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Goodwill is a store that carries everything from hats to shoes (head to toe) for prices that are generally lower than other competing stores.  For this reason, it attracts many High School students. Goodwill carries name brand items that aren’t as expensive as it would be at the original seller’s store according to Junior Eddie Clifton. “I bought a Nike zip up sweatshirt at Goodwill for only $5,” says Clifton. “If I were to buy…

Every year the Salvation Army places red kettles outside of popular stores to raise money for the less fortunate during the holiday season. In Buffalo there are kettles outside of Walgreens, Coborns, Walmart, Cub, and Target. Shoppers are encouraged to quickly stop and put some loose change into the kettles. In a survey of 50 BHS students, 72 percent said that they will donate to the kettle every once in awhile. Sixteen percent said they…

Three Buffalo High School teachers have proposed an idea to offer hybrid and online classes for next year, as an alternative learning experience for some of the classes that they teach. Brenda Deikman, Daryl Boeckers, and Jason Karn are hoping the proposal passes, so students have an option of doing things more independently instead of being in the classroom five days a week. Right now this is just a proposal that still needs to be…

With four main sets of stairs here, one by each grade level, and only eight minute passing periods, the stairs have been fallen on many different times, and on many different occasions. Falling down the stairs has become part of the culture here at our school It’s even happened to our new coming Freshman already, like Anna Demgen, who has fallen down the stairs at least twice already. There are many different ways falling up…

The first snowfall occurring on Saturday, November 19, brought slippery roads and dangerous conditions for all drivers. Especially young inexperienced ones. “I was waiting for my friend [Sophomore] Jesse Sullivan to get to my house Sunday night when my power went out,” said Sophomore Wilson Anderle. “When I looked out my window, there was Jesse’s truck in the ditch wrapped around a power pole about 40 yards down the road.” Some incidents involved more than…

What is the perfect cure for getting rid of the hiccups? At BHS there seems to be a common answer to that question. In a survey of 50 BHS students last week, 28 percent said that they simply hold their breath to free themselves from the hiccups. Drinking water was the second most popular cure by getting 22 percent of the votes. Other answers included drinking a glass of water upside down, scaring them away,…

If you ask almost any BHS student about substitute teachers, chances are you will hear a lot about Scott Thayer “Thayer is by far my favorite teacher,” said Junior Drake Wholenhouse “I love the relaxed attitude he’s always got, not to mention his stories.” Thayer went to college at North Dakota State University on a basketball scholarship. He also went on to earn five teaching majors in English, science, chemistry, biology, and physical education. After…

On the night of Friday, November 4, Diversity Studies teacher Todd Manninen took ten of his Diversity Studies students on a  field trip down to the Mid-Town Global Market, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The point of taking a trip with some his students to Mid-Town was so that they could smell, hear, and taste diversity by expeirencing all the different cultures close to home. “It’s one thing to learn about a different culture by reading…

French teacher Jason Swanson and the Future Educator’s group will be hosting a book drive this holiday season through a local organization called “Read to Feed the Mind.” It will begin Monday November 28 and will be finished Friday December 16. Students can drop off gently used books in the media center or office. These books will be given to families in need this holiday season. “If students are tracked on learning capabilities it is…

“If I could paint the rock I would actually paint a picture of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson” said Sophomore Hunter Fonkert. Other students like Fonkert also have ideas for the rock. “I think the rock is cool,” said Freshman Maverick Flesher. “If I painted it I would paint it yellow and write ‘Class of 2015’ on it.” Stories have also been passed on about the rock, some which aren’t even true. “I’ve heard [The Rock]…