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Emily’s Editorial: The Ever-Changing English Language

Emily’s Editorial: The Ever-Changing English Language

Emily Stocksdale, Literature Editor January 25, 2017

After enduring multiple class periods filled with harshly mispronounced words and stilted sentences, I have grown to dread the daily reading of The Taming of the Shrew in my language arts class.  While...

The classrooms in the clinic replace the old back room of the cafeteria. Students in all healthcare classes will share a commonplace for community learning.

North Forsyth Designs New Healthcare Clinic

Natalie Wilson, Co-Editor January 24, 2017

  In addition to the recently completed construction, North Forsyth High School has set aside a part of its yearly budget to improve its up and coming healthcare pathway. Inspired by the growth...

Hailey’s Herald: Suppress the Stress

Hailey’s Herald: Suppress the Stress

Hailey Yarbrough, Editor-in-chief January 20, 2017

November is the month where many colleges close their early application portals and release their decisions in the later weeks. Students across the nation sit in anxiety and await to discover their future...

Why is Football So Important in America?

Why is Football So Important in America?

Kristin Iler, Sports Editor January 5, 2017

It’s that time of year where NFL is the main topic at the dinner table during the holidays. That being said, why is football so important in America, but not in other countries? The fact that we religiously...

How to Find Literature the Speaks to You

How to Find Literature the Speaks to You

Morgan Champion, Poetry Editor December 13, 2016

One of the most beautiful and underrated forms of entertainment in the world today is literature. Perhaps its lack of unpopularity is because our population is far too busy to pick up a good book in the...

Notes from Noah: Why We Won’t Accept the President-Elect

Notes from Noah: Why We Won’t Accept the President-Elect

Noah Smith, Opinion Editor December 9, 2016

Protests have broken out all across the nation in an attempt to make a statement against the election of Donald Trump for presidency. The vast majority of these protests have been extremely peaceful, with...

We’re Going to be Okay

We’re Going to be Okay

JoAnn Ahn, News Editor December 9, 2016

So it’s been a few weeks since the most intriguing and unprecedented election of the modern era unfolded before our oblivious eyes, and what a week it has been. While half of America resides in some...

Emily’s Editorial:  On Writing Well

Emily’s Editorial: On Writing Well

Emily Stocksdale, Literature Editor November 15, 2016

Writing can be one of the most enjoyable and therapeutic pastimes around, especially because there is such a broad spectrum of genres to choose from.  Poetry and song lyrics are enjoyable to write because...

Halloween to the Max! This Year’s Best Costumes

Halloween to the Max! This Year’s Best Costumes

Leilani Gibbons, Features Editor November 15, 2016

With the new Star Wars movie being released earlier this year and a plethora of scary movies, Halloween saw a large range of new and exciting costumes this year. Despite what people may say, high school...

Notes from Noah: Why Chance the Rapper is Important

Notes from Noah: Why Chance the Rapper is Important

Noah Smith, Opinion Editor November 2, 2016

Chance the Rapper is currently one of the most polarizing figures in the entire music industry. Most of this springs less from his actual music and more from the fact that he does not sell any of his music....

Will Reading Fade Due to Technology?

Will Reading Fade Due to Technology?

Morgan Champion, Poetry Editor November 2, 2016

With a sudden rise in technology, entertainment and the urban atmosphere, the citizens of the world have become obsessed with an ideology of everything that has ever come into existence—movies, TV shows,...

UGA Is Not the Only Option

UGA Is Not the Only Option

Natalie Wilson, Co-Editor-in-Chief November 2, 2016

As a senior in fall semester, I am no stranger to the college application process: I have toured, attended and researched with the best of them, and I am beginning to notice a problem with the way students...

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