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With the end of the school year coming up students are planning on what to do on the last day of school. Students traditions usually include driving tractors to school and grilling in the morning. We asked students what their plans are for this year. “I will drive my golf cart if it is fixed,” said Senior Josh Robinson. “I’m going to drive a corvette,” said Senior Willie Pecarina. “I’m gonna drive my tractor…
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Freedom of religion, it is a right that is given to us by the constitution. There for we have a choice to choose what religion we want to believe in. Or to not believe in any at all. A few weeks ago on the 12th of May, BHS seniors who had received the presidential award were invited to an academic luncheon with the Buffalo Chamber of Combers. Students were expecting the lunch in to take…
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You know how in the morning when we get to school and ¾ of the school walks around like zombies? Well, according to board member Pam Miller it’s been brought up a few times considering having secondary school start later than 7:45am. Some schools around us start later than we do. Which include, Maple Lake, Annandale, and Monticello. They do this because studies have shown that staggering start times may not be such a bad idea…
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Junior Collin Svoboda became a local hero last week on May 13, after saving an elderly woman’s life. The accident occurred on the intersection of 40th Street NE and Edmonson Ave NE when Svoboda was preparing to merge onto Edmonson Avenue behind a semi-truck. However another car was closely following the semi which Svoboda was unaware of. In reaction to Collin pulling out in front of her; she took evasive action to avoid collision, plummeting…
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The count down banner was put up Thursday, May 22nd. As students entered the building they noticed that the banner had Tangled character, Pascal and the flowers from the movie on the number. You are able to see slightly through the page and are able to notice the slight As Senior Courtney Elsenpeter entered the building she was taken by surprise. Courtney said,” I didn’t think it was going to be here already. I thought it…
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Recently around the Buffalo area, schools have begun doing citywide “Nerf Wars”. The Nerf war started as a group of students who want to have a group of friends go head to head at a nerf war. A school will get a group of high school students who want to participate and then split off into teams. On May 19th, Senior Kylee Zumach created a Twitter page (@Buffalo_Nerf), starting the Buffalo Nerf War. All…
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For seniors a lot has happened in their lives. From first kiss to graduating. Not everything in our senior lives has been so ‘flowerly’. There are also first accidents/car crashes. Jordan Bjorklund “Me and my boyfriend were at the intersection by Target [in Buffalo] we had a green light and the car on the oncoming traffic looked far away but he wasn’t. Both of us tried to stop but it was too icy out so…
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These stories come from students attending BHS. The quotes will be anonymous for the comfort of the students. “My most embarrassing moment was mistaking a dude for my mom” “I was walking with my lunch tray of spaghetti in 5th grade at Montrose Elementary and I slipped and fell and the food literally flew in the air in slow motion and then landed all over me and I sat on the floor and cried.” “I…
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It’s close to the end of school and there are finals and projects due. Seniors especially getting ready for college. With all these things to do and get done, prepare for in these last two weeks we can assume our stress levels have risen, but what if we can make our stress, our stress buddy? Here’s how: Kelly McGonigal a health psychologist did a Ted Talk last year in June of 2013 about this very…
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The Drive Project is a new independent study as of last year started by English Teacher, Vicki Cary. “The Drive project is an independent study in which students get to choose something that they are interested in and further explore and learn about it,” explained Cary. “My goal for it is to learn individually as well as collaboratively.” There are three blocks that do it, consisting of only seniors. First block consists of: Brianna Porter,…
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