The General is the student newspaper of Herkimer County Community College.
Our goal is to build a community that provides fact-based, unbiased, and reliable news for campus community. The General features continuous, student-driven campus coverage during fall and spring semesters.
Join the Team
Are you a Herkimer College student interested in serving in a staff position or contributing a story? Please contact Advising Editor Blake Pitcher at [email protected].
SPRING 2025 STAFF
Christos Gasparinatos is a Communication & Media major at Herkimer College.
Sidney Gillogly is a first-year student at Herkimer College majoring in Humanities and taking media-geared classes, while participating in many club activities and playing soccer.
Sam Haar is a student studying for a degree in General Studies at Herkimer County Community College. His passions are filmmaking and screenwriting, and he is planning to attend Ithaca College for a filmmaking degree after graduating from Herkimer.
James Llewellyn is a student at Herkimer Community College majoring in General Studies.
Juana Del Pilar Lopez-Hand is a Herkimer County Community College student who formerly attended Canajoharie High School. She is a freshman majoring in Communication & Media, with hopes of becoming a humanitarian and teaching children how to read in foreign countries. She enjoys travel, dance, horseback riding and writing poetry.
Sean Morris is a Communication & Media major at Herkimer. Morris loves to travel and to document things that happen throughout his journey through life. He enjoys taking in new experiences and new places in the world as well as sharing his love for things that have helped him along the way.
Hailey Ramos is a first-year student at Herkimer College, majoring in Communication & Media. She can be seen partaking in fashion, writing, and with her co-hosts in the Radio-TV club podcast, “Tomfoolery Tuesdays.”
Aiden Smith is a student at Herkimer County Community College.
Kayla Stevens is a student at Herkimer County Community College and an employee at Price Chopper in Little Falls. She switched her major in the fall semester of 2023 from science to humanities. She wants to pursue a career in writing when she graduates.
MEDIA PRODUCER
Lyla Williams is a Communication & Media major at HCCC. She is regularly involved in Fashion Club and has previously been involved with Theater Club and other on-campus media activities.
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