• Are Crocs ugly or fashionable? The debate continues as they are becoming more common. “If you want to wear closed toed shoes, just wear actual shoes,” said Freshman Alex Hage, referring to Crocs at school. The colorful plastic shoes known as Crocs were a popular fad in the late 2000’s, when most of current high schoolers were in elementary school. For a few years they seemed to go away and out of style. Sophomore Megan…

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  • Have you ever wondered how much of your battery is being used on your Iphone? “I have wondered why sometimes when I use certain apps my battery dramatically drains.” Said Senior Elise Swanson. New in the iOS 8 settings application is the ability to track battery usage per each app you have installed on your device. This method is very similar to tracking your cellular data usage. Previously in iOS 7, it shows you how…

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  • The district recently passed a 33 million dollar bond. A major part of the bond is going to the new stadium that will begin construction over the summer and is scheduled to be completed in the Fall of 2016 Not all the money is going to the stadium; the bond is also going to a new gym, upgrading new computers, putting some new surveillance cameras in, and a bunch of smaller projects, so they will make the…

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  • Going on the Spain trip on June 10th are 30 students from BHS’ Spanish classes. In order to go on the trip, the students were required to have gone through at least the third level of Spanish, although many have gone on to Spanish 4. On the morning of June 10th, the students will get up before their normal school time in order to board their plane in Minneapolis at 8:00 AM. The plane will…

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  • A new-found hobby is always exciting, but usually only lasts a couple of years or so. Senior, Rebecca Kohnen found her hobby in 7th grade but for her, it’s more than just a hobby. Photography is her passion. “I started getting into photography when I was in 7th grade. My class at my old school, Salem Lutheran, took a trip to Washington DC. Every single day we were there I had to buy a new memory…

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  • Students at BHS tell us what they want to accomplish before the last day of the 2014-2015 year.

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  • Girls are expected to smell like flowers and rainbows, but that’s just not the case anymore. Believe it or not, girls actually sweat, just as much as boys in fact! Sweating has been happening since dinosaurs, but what hasn’t been happening is women using men’s deodorent. So how did this start? “I started using men’s deodorent because I sweat like a man, and it’s necessary.  I actually started using it in 6th grade, because of…

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  • We asked a variety of students at BHS and it turns out our older siblings have a lot of influence on us in many different ways. One way that stood out to us was, maybe just maybe, our older siblings influence who we hangout with, rather it’s male or female. Yes, there are loop holes to everything and some people have different opinions. We did some research and found that female students with older brothers,…

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  • Playing an instrument at a competitive level requires hours upon hours of continual practice and learning experience. After playing the trumpet in fifth grade, Senior Scott Welch began to learn and experiment with music at a level above the average high school musician; he is able to play a variety of brass instruments. “I started playing trumpet in fifth grade. I switched to euphonium in freshman year and decided to do Jazz Band. I started…

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