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During the school day, if you get caught playing bubble shooter your teacher tells you to close out of it and find something productive to do. Business Teacher Brenda Diekman came up with an idea for students to play it without any punishment. Every Wednesday during AAA her room, C-209, turns into a bubble target range. “I will continue to have bubble shooter on Wednesday,” said Diekman, “if more kids come and sign up then…
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The Bison Baseball team started off the season with a tough loss against Cambridge-Isanti. Junior Jason Senger started pitching for the Bison. The Bluejackets were the first to strike in the 4th inning scoring two. The Bison answered back scoring one. In the 6th inning the Bison scored and tied the game 2-2. Neither team scored in the 7th inning which put the game into extra innings. Senger started the 8th inning and gave up…
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The Bison Softball team won their season and home opener 9-5 against conference opponent Cambridge-Isanti on Tuesday night. Last season the Bison and the Bluejackets shared the Mississippi 8 Conference title both with a 14-2 conference record. “It felt really good to beat them by that much especially since they were a big competitor last year. They had also played 2 games before so it felt good to win our first game,” said Junior Haley Prim. It…
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The movies would lead us to believe that at some point a pair of opposite gender friends will have a revelation and realize they are in love. Then the movie ends and they presumably live happily ever after. I mean, we don’t write songs about a man and a woman being great friends their whole lives. But this is cinema and song, so how do this play out in real life? Story continues after the…
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Carlton Urdahl’s eyes light up when a student finally makes a breakthrough in his calculus class. Whether he’s jumping with joy or slapping his Expo marker into his hand, Urdahl has spent 49 years of his life teaching kids how to solve quadratic equations and inequalities. Although he could have retired years ago, Urdahl returns each year for the love of what he does and the people that surround him on a daily basis. “I…
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Looking around the school on Friday, March 23rd one might notice all the kids wearing the same bright teal shirt that says “overcome hunger with love” on the back. Throughout Buffalo Middle School and High School, over 100 students went for 30 hours without food to raise hunger awareness. St. John’s Lutheran Church hosted The 30 Hour Famine, a program run through World Vision. Around 4:30 p.m. over 150 kids piled into the church. Students signed…
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The temperature has been over 70, and the snow is melted. You can tell it’s Track & Field season. At Buffalo High School, things are a little different when it comes to Track season. The Boys team is looking for its 9th straight Conference title and seems very confident about getting it. “We are not as good as we were last year,” commented Senior captain Blake Schmidt. “We lost a centerpiece of the program when…
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Staying in shape during the off season of a sport is important, but it can be difficult to do. There are many distractions that come along with free time. Being determined is an essential trait for an athlete and can determine being good from being great. “In the off season for football I am in track, so I stay in good shape and it keeps my agility and speed at a good level,” said Junior Mitchell Valli. “I also…
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Junior Michael Swearingen saw The Hunger Games twice in the first 12 hours after it came out. He went to see it with friends at midnight on Thursday, the night it opened, and then his CIS Literature class went to see it the next morning during school. He arrived home from the movie at 3:30 a.m. on Friday and had to wake up for school and his second viewing at 6 a.m.. “I woke up…
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Everyone has something they could never give up or throw away. Sometimes, it’s a baby blanket from childhood, other times its something that has no meaning to anyone else. Usually they hold a great memory or bring joy. Junior Abigail Nowak says, “my relationship with God,” is something she couldn’t live without, “because it’s where i find my purpose in life from and were i draw my strength and joy for life from.” For sophomore Breanna Heuton it’s her…
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