About

Welcome to the online newspaper for Citrus High School, located in Inverness, FL.

The journalism staff at Citrus is comprised of 24 students, led by first-year adviser Colleen Bennett.

The Web site was launched March 4, 2009 in an effort to give journalists at our school the opportunity to focus on the future of news: online journalism. With standard newspapers increasingly disappearing, it became apparent that the journalism department at Citrus High had to forge ahead into this developing medium in order to stay in line with current trends.

Citrus High School is the first school in the county to venture into the world of online journalism. In addition, The Whirlwind is one of the few high school online newspapers in the country.

Special thanks goes to technology specialist Jerry Swiatek for helping maintain this site.

We welcome comments and suggestions from the community in improving our publication. We can be reached at citrus.whirlwind@gmail.com.

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