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With only 8 school days left until the end of the quarter, students are anxiously awaiting for spring break.  ” What I’m looking for most about spring break is chilling on the beach in Corpus Christie, Texas and spending time with my family,” said Junior.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Photo By:Rachael Etter Students usually travel more on Spring break then they do on winter break. Winter break is usually spent at home and visit with family members around home. “I’m going to Palm Springs,…

The Buffalo Community Book Read is coming up on April 5 in the Performing Arts Center. Anybody in the community is welcome to participate. The chosen book for this year is The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Minnesota author Kao Kalia Yang. It is a Hmong family memoir involving families searching for a place to call their home. Hmong families moved from Laos to refugee camps in Thailand and then made their way to…

Basketball has been a passion of Math teacher Stacy Eggers for over a decade. For the first time, she has taken a season off of coaching girls basketball to have her daughter, Brianna Theresa. “I totally miss coaching,” said Eggers, “It’s really hard, like, I knew I was going to kind of miss it because I really love coaching. This is my first season off since I was 10. I’ve been playing or coaching basketball…

`I am from a womb that was heavily polluted. I am the terminology used as a crack baby. I am from a household where one woman takes care of 19 kids. I am from a house with a majority of females. I am from a family that is curious of who our parents are. I am from a city based on choice and bravery. I am from a city filled with gangs. I am from…

Many people walk through the hallways of Buffalo High School and never receive an award. Others receive more awards than what we can count on our hands and toes. Out of those awards there is one award that quite possibly may be the most prestigous at Buffalo High School. That is the hall of fame award. Most students may not even know what the “Hall of Fame Award” is. All they see is the 48…

At the school assembly on Monday, September 14th, the teachers and administrators worked to control the chaos as students made their way to their new seating sections in the gym, assigned by grade. Students could be seen dancing and singing along to “Kokomo”, by the Beach Boys, as it played throughout the speakers in the gym. With the whole school in attendance, they awaited the announcement of the 2009-2010 Mixing Spoons and Homecoming King and…

It is the standard attire for the graduating student: the cap and gown. The origin of graduations are thought to be in churches in the 12th century, when Universities in Europe first began to appear. The reason robes and gowns were the choice of apparel was to keep warm in church, where heating wasn’t common or practical. In 1321, the gown was established as the standard form of dress for graduation because excessive apparel was…

Its has been a tradition for years at Buffalo, all farmers or basically anyone that owns a tracker, or a four wheeler anything that’s not a car but able to drive to school. they take up at least one third of the parking lot. This year they seem to be the high tech and a whole lot bigger then the ones the last year.  “I love it, I’m a hick. Its a Tradition I don’t think…