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The Green Team, a group of students and teachers dedicated to creating a better environment, began this year in hopes of bringing awareness to students about the importance of recycling and conserving energy. The Green Team is run by five staff members, including Charley Keifenheim, Brigitta Berquist, Katie Kunz, Rebecca Karna, and Daniel Schneider. “That specific group of teachers wanted a group at the high school that advocated for the three R’s – reuse, recycle,…

Saturday, January 30, the One Act play placed third place during Sections, one spot short of going to the State competition. Delano took first while Rockford followed in at second. The One Act team was recognized in their conference as a strong team and received a star for their hard work. Their public performance took place February 1 in the PAC (Preforming Arts Center). “We had a solid performance and worked together as a team…

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Last week and this week, Buffalo High School and GMSA are hosting a fundraiser to help disaster victims in Haiti. GMSA members organized the selling of colored hair extensions throughout last week – students Emily Anderson and Sarah Oliver collected the donations and put the extensions into the hair. Over 150 people in the building showed their support by purchasing these extensions; If you donated five dollars, you got one extension, or a ten dollar…

High school sports fill up the week among the days of the high school students. Typically many students gather to the gyms, hockey areas, or even gymnastics gymnasiums to support there fellow classmates and friends, whereas some of us are not. You will always hear the highlights on the sports the following morning but Activities Director Tom Baumann, if you weren’t present at those certain festivity you can’t preview those moments in your head. But…

Buffalo Bison Girls’ Gymnastics team competed against the St. Micheal Knights winning with overall score 12. With Sophomore Paige Habisch competing Varsity all- around and Junior Megan Durst competing combination all around. Sophomore Nadja Vragovic is out with an injury due to a strained hip flexer at the Gustavus Invitational last Saturday during her floor routine with the team had taken 4th in overall. “Every year when we go to Gustavus somebody always ends up…

Social Studies Teacher Laurie Raymond leads the ten members of the Buffalo High School Varsity Mock Trial team out of the courtroom. It is January 14, 2010, and they have just beaten Princeton’s Mock Trial team, winning the Conference Tournament. “Mrs. Raymond is so dedicated to our team,” reveals Junior Sam Kemp, a first year lawyer on the Varsity Defense. “She provides a lot of insight to help us with our material.” Mock trial is quite literally,…

The first day of school next year, there will be 425 new freshman coming into Buffalo High school. The first day of high school is a turning point in a lot of kid’s life’s. Teachers and administrators are excited for this day every year. Registration for classes for freshman was last Tuesday. “Parent nights like registration night, are good first steps for freshman, it’s exciting, a new opportunity for kid’s coming in high school,” said…

Boys Varsity Hockey: The boys varsity hockey team started out their season with extremely intense competition. Resulting in several consecutive losses for their team. However, recently they have begun to do extremely well in their conference, with wins over M.A.M.L. ( Monticello Annandale Maple Lake) and St. Michael-Albertville, they are 2-0 in conference. Sophomore goalie Blake Schmidt was recently mentioned in the Star Tribune for his success in these games, where he had a shut-…