Spotlight
Shining a spotlight on the Kind, Proud, Driven Leaders that make Buffalo High School stand out.
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This time of year most seniors are deciding what is going to come next for them after they graduate high school. For one of these Buffalo High School seniors, Joe Hanson, the plan is a new business venture in a coffee business. Joe is an individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Individuals with ASD, like everyone else, have strengths and weaknesses. A person with ASD can be very high functioning, which means that most people…
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People holding hands, kissing, giving hugs and laughing. Eating chocolates, carrying flowers and teddy bears. It’s that one day of the year dedicated to that special person you love. The one day guys don’t get crap from their friends for showing their girl how much they love them… If they remember. According to squidoo.com, 53% of women would dump their boyfriend if they did not get them anything. Flowers are the top choice for presents…
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Freshman Carl Sones, at 14 years-old, is the lead vocalist and guitarist in the bluegrass band Barton’s Hallow. The the group originated while Sones was at a bluegrass festival when an old friend, Kylie Ellingson, asked if he wanted to join a band. The band consists of six musicians that have been together since June of 2011. Sones has been exposed to music throughout his life and knew it was for him the first time he saw…
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Long term Substitute James Schultz is teaching Science Teacher Greg Hygrell’s Natural Resources and Biology classes while Hygrell takes time off. Schultz thought at Osseo High School for 32 years and Japan for one before retiring this September. He also coached Nordic skiing as well as one of his favorite sports, Girls and Boys Soccer. “I started the soccer team in Stillwater the first Varsity team,” he said. “I was the one who started that…
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Today, almost every computer comes with a webcam and one of the biggest uses for it is Skype. Skype is a video chatting service, which originated in Sweden, allows people to chat face to face via computer. Skype has allowed soldiers to talk to families overseas, let a bed-ridden mother watch her daughter get married, and allows grandparents to read bedtime stories to their grandchildren, but what does it do for Buffalo High School? In…
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The classrooms at BHS are all decorated differently. There are things on the windows, the walls, the doors, and even hanging from the ceiling. In English Teacher Tracy Hagstrom-Durant’s room, the moment students walk in they are surrounded by toy clowns that she has collected. She has some of them on a large shelf just inside the door. Other clowns are on strings hanging from the ceiling. “A lot of people think that the clowns…
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Students at Buffalo High School have had the privilege to play many helpful roles in their school, such as sports, teacher assistants, and other activities to feel like a team. This year, students have the opportunity to mentor their peers. Some are taking this chance to help classmates with disabilities. The opportunity began when teachers and students were asked to take a survey at the end of last year. “When the question was asked ‘Do you…
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Factors for teenagers losing sleep are broad, including caffeine, after school activities and working after school. As influencing as these are to a teenager’s sleep, most of the reasons they might stay up are technological. Students playing video games, listening to music and watching T.V. before bed can severely hold back the sleep process. Video games especially, which according to ScienceDaily.com, can put players into an especially focused zone and keep them awake for longer.…
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Science teacher Kip Wold has been recognized as January’s “Teacher Of the Month” at Buffalo High School. Wold has received this honor multiple times in his thirty-five years of teaching. He has taught everything from environmental science to general chemistry. Wold said he was honored but humbled by the attention. “I don’t like the notoriety. I don’t want people to notice,” said Wold. “It’s kind of embarrassing.” With a double major in Junior High Science…
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Max Karels was taking a shower at Senior Blake Schmidt’s house when he noticed a mysterious looking bulge on his left testicle, so he talked to Schmidt about it afterwards and was convinced into visiting a hospital. Karels, a senior at Hutchinson High School and a former BHS student, was diagnosed with testicular cancer on November 7. “I was in the shower and I felt it and I thought ‘hmm… I should go to the…