Mrs. Rodenwald, teacher at here at BHS, is February’s feature teacher. She has been teaching for nine years. She was born in Fridley, Mn but attended Prior Lake High School. Her college degree is a BA in Biology/Ed MS in Chemistry. She is married to Todd Rodenwald and has three children: Danielle, 6, Annie, 4 1/2, and Brandon, 2 1/2. In her free time she enjoys reading, activities and athletic events, and playing with her…

Snow daze started on Friday the 18th with a 70’s disco dance after the boys basketball game. It was a great turn out and raised money for track and field. Snow days is a week of excitement and fun activities. Each day is a different dress up day including Tuesday being get up an go, Wednesday being work out day, Thursday being formal day, and Friday being flannel day. There are also after school activities…

Nick Weeks is the ultimate friend, role model, and yes, creeper.  He is involved in Yearbook, Hoofprint, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and the Broadcasting Team. Nick has a very outgoing personality, but it is unique.  He can create conversations with the most random people, such as security guards, random people at McDonalds, and anyone he thinks is interesting.  All it takes is for him to introduce himself by saying, “Hi I’m Nick Weeks!”  His charismatic personality makes…

The Buffalo Bison Boys Hockey team finished their season Tuesday night with a loss to Moorhead in a section 8AAAA first round game. The Bison entered the game with a record of 3-19-3, and ranked seventh in the section, while Moorhead went in with a record of 15-7-2, and ranked second in the section. Buffalo came out strong defensively and held the Spuds off the scoreboard for the first 17 minutes, and went in to…

Social Studies teacher Todd Manninen had a guest speaker, Dr. Rosilyn Carroll,academic adviser at Hamline University,  come and speak to his class about racism on Friday. Carrol is originally from the St. Paul area. She came to our school with the goal to help teach and inform students for a day about the effects of Racism and help them try to understand what it truely is defined as. She greatly  emphasized her opinion that racism is a…

The Bison Boys’ Basketball team had a rough game against St. Michael-Albertville Tuesday night, resulting in a 45-41 loss. This was the third Conference game the boys had lost in the last 5 years. Buffalo came out on fire in the first half, shutting down STMA to only 7 points with the Bison leading 16-7. Though, when the boys came back out for the second half of the game, they fell apart. Still pulling through,…

Bison Girls’ Basketball holds the title of Conference Champs after an emotional 54-47 win against STMA last night in the BHS gym. They kept a consistent lead over the Knights throughout the game, and finished with a 7 point lead. “It’s been something we’ve talked about since we were freshmen,” said Senior Calli Durst. “Beating STMA on our home court for the conference title is a goal we set at the beginning of the season,…

The Boys’ Swim and Dive Team is heading to sections February 25 and 26 in Alexandria. As the final week of practice approaches, the tension is building trying to perfect their swimming techniques. The boys have high hopes about this years competition. “This meet is going to be sweet,” said Senior Blake Solberg, returning state participant. “I think that we are going to be sending the most, ever, to state this year then in the past.…

It was a hard game for the boy’s hockey team playing Edina on yesterday at the civic center.  The Bison suffered a hard loss with a final score of 2-8. Although Edina is ranked 6th in the state 2A, Buffalo came out on fire with Senior Tony Thien scoring the first goal only six minutes into the first period. By the end of the first, Edina was able to sneak in three, goals making the score…

Last week, February 7-11, students at BHS filled out a Valentines matchmaker questionnaire. This questionnaire was filled with questions that would match them up with someone that they are most compatible with. There are two sheets: Same grade and the rest of the school.  Not only would they match them up with the opposite sex but, this questionnaire would tell them their most compatible and opposite friends. “I thought that the matchmaker questionnaire was a…