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NEWS BRIEF: Board Extends Fall Break

Natasha Torkzaban, Cici Hunter, and Isis Norris • November 12, 2021

School is cancelled Nov. 22 and 23. The USD 497 Board of Education voted 5-2 to extend Fall break at an emergency meeting held today. Students and staff now have a full week off from...

NEWS BRIEF: School board approves changes to school schedule, weighted gating criteria

Jack Bellemere, Reporter • December 15, 2020

Students will get two more days of winter break than expected, following last night’s school board meeting. Classes will resume on Jan. 7 instead of Jan. 5. Those two extra days will be used for...

School board postpones adopting county health department reopening guidance

Jack Bellemere, Reporter • November 24, 2020

USD 497’s school board discussed using new metrics for reopening schools and planning for the winter sports season during its Monday meeting. The board narrowly declined to adopt Lawrence Douglas...

To the Freshman….

amani safadi, managing editor • August 26, 2011

For many seniors this isn’t the way they imagined their senior year would start. They may feel the freshman are ruining their senior year; a year that is supposed to be the best year of their lives. What...

Courting Change

miranda davis • September 23, 2010

Traditions are important to the high school experience. Yet every once in a while a tradition, even one as vital to high school as Homecoming, needs some alterations. During this year’s Homecoming nominations,...