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Free Press Online
The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online
The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online

Baila Love, Online Editor-in-Chief

Baila Love is the Editor-in-Chief of the Free State Free Press Online. Her goals for the 2025-2026 school year are to make our content more interesting for our readers and to be an Online Pacemaker finalist. Outside of journalism, she is involved in forensics, theater, improv and Finer Things Club. Outside of school, she likes to practice her instruments, listen to CDs and hang out with her cat, Julien.

All content by Baila Love
Design by Baila Love. Photos by Miles Beaty, Kinley Gigous, Nathan Kramer, Baila Love, Julia Velasco and Eden Weber.

PACKAGE: Summer Through Our Eyes

Baila Love, Evie Chancy, and Maria Mosconi
August 18, 2025
Photos sourced from Universal Pictures, The Walt Disney Company, Columbia Records, Universal Music Group, Netflix, Inc. and Warner Record, Inc. Design by Baila Love.

REVIEW: Blockbusters, Bops and Binges

Baila Love, Online Editor-in-Chief
August 18, 2025
Photo collected from Mimi Wood. Design by Baila Love.

[Photo] FEATURE: On The Road

Meredith Shryock, News Copy Editor
August 18, 2025
Displayed in the window sill, senior Evie Chancy's polaroids from Jayhawk Media Workshop stay in her dorm.

FEATURE: Birds To Hawks

Evie Chancy and Baila Love
June 30, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle

Baila Love, Odelia Colvin, and Kinley Gigous
June 6, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Bird Words

Baila Love, Kinley Gigous, and Odelia Colvin
June 6, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Categories

Baila Love, Odelia Colvin, and Kinley Gigous
June 6, 2025
Digital illustration by Lucas Smith

REVIEW: Baila’s Top 8 of April

Baila Love, Online Editor-In-Chief
May 25, 2025
Design by Allison McCall

OPINION: Glam or Gimmick?

Evie Chancy and Baila Love
May 20, 2025
Protesting, a group of individuals join together on Easter to continue their weekly Sunday protest. “Our constitution is being decimated by the Trump administration. They only care about their billionaire friends,” Anda Arms said.

NEWS: Students Protest the Trump Administration

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
May 16, 2025
Giving a speech, juniors Julia Velasco and Kyle Sikes explain their policies.

[Photo] BREAKING NEWS: Vanquishing The Votes

Dylan Tenbrink, Reporter
May 2, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Bird Words, May 2

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
May 2, 2025
Digital illustration by Kouri Demelash.

REVIEW: “Live at Revolution Hall” by Adrianne Lenker

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
May 1, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Categories, May 1

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
May 1, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Bird Words, May 1

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
May 1, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, May 1

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
May 1, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Bird Words, April 30

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 30, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 30

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 30, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Categories, April 30

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 30, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Categories, April 29

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 29, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Bird Words, April 29

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 29, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 29

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 29, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 28

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 28, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Categories, April 28

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 28, 2025
Design by Harper Finck

GAME: Bird Words, April 28

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 28, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 25

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 25, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 24

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 24, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 23

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 23, 2025
Baila's Top 8 of March on a cassette. Design by Lucas Smith.

REVIEW: Baila’s Top 8 of March

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 22, 2025
Design by Baila Love.

GAME: Birdle, April 22

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 22, 2025
67 games, one winner. Who ya got? Design by Baila Love.

[Photo] SPORTS: March Madness Mania

Rakshan Ossen, Sports Editor
March 17, 2025
Cover of Lucy Dacus' latest album, Forever Is a Feeling.

REVIEW: Forever Is a Feeling

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
April 12, 2025
Design by Lucas Smith

QUIZ: Which Free State Pet Are You?

Eula Heriford and Baila Love
March 31, 2025
On stage, juniors Baila Love and Felix McGowan practice alongside their director senior Cooper Hefty for Black Box Theatre Festival.

FEATURE: Theater and Flicks

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
March 26, 2025
Photos by Nathan Kramer, Nathan Friedman and Sydney Brozik. Design by Baila Love.

QUIZ: Which 2024-2025 Free State Journalism Editor-in-Chief Are You?

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
March 13, 2025
Senior Lily Dixon, senior Gillian Sellet and senior Lois Xie are all presidents of clubs at Free State. Photos by Eden Weber, design by Baila Love.

[Photo] FEATURE: Girls Rule Free State

Evie Chancy, News Managing Editor
March 11, 2025
A CD with all of Online Managing Editor Baila Love's favorite songs from February. Digital Illustration by Lucas Smith

REVIEW: Baila’s Top 8 of February

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
March 11, 2025
Grappling, women's wrestlers get ready to wrestle.

PHOTO GALLERY: Winter Sports

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
March 5, 2025
Photo illustration by Baila Love

SIDEBAR: Jerd Playlist

Lilly Wall and Baila Love
February 17, 2025
Digital illustration by Lucas Smith

REVIEW: Baila’s Top 8 of January

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
February 17, 2025
Digital Illustration by Lucas Smith

CONTEST: Unique Pets Feature

Baila Love, Online Managing Editor
February 7, 2025
Facing away, an actor looks over the stage before a big performance.

[Photo] FEATURE: Under the Spotlight

Dylan Tenbrink, Reporter
February 6, 2025
Hanging on the wall, the mosaic sign for Cleo And Leo's bakery is on display inside of the restaurant.

[Photo] REVIEW: Cleo & Leo on Elm Street

Olive Minor, Reporter
January 13, 2025
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[Photo] RECORDING: Winter Choral Concert

Nathan Kramer, Videographer
December 6, 2024
Digital Illustration by Kouri Demelash

OPINION: Holiday Debate

Ava Talbott and Baila Love
December 3, 2024
Waiting for students, a bus is parked outside of Free State.

[Photo] FEATURE: Round and Round

Evie Chancy, News Managing Editor
December 3, 2024
Laughing together, journalism staff members Katie Campbell, Lauren Rosen and Jaehee Kim try items off of the Starbucks holiday menu.

[Photo] REVIEW: Starbucks Holiday Menu

Lauren Jackson, Reporter
November 27, 2024
Design by Baila Love

[Photo] Starbucks Holiday Menu

November 22, 2024
Seniors Liv Brack and Vivi Riffel and freshman Cadence Mayfield look over a book report in Free State’s adaptation of Footloose.

PHOTO GALLERY: Footloose

Kinley Gigous, Miles Beaty, Baila Love, and Eli Roust
November 14, 2024
Cover of Charli XCX's new album, "brat."

REVIEW: Brat by Charli XCX

Evie Chancy and Baila Love
August 23, 2024
Screen Shot 2024-04-30 at 1.58.14 PM

[Photo] PHOTO GALLERY: The Importance of Being Earnest

Mallory Thompson, News Photo Editor
April 30, 2024
REVIEW: The Tortured Poets Department

REVIEW: The Tortured Poets Department

Baila Love, Photographer
April 26, 2024
Album covers from releases in March.

REVIEW: March Music Mania

Baila Love, Photographer
April 22, 2024
Screenshot 2024-04-04 at 11.13.27 AM

[Photo] PHOTO GALLERY: Varsity and JV girls soccer teams beat Shawnee Mission North

Chloe Cook, News Photo Editor
April 4, 2024
Screenshot 2024-02-08 at 2.26.18 PM

[Photo] PHOTO GALLERY: Women of Lockerbie

Eli Roust, Yearbook Photo Editor
February 8, 2024
“get out of your winter blues!!” playlist, available on Spotify via the link in story.

FEATURE: Get Out of Your Winter Blues Playlist

Baila Love, Photographer
February 1, 2024
Two hands exchange money, signifying the Writers Guild of America and their strike for increased pay and improved working conditions.

[Photo] FEATURE: The End of the Hollywood Writers Strike

Claire Heinritz, Reporter
October 12, 2023
Screen Shot 2023-10-09 at 8.57.07 AM

[Photo] PHOTO GALLERY: JV Boys Soccer vs. Gardner Edgerton

Chloe Cook, Yearbook Photo Editor
October 9, 2023
PHOTO GALLERY: Little Firebird Soccer Clinic

PHOTO GALLERY: Little Firebird Soccer Clinic

Baila Love, Photographer
September 28, 2023
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