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The Buffalo Varsity Softball team adds two more wins to their record making them now 3-0. They hosted and defeated Grand Rapids on Saturday 9-3, and hosted conference opponent Rogers winning 4-0. Junior Bailey Braatz has pitched in all three of the wins. “It’s like a reassuring feeling winning our first three games. It boosts our confidence and makes us excited to keep on playing and winning. It also helps our team mesh a little more and makes…
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The Bison Softball team won their season and home opener 9-5 against conference opponent Cambridge-Isanti on Tuesday night. Last season the Bison and the Bluejackets shared the Mississippi 8 Conference title both with a 14-2 conference record. “It felt really good to beat them by that much especially since they were a big competitor last year. They had also played 2 games before so it felt good to win our first game,” said Junior Haley Prim. It…
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Looking around the school on Friday, March 23rd one might notice all the kids wearing the same bright teal shirt that says “overcome hunger with love” on the back. Throughout Buffalo Middle School and High School, over 100 students went for 30 hours without food to raise hunger awareness. St. John’s Lutheran Church hosted The 30 Hour Famine, a program run through World Vision. Around 4:30 p.m. over 150 kids piled into the church. Students signed…
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Junior Michael Swearingen saw The Hunger Games twice in the first 12 hours after it came out. He went to see it with friends at midnight on Thursday, the night it opened, and then his CIS Literature class went to see it the next morning during school. He arrived home from the movie at 3:30 a.m. on Friday and had to wake up for school and his second viewing at 6 a.m.. “I woke up…
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Preparing for the ACT can be a stressful thing. It’s the test that can determine what a college sees in you. A single point in your score can change the outcome of being accepted or rejected. For many people studying for the ACT is a task that never seems to end. The test itself is four hours long and covers what students learned from Sophomore year. “When I started thinking about sitting down and taking…
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Difference in lunch hours is affecting students at Buffalo High School. For some, it affects their entire eating schedule for the rest of the day. While most students have B or C lunch, the few that are placed in A or D lunch have a struggle with the rest of their day. “I have had A-Lunch all year so for me, at first, it was a struggle but now since it’s already third term I’ve…
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The rock, which was painted green in remembrance of Sophomore Sam Lewandoski, who died on January 3, 2012, was painted over white with the saying “This is not the Rock” for the Clue Game this year. And some students are not happy with it. The Clue Game returned to BHS for its third year, and this time the focus of the game revolves around The Rock being stolen. What was merely supposed to be a minor joke…
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The Social Problems took a field trip to tour Target Field on March 15 to learn how the stadium was built to be the most Eco-friendly in America. The grass was bright green which is unusual for Minnesota in middle March. The grass was imported from Colorado. Underneath the grass they have various types of dirt layered. When it rains the soil will absorb the water and the field can stay dry enough to play. The field…
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Students in English teacher Dave Robinson‘s Enriched English 10 class had a Skype session with English professor Stanley Lombardo on Monday. The class recently finished Homer’s Odyssey and Lombardo translated the version they read. Robinson chose this translation of the Odyssey a few years ago and contacted him joining LinkedIn. “Basically, I called him,” said Robinson. “I knew his name and I saw his name pop in for reviews. The class had questions that I…
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Neil Schlagel, the new JAG teacher, has been satisfying appetites for years. As the former co-owner of a restaurant, he is now stepping into a role full of people hungry for knowledge. Schlagel came from the business scene into the classroom. A graduate from North Dakota State University, and former co-owner of the Blue Note Bar & Ballroom in Winsted, Minnesota, he now teaches students, many of whom are eager to learn from him. JAG…
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