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The Buffalo One Act team received a Six Star Performance at the Conference meet at Cambridge-Isanti on Saturday. This ranking was the highest of any school at the meet. Mallory Nelson and Julie Bothum both received All-Conference honors, and D.J.  McMoil and Michael Patchen received All- Conference Honorable Mention. Rebekah Herdklotz was awarded with All-Conference Tech Team. “Buffalo does quite well, we take it quite seriously,” said Patchen. “We send messages through our characters, but don’t…

40 of Buffalo High school’s FFA members along with new Agriculture Teacher Jim Kocherer will be attending a Rodeo on the fourth of February at the Xcel Energy Center. “Were going there to have fun,” Kocherer said. Mr. Kocherer, along with 60-75 FFA members, do a number of different activities that  involve agriculture, aka. animals whether it be judging, showing, competitions, crops, fundraising a wide variety of a lot of different things that are fun…

The video multi media productions teacher, Troy Hanson,  is the director of bison bitz every friday on channel 55. School activities and many other segments about the kids in our school are on the show. The show’s call Bison Bitz, it has ben set up for 12 years now ever since the idea from Troy Hanson. Hanson got the schools advisory to agree with him to have a school show, but over the years it has progressed and changed…

The Arts Magnet committee is putting on an Open Mic Night next Thursday (January 20, 2011) from 2:30pm- 4:30pm in the Black Box (Room A218). No admission fee, no sign up sheets, no audtions, and everyone is invited, to watch and/or preform. Anyone can have the floor; musicians, poets, dancers, DJ’s, actors, storytellers and anything in the middle. “It’s a chance for all preformers to come together, preform and have fun!” says Reese Beggs, President…

Kocherer’s third block class dissected a pig, two sheep, and a rabbit. This took place in the back shop behind Kocherer’s regular classroom on January 5th 2011. Kocherer had to teach his class where things are in animals, what body part does what, how to tell if something wasn’t working right, and if the animal was well taken care of. When dissecting the pig they found out she was pregnant. What happened to her is…

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Science teacher Kip Wold has given up old-fashioned overheads in favor of PowerPoints. He started converting overhead slides into PowerPoints at the beginning of the second term and is still going strong.  Wold says his students are happy about the switch. “Everyone’s getting all this fancy equipment,” Wold said. “I figured it’s about time for me to get into the third millennium.” Every year teachers have some sort of aspiration.  Technology just so happens to…

Vietnam veteran Gary Gullickson will be visiting Buffalo High School on Thursday, January 13 in the PAC for the 10th consecutive year to speak about his gruesome experiences in the Vietnam war. Every year Gullickson comes to visit the current social studies classes as a whole to tell us all of his experiences with flying planes, seeing friends killed right before him and what it was like to feel like your life was just about…

Tthe New Wilderness Project took their first field trip in three months On January 7; an all day field trip to Discovery Elementary School. The group paired with students from Roger High School and spent the day reading poems and participating in ice breaking activities. The New Wilderness Project is about learning how to communicate with other people and understand how they are feeling and where those feelings come from.  The students learn how to deal…

The 33 members of Buffalo’s winter Drumline practiced eight hours a day, four days straight over winter break to get ready for their season. The Herd Drumline is instructed by TJ Larum and includes 30 high school students and 3 eighth graders. The camp was held at the BAC at Buffalo High School over winter break. The team got just a one hour break for eating each day. The Herd Drumline has seven total shows…