

Cory Pascarella
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Cory Pascarella

Cory Pascarella is an eighteen-year-old senior at Colonia High School. Pascarella has been a three year varsity starter on the baseball team, even though his sophomore season got cut short due to an injury....

Arianna Olivo
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Arianna Olivo

Arianna Olivo is a 15 year old freshman at Colonia High school. She enjoys writing and in her free time playing volleyball. She has 3 siblings and she is the oldest of all of them. She enjoys crime documentaries...

Jeffrey Mellito
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Jeffrey Mellito

Jeffrey Mellito is a 15 year old sophomore at Colonia High School. Mellito has been living in Colonia for the past 8 years, having moved not far from Colonia from Avenel. He attended Claremont Elementar...

Vedika Patel
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Vedika Patel

Vedika Patel, a senior at Colonia High School. She goes by the pronouns of she/her. She has a mother and one older brother. She grew up in Jersey City, where many of her favorite memories were spent. Some...

Emma Camarneiro
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Emma Camarneiro

Emma Camarneiro is currently a sophomore at Colonia High School who decided to take journalism due to her love for writing. Growing up she played multiple different sports, never being able to decide which...

Brayden Hammond
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Brayden Hammond

Brayden Hammond is 6’2 "and 200 lbs. His morning routine consists of: when he wakes up every day, he stretches for 20 minutes as soon as he gets up. Then he showers, eats breakfast and goes to school....

Rachel Tandean
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Rachel Tandean

Rachel Tandean is a sixteen-year-old junior at Colonia High School. She likes to play guitar and sing. She is bilingual, she speaks Bahasa Indonesia and English. Tandean has 2 siblings, 1 younger broth...

Ashley Mejia
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Ashley Mejia

Ashley Mejia is a 15-year-old who is a sophomore at Colonia High School . She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic then came to the United States at 7-years-old. Mejia is on the school softball...

Beshoy Wahapa
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Beshoy Wahapa

Beshoy Wahapa is a 16-year-old Junior from Colonia High School. He was born in Cairo, Egypt. Although being born out of the country, he moved to Colonia, NJ at a very young age. At 7 he started learning m...

Blythe Santana
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Blythe Santana

Blythe Santana is a 15-year-old girl who is a Colonia High School student. Regardless of being the youngest sibling of three children, she was born and raised in a Hispanic household in New Jersey with he...

Ava Patuto
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Ava Patuto

Ava Patuto is currently a seventeen-year-old senior at Colonia High School. She is part of the interact club within the school as well as the National Honor Society. She dances on a competition team outside...

Alisa Patel
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Alisa Patel

Alisa Patel, a 14-year-old freshman attending Colonia High School, is a passionate journalist, and reporter for the Colonia High School Declaration. Patel loves exploring stories that uncover the human ...

Jayden Ferret
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Jayden Ferret

Jayden Ferret is a 15-year-old sophomore at Colonia High School, He loves playing sports such as football and also wrestling. He’s been playing football since he was 11. Ferret was a varsity wrestler l...

Christian Herrera
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Christian Herrera

Christian Herrera is a freshman at Colonia High School. He has a lot of hobbies such as playing the electric and acoustic guitar, playing soccer, fishing and riding bikes, e-bikes, and dirt bikes with hi...

Belicia Guevara
Reporter

Belicia Guevara

Belicia Guevara is a freshman at Colonia High School. She is a 13-year-old writer for The Declaration. This is her first year writing for it but she has great hope of becoming a great writer and having a pas...

Amiya Leigh
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Amiya Leigh

 Amiya Leigh is a freshman in Colonia Highschool who is working towards the goal of being a lawyer. Her dream college is Oxford University. She loves to socialize and be around her friends. Leigh’s f...

Adrianna Pulecio
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Adrianna Pulecio

Adrianna Pulecio is a senior at Colonia High School who is inspired to be an esthetician and is leaning towards attending Rutgers University since it stays local to home. Pulecio is currently a reporter...

Sophia Montesinos
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Sophia Montesinos

Sophia Montesinos is a sophomore at Colonia High School. In her free time she enjoys playing volleyball, for both her school and club team. Montesinos is also an avid reader, her favorite genre or genre she...

Jayla Mineweather
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Jayla Mineweather

Jayla Mineweather is a 14-year-old freshman in Colonia High School. Mineweather’s birthday is on May 2nd. She is a taurus, and she was born in 2010. Mineweather loves to listen to music whenever she...

Mariella Spina
Reporter

Mariella Spina

Mariella Spina is a 16-year-old junior at Colonia High School. She enjoys playing softball, reading and seeing her friends. She has lived in Woodbridge Township all her life, previously attending Oak ...

Camilla Moran
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Camilla Moran

Camilla Moran is a 16-year-old Junior who attends Colonia High School. She has many interests such as reading romance novels, writing, baking, and painting. Moran is part of a few clubs and sports outsi...

Michael Esquivel
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Michael Esquivel

Michael Esquivel is a 16-year-old junior currently attending Colonia High School. He considers himself to be an active member of the school community, participating in the D.E.I. Committee, as well as th...

Emily Rodriguez
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Emily Rodriguez

Emily Rodriguez is a 17-year-old student at Colonia High School. She is currently in her senior year and is a captain of the CHS Dance Team. Her favorite subject is English since she just loves to write. ...

Emily Schmidt
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Emily Schmidt

Emily Schmidt is currently a senior in Colonia High School who’s on the varsity softball & cheer team. Emily has been doing cheer and softball for over 10 years, but this is the first year she’s ...

Alexa Beck
Reporter

Alexa Beck

Alexa Beck is a 16-year-old Junior at Colonia High School. She loves to read, especially her favorite authors Freida McFadden and Lynn Painter. She is an avid reader; she has read 67 books this year. Sh...

Laila Ribeiro
Reporter

Laila Ribeiro

Laila Ribeiro is a 16-year-old junior at Colonia High School. She has lived in Woodbridge Township since she was 5-years-old, attending Oak Ridge Heights #21 and Colonia Middle School. She is a first-g...

Dylan Miller
Editor-in-Chief

Dylan Miller

Dylan Miller is currently a Senior at Colonia High School. He enjoys participating in sports, earning varsity letters in cross country, winter track and spring track. In addition to participating in sp...

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