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Quality Time

Quality Time is the Best Gift

Katelyn Tillotson, Staff Writer February 29, 2024

Although Valentine’s Day has passed, with prom approaching, many people are finding relationships and could be confused about what the best possible option for a gift could be, with any upcoming celebratory...

Love is given and received on Valentines Day.

Do You Like Valentine’s Day?

Cilla Fulwider, Staff Writer February 29, 2024

Valentine’s Day, a holiday all about showing love and affection towards someone you're in any type of relationship with. Many people wear the colors red and pink in order to represent love. The word...

Whether you get flowers or not on Valentine’s, there will be a rom-com to keep you company.

The Most Popular Rom-Com?

Kate Jennings, Features Editor February 29, 2024

Romantic comedies, also known as “rom-coms” are an epicenter of hope for the world's hopeless romantics. It is not unknown that people love to watch rom-coms no matter how cringy or unrealistic they...

Love!

Moments Before Junior Prom

Katelyn Tillotson, Staff Writer February 28, 2024

  Butterflies twist and turn throughout my stomach as the clock approaches four, the time he should be here. I run my hands down the front of my dress to straighten it, the sparkle of glitter and...

Romeo and Juliet

To Love A Writer

Kate Jennings, Features Editor February 28, 2024

To love a writer is unlike any other You will always be on their mind And overtake all of their time   To be described in the most beautiful way And forever wanting to stay   To...

True relationships create joy in every moment.

The Power of Relationships

Priscilla Fulwider, Staff Writer February 28, 2024

Relationships come and go Life moves on and so do we As we get older, they begin to show Many of which end with glee   Through the years, they come to be  Usually starting with...

Dolores O’Riordan and Noel Hogan let it linger, you should too.

Consider Letting it Linger

Abbey Underhill, Staff Writer February 23, 2024

“Linger,” a song by The Cranberries, was released on their debut album “Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” in 1993. So how is it that 30 years later, the song is still widely popular...

Celebrating the New Year 2024!

A Review of 2023

Kiera Walker, Staff Writer February 22, 2024

We are now in the year 2024. The 2023 year went by so fast but a lot happened in that year. All that was good, bad and in between. On January 10 Tyre Nichlos was pronounced dead after being pulled over...

The bench upon which paint looks like bleach

Circled in Red Maker

Iris Chiofolo, Opinion Editor February 20, 2024

I have seven hundred and thirty-one days. that’s seven hundred and thirty-one sunsets and seven hundred and thirty-one lunches and dinners and breakfasts two more summers two more birthdays   the...

A bacterial phage considered an alternative to antibiotic treatments.

Revolutionizing Healthcare: Phage Therapy

Ava White, Staff Writer February 20, 2024

American citizens should be dissatisfied, if not wholly repulsed, with the selfishness of the US Healthcare system. Every year, fourteen million people in the US enter inescapable debt due to expensive...

A representation of a broken heart.

Cupid’s Arrow

Cameron Simpson, Staff Writer February 18, 2024

Lights, camera, action! The flashes begin, My heart beats just a fraction, These nerves move beneath my skin.   I can never let them see The agony within, My lips form a silent...

Let’s end this “holiday” for good.

Is Valentine’s Day really a good holiday?

Kinley Waltman, Editor-in-Chief February 13, 2024

Ah, Valentine's Day, the one day a year when love is in the air and florists rejoice as they rake in the profits from overpriced bouquets. But let's be real here. Is Valentine's Day really the beacon of...

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