Student Counselor Gloria Rose has recently confirmed her retirement at Buffalo High School after impacting students for 24 years. “It has been a difficult decision but I am ready for new adventures. That’s how I look at it,” said Rose. “My main motivation was that my husband is retired and my family is spread out so it gives me more travel flexibility. I want to travel, volunteer, take piano lessons, quilt, and do things outdoors.…

Junior Kala Czanstkowski kicks a small blue box, now designated as her ‘sad box’ across the room. Loosely based off the book The Happiness Project, Czanstkowski has created a system with two boxes- one for happy thoughts, and one for sad. “In The Happiness Project, the lady looks at her life and thinks it could be better. It encouraged me to create boxes for myself to work through my every day life.” Messages in the bright pink ‘happy…

On Saturday, April 23 the Buffalo Bison Baseball team will be hosting the 4th annual Sam Munoz Memorial baseball game. Every year, the Bison dedicate and play a game in honor of former Buffalo High School student, Sam Munoz, who loved and played the game of baseball before he passed away in October 2007, due to injuries he sustained in a serious car accident. This year, Buffalo will play the New Prague Trojans with the J.V. game…

The Buffalo Bison boys Lacrosse team fell short to St Cloud Tech Tigers Monday April 18th losing with a score of (7 – 1). The Bison came out playing strong but there offense could not generate any constant pressure on the Tigers defense. After the first half the Tigers scored two goals and would not look back from there. The Bison came out with fire Louie Clifton scored in the third period but his goal…

On Saturday, April 16th, the National Pacemaker Award Winners were announced in Anaheim, California. The Hoofprint‘s website, hoofprint.net, won the award for the first time ever. The National Pacemaker Award “an award for excellence in American student journalism, given annually since 1927. The awards are generally considered to be the highest national honors in their field, and are unofficially known as the “Pulitzer Prizes of student journalism.” “It is nice to be recognized for all the work that…

Wash your hands, cover your cough, sneeze into your elbow, or use a kleenex,” are all phrases we heard as a young child. Things begin to change as you get older, the responsibility solely depends upon yourself. As you grow older you don’t always have a teacher or adult guiding you to cleanliness or peers singing the alphabet around you as you wash your hands. Keeping yourself clean keeps the things around you clean, thus…

On Thursday, April 21st, Seniors Marrissa Moe and Jacob Bastin will be playing on the All-Star Team at the Comedy Sportz theater in Calhoon Square in Minneapolis against the professional players at Comedy Sportz. Over the past few months, Moe and Jacob have been practicing improvisational acting (Improv) with the other members of the BHS CSz Team under the supervision of Mrs. Bertsch and Professional CSz player and referee Michael Bruckmuller every Tuesday from 2:40 to…

The Buffalo Bison Boys Lacrosse Team’s first game as a school sport started off with a loss (10-4) against Spring Lake Park on Thursday, April 14. The conditions for the game weren’t exactly what the team was hoping for, with high winds and very cool temperatures.  At one point, it even began to hail.  The teams were able to zone out the weather and still play to the best of their abilities. Junior Sam Mayhew…

Senioritis– from the prefix senior plus the suffix –itis is a colloquial term used in the United States to describe the decreased motivation toward studies displayed by students who are nearing the end of their High School career. The epidemic of Senioritis is running rapid through high schools throughout the country with the end of the school year approaching, and numerous cases are found here at Buffalo High School. “I’ve had all my credits done since first quarter this year,” said…

When the latest batch of freshmen enter the front doors of  Buffalo High School, each one of them comes in with their own viewpoint of what their time in high school is going to be like. The stress of juggling classwork, homework, tests, projects, and other class-related activities, as well as social activities like friends and being in a relationship, dealing with family, and after school activities like sports or clubs can drive any student…