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

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Do Teachers use Technology?

Evan Frook, Reporter February 17, 2014

Later this semester, teachers will receive some type of mobile device, be it laptop, tablet, or otherwise. Given that some teachers still struggle with using their SMART Boards, there’s some concern...

Reporter Fiona McAllister reads a Simpsons comic book with freshman Benji Horton.

Happy helper

fiona mcallister, reporter December 13, 2013

Rather than spend the day going from class to class, freshman Benji Horton spends most of his day in the special education classroom. Horton has autism, a developmental disorder that affects his social...

Behind the Meals

Behind the Meals

gavin spence and becca moran November 11, 2013

On a daily basis, the cafeteria  workers arrive at  6:30 a.m. to satisfy the breakfast crowd with huge grins, open arms and ample pumpkin muffins. After 8:05 a.m., the lunchroom still hasn’t taken...

New Administrator, Keith Jones, Embraces Schools culture

New Administrator, Keith Jones, Embraces School’s culture

morgan noll, reporter September 16, 2013

     New assistant principal Keith Jones is an unfamiliar face in the halls, but one short conversation with him, and he is no longer a stranger. His use of “you know” in the holes of conversation...

Bird’s Word: Students return to school

ryan liston, co-online editor in chief August 16, 2013

India Taylor

India Taylor

kyra haas, online co-managing editor May 14, 2013

Known for her love of tickling people and her overwhelmingly positive attitude, junior India Taylor has spent her days at Free State trying to bring out  the best in people by being the best she can be.   “I...

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The Road After High School

kyra haas and ryan liston, reporters November 13, 2012

Mary Gregory Sophomore Mary Gregory doesn’t want to be here for the rest of her life.  She would cry if she couldn’t go somewhere else for college. Her grandparents want her to go to school...

Re: Locker Neighbors

katie guyot, co-editor-in-chief October 1, 2012

Dear Free State From: Katie Guyot Re: Locker Neighbors Dear lower locker buddy, Let me begin by apologizing once again for knocking you in the head with my locker door during the first week of...

Khadre Lane: Small School Player

kimberly messineo, reporter May 14, 2012

“I just couldn't get over how many people are at Free State,” sophomore Khadre Lane said. Lane transferred from Bishop Seabury Academy during the middle of his sophomore year so he could experience...

New Technology Taking Over

kimberly messineo, reporter October 20, 2011

From typewriters to computers, tape players to iTunes and postage mail to instant messages, the world has made many advancements in technology. Even in a school community, the technology advancements...

How to Survive High School 101

emma machell May 26, 2011

Every student has been there; new school, new teachers, new everything.  Life at high school would have been so much better if there had just been a guide to help, a Virgil to teenage Dante if you get...

Katherine Corliss: Senior Column

Katherine Corliss May 26, 2011

Next year I will be attending Baylor University with zero of my current classmates (although Mitch Todd is going there too, if any of you guys remember him). I’ll be in the land of Chick Fil-a cowboy...

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