Every year www.rockthebelt.org has a Buckle Up Teens! contest.  Minnesotan teenagers make their own T.V. commercials educating their peers about the importance of buckling up.  Eventually there are six finalists, and this year two of the six are from BHS.  Juniors Neil Gleason and Michael Bonde both made it to the top six, and now they are waiting for the results.      “I entered the contest last year and got into the top three,”…

Buffalo Bison Girls softball has really turned their season around with a five game win streak going.  Winning their last five games against Monticello, Zimmerman, St. Michael-Albertville, and a double-header against Princeton our Bison softball team has really been working hard.  With their last five games they have changed their record from 3-5-0 to 8-5-0, and are now 2nd in confrence. “I think that since we’ve been working mainly on our hitting we’ve been doing…

    The Track and Field season is quickly coming to a close. There are only a few more meets left in the regular season and then the Bison head to Sections and hopefully the State Track and Field meet. There are many Seniors on the team and the team is the strongest it has been in many years.       On Thursday May 7 The Bison will head to Sauk Rapids for the True Team Sections meet.…

On April 27th, Buffalo Highschool’s National Honor Society inducted over 100 new members into their ranks. Students with a GPA average of 10.0 or greater were offered the chance to prove their character by participating in National Honor Society. This year’s induction ceremony filled up the PAC with eager students and family members ready to applaud for the students’ success. With character, scholarship, leadership, and service as the four pillars that NHS is built upon, the…

The outbreak of H1N1 (Swine Flu or Mexican Flu) is believed to have started in March 2009 and was classified as meeting the criteria for the World Health Organization pandemic Phase 5 status on April 28. Local outbreaks of the virus were first detected in three suburban parts of Mexico, and other small rural areas throughout the country. Mexico started with only three infected. That number has now spread to a suspected 2500 persons. Mexico…

On Monday, April 27 the Bison defeated the Princeton Tigers twice.  Buffalo took an early lead and kept it throughout the rest of the first game. The team shut out the Tigers with and ending score of 7-0. The second game seemed to be a repeat of the first with the Bison taking the lead right away in the first inning. But this time Princeton fought back and earned one run of their own to…

Hearing your name called, walking onto the stage where all eyes in the crowd are on you, lights beaming into your vision, along with the sound of mumbling voices and flashing cameras best describes the setting of grand march. “I always get nervous at grand march,” said Senior Jade Kalash, “I am just afraid of tripping down the stairs, even though this is my 4th prom I still get nervous at grand march With all…

April 28th’s game at St. Michael’s home field, compared to our blow out game last week on our own turf, was a huge step up. Last week the Buffalo Bison played a brutal game vs. St. Michael with a total of 8 errors and lost to the Knights 16 to 1. Lasts night’s game vs. the STMA Knights was the kind of game that made you sit on the edge of your seat the entire time. The Bison made a huge leap and went…

As most of the student body at BHS has noticed, all of the soda machines in the high school have switched to diet.  I’m assuming it’s just another attempt to make us healthy.  I really don’t see how diet soda is any healthier than regular soda.  If they were really concerned about our health, they would have gotten rid of soda altogether. All soft drinks are linked to obesity.  The more pop you drink, the…

Recruiting sub station Buffalo goes to Arden hill training site were they participated in a mini boot camp were poolies and guest got a taste of what it going to be like at boot camp. the men and women of RSS Buffalo went on what for some of them was something that expanded their knowledge of how the marine corps works. at 1:30 RSS Buffalo made it way down to Arden Hill training  site. when they…