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Madi Jones

Madi’s favorite color is blue, and when she grows up she wants to be a CIA agent. She was vice president of the thespian board her junior year and is a master at finger foo. 2010-2011 were Madi’s first two semesters in newspaper.
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Bookin it to the jungle

Lights up, animal sounds fill the air, three women enter and so began The Jungle Book. The Jungle Book pawed its way to the Denis Hildreth Auditorium May 2-4.  The play is directed by drama teacher Emily Griffin “The play the Jungle Book is about a man cub who is taken by his parents and raised by the jungle creatures.  [...]

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Real Designs Real Teens

Spreadsheets, problem solving and the presentation are done.  Time to relax.  The season has just ended for the scarcely known Real World Design Challenge team. Science teacher Mark Schnurstein with the help of fellow science colleague Adam Puderbaugh oversees the students involved.  Students Marissa Van Elson. Tomas Read, Matt Murr and Dylan Mangano are the ones involved. [...]

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Bowling besties

Cheers erupting loudly are heard from the next lane.  A strike has been bowled and it’s time to celebrate the win.  It’s that time of year again for the sport with the three-holed, hard, heavy ball and pins to make an appearance on the sports calendars. There are many different players on the team, but [...]

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How far is too far

Teenage hormones can get the best of teens sometimes, grinding at school dances being one.  The no grinding rule at Valley started a chain of events that could change things for students.  There is a point when there can be too much of something, like grinding at dances. Some people might say, oh its just grinding! What’s the [...]

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Breaking dawn: the new academy

The Academy of Music Art and Drama (AMAD) is an academy that students participate in if they want to have more experience in the arts and where they have the possibility to explore adn see if it is something that they would like to pursue after college. There are a fair amount of people involved in the [...]

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If one goes down, we all go down

A stormy gray sky boomed with the forming twister.  Students go into their respective spots in the hallway.  But wait, the long hallway students had yet to leave their classrooms.  The announcement that was made about the oncoming twister failed to reach their rooms. The classrooms that are by the Meredith-Hoover connection do not have [...]

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