Photography and video by Sara Larson. Narration and production by Kaehler Reitz.

As students put off purchasing their semester parking permits, more and more warning slips are handed out.  Walking to their cars, students pass the rows of cars with the little slips of paper placed under the windshield wipers. “We try to give out at least two warnings before receiving the boot,” said Assistant Principal Brandon Prell.  “We try to avoid taking it that far because teachers don’t want to deal with it any more than…

  Fox Sports Television is coming to Buffalo for the Boys’ Hockey Team’s showdown with the Wayzata Trojans on Feb. 10. The game starts at 7pm at the Buffalo Civic Center. There is a tailgating party 4:30-6:30 in the parking lot for both student and parents. Around the high school flyers were posted by the team, asking that all fans dress in black to make a “black out”. A few weeks ago, fans created a white out. Like…

With a record of 6 wins and 2 losses, the boy’s swim and dive team heads into a challenging week.             They have meets on Tuesday and Thursday, one away and one home. Then on Friday they play hooky and leave school at 9 A.M. to head up to Hibbing for a dual meet. They will try to get some sleep in Hibbing because the next day they have yet another meet. The Saturday meet…

poolies for RSS buffalo and coon rapids meet with dill instroctor as parents ask questions about what boot camp will be like

Thanks to Cultures United and the Arts Magnet Program, the Mixed Blood theater presented Daughters of Africa in the PAC on Thursday.  This play was a monologue of  things African American females have been through over the years. The basis of the play was an airplane ride back in time. While music was played, many stories were told going from a women slave whose son was sold to Harriet Tubman. Some other stories and names that…

This weekend, the One-Act play, Bury the Dead, took first place in the Sub-Section 2AACompetition. The group received unanimous top scores from the three judges.  They were judged on characterization, script interpretation, blocking, diction and volume. The cast will advance to the Section Tournament on Feb. 7, where they must take first place in order to advance to State. The first scene in Bury the Dead is about five soldiers who were killed in combat but…

On the evening of January 27th, the Arts Magnet Foundations Class held their fourth annual arts showcase. The show, “Experience the Experiment” consisted of twenty-two acts of poems, monologues, skits, songs, and dances all written  or created by the students. Waiting outside the PAC doors, the various art pieces made by the students were hung on display; everything that the students had made over their entire time in The Arts Foundations class were there for everyone to…

The Monday, January 26 school board meeting was more popular than most, as parents and students made emotional pleas to the school board to consider NOT eliminating, primarily, the high school activities. Those who spoke during the public comment portion spoke mostly on behalf of the boys swimming and diving team, but also spoke for skiing and speech. They encouraged the board to allow the parents to come up with other funding possibilities before they…

Despite the recent announcement of the possible cut of the Swim and Dive program, the boys swim team is having the best season in its short history.