Spotlight
Shining a spotlight on the Kind, Proud, Driven Leaders that make Buffalo High School stand out.
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On October 28, Buffalo High School started testing out new flexible seating options for potential use in resource areas. The furniture is on loan from the company SteelCase so that students and staff can try it out and decide which pieces to purchase. Many of the chairs and tables are extremely unique compared to existing furniture, and a lot of them were better than other options the school has previously offered. Here are some of…
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Many students at Buffalo High School recognize the familiar face of our school’s resource officer, Chris Coats. However, long before he found his place in the front offices of BHS, he worked in very different settings, holding jobs within both a large corporation and the US military. There has been a lot of variability in Coats’ career as he has worked for Taco Bell and in construction during high school. He went into the military…
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The senior powderpuff team got the win Sunday night at Bentfield against the junior team in the championship game. 0.Both teams competed until the end but the juniors fell short by a few touchdowns. At 7 p,m under the lights, the two junior teams faced off with the two senior teams doing the same the next field over. Earlier in the night, the K-9 Unit took the win 14-7 against the 6 Sendys, while the…
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Deep in Buffalo, amid cornfields and suburbs, high schoolers mill around from class to class. Each holds their own private thoughts, stories, and opinions. The Herdcast—made by friends Aiklie Gray ‘25, Wyatt Droen ‘25, and Vivian Grambart ‘25—brings student voices to light through their unique, student-centric episodes and topics. In every episode of the Herdcast, listeners are met by two main voices: hosts Gray and Grambart. Gray was the first to suggest creating the Herdcast.…
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Toward the end of the 2022-2023 school year, band and orchestra director Michael Knutson made an announcement that rocked the Buffalo High School Music Department. Many tears were shed one afternoon as the concert ensembles learned that Knutson would be leaving at the end of the year to test his new lesson book for beginning bands at Buffalo Community Middle School. A week later, choir director Zack Carlson-Giving announced to a tearful choir room that…
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Junior Laryssa Laho’s journey into the German language and culture began when she was in fourth grade. “My sister started taking German six years ago,” Laho explained. “She would come home and say these little phrases that I started to pick up on. . . I wanted to learn more German, [because] I already liked it.” This made her decision on what language to pursue a simple one. Another easy decision for her to make…
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Jazz bands, Strings, BHS, and Treble singers clash as one for a night of Music and Masquerade in the Performing Arts Center on the night of March 23rd. Bring your bidding skills because the doors open at 6:30 pm for a silent auction. The Night Out for Music concert has historically been the biggest music department fundraiser. Last year, they raised over $15,000. They do not reach this by at-the-door ticket sales, but by free-will…
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This Friday and Saturday, February 16th and 17th, six band students and five choir students from Buffalo High School will perform in the All-State Concerts at Orchestra Hall. The choir concert will be on the 16th, and the band concert on the 17th. Singers Harrison Klaphake ’24, James Nelson ’24, Ellie Cassady ’25, Hope Schmitz ’24, and Xander Sabinash ’24; Flautists Malika Gallus ’24, Maggie Bertsch ’25, and Kiera Mcgorry ’25, along with clarinetists Lexi…
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Advisory. The “class” that all students at Buffalo High School dread. Advisory, called ‘PRIME TIME’ in middle school, is intended to bring students together through building connections and stronger, healthier relationships with their peers. At the start of your high school journey you get assigned an Advisory, with the same teacher/advisor and peers for all four years of high school. As an incoming 9th grader you imagine Advisory being a “safe space” or “another home,”…
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The sound of the last piece of wood getting cut on the table saw, the banging metal sound coming from the sheet metal shop, the buzz of the ark in the welding shop as it fuses two pieces of steel together. These are just a few of the many sounds you hear in the shop hallway at BHS, lined with a display case with fish in a pond, a cardboard conveyor belt, and all the way…