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The Buffalo Hanover Montrose school district costs $306,000 to run for just one day. All together, the district has a yearly $53.2 million budget, but that doesn’t just sit and not get used. It goes towards everything that makes a school run properly each day. For instance 78% of that goes towards the teachers’ salaries. In the winter, it’s about $45,000 alone to plow the parking lots. In the summer, it’s about that much to…
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Walking down to wood shop you hear the stories about this graffiti on the wall. Entering Konsela’s room there it is the graffiti on the wall courtesy of Senior Joe Neumann. “He wanted me to TA for his class,” said Neumann. “I did a lot of stuff but he asked me to paint the wood shop.” Joe had never used spray paint to do graffiti before so this was his first project to do something with his talent.…
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The Boy’s Basketball team won the Varsity game against St. Cloud Tech. The team was down 23-18 at halftime, but turned it around in the second half to take a three point lead. With 11 seconds to go in the game, St. Cloud Tech. called a timeout, passed the ball in, shot a three pointer to try to go into overtime but missed in the final seconds of the game. Buffalo had won the game…
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A good teacher is able to prepare their students for the upcoming tests. What does it take to make a great teacher? Many students at Buffalo High School have teachers or staff members that they really enjoy being around. “[Physical Education Teacher] Jason Karn is a teacher I really look up to,” says Junior Sam Ortmann. “He always does what needs to be done and he always leads by example.” Others like a certain teacher because…
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Shorter and shorter, inch by inch, skirts in the school are getting shorter. Fifteen out of 15 teachers surveyed agreed skirts are getting shorter. The question is how short is too short? “I think you should be able to walk up the stairs without me seeing your underwear,” said English Teacher Tracy Hagstrom Durant. Some choose to go with the more respectful route and prefer longer skirts. Taking a secondary approach to the typical high…
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People have many ideas about when to go shopping for the holidays. Some think that it is better if you go earlier to beat the rush and get things before they are sold out. Others think it is better to wait until things might go on sale, but risk the chance of standing in line. “I usually start at least one month before Christmas but I still end up shopping a couple days before the…
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Lots of people forget their childhood memories as they grow older, but some memories seem to last, even into adulthood. “My favorite memory from my childhood was going hunting with my brother, and my moms boyfriend,” said Junior Callie Anderson. One time my brother and I crashed our four wheeler, and we fell out.” “I think my favorite childhood memory would be from third grade, when I went to Disney World,” said Sophomore Matt Laidlaw.…
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“Worst day of my life,” said Sophomore Ryan Bunting. Everybody has a story about how they discovered Santa Claus wasn’t real, some more tragic than others. “I was in fifth grade,” said Junior Alyssa Baldwin. “I was sitting at the lunch table when my friend, [Junior] Cleo [Lammers], told me that her mom told her that Santa wasn’t real. I was so sad I started crying.” “When me and my brother pulled an all nighter,” said Sophomore…
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There was a two-hour delay issued for Buffalo as about nine inches of snow fell on Sunday, December 9. The driving conditions were not good and people were finding themselves getting stuck in driveways and ditches. The days that followed brought even more ice and snow. Around the high school there are a lot of new drivers and this will be the first real snowfall that they’ve had to deal with. Some students ended up…
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Christmas is supposed to be a jolly time of the year where stress and worry are non-existent. When the holidays come around and Christmas is nearing, all of the plans you have seem to mash together and create a stressful environment for everyone. People tend to spend the most money around this time even though we’re in a bad economic situation. Parents are trying to make a it a perfect time of the year for their…
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