Baseball Team remix

May 15, 2012

Our version of a video created by the Harvard baseball team posted on UTube.

Alvarez’s essay honors Matt Hundley

Kallie Stallbaumer
April 18, 2012

“Someone once said, ‘to teach is to touch lives forever.’” Senior Veronica Alvarez recently used those words in an essay she wrote about her favorite teacher, Matt Hundley, HHS sophomore English teacher. Alvarez entered Barnes and Noble’s “My Favorite Teacher” contest. Her essay was chosen... Read more »

Mirror, mirror on the wall. . . who’s the strongest of us all?

Nicole Darveaux
March 16, 2012

Students have been dedicating their time to the weight room all year long so they can show off all of the work in a few short hours during the annual lift-a-thon.  Students collected pledges for the amount of weight each would lift. The money was used for the weight room. The two lifts that the weight... Read more »

Beightel to fill Maxwell’s position

Garett Beecher
March 15, 2012

Linda Maxwell, school secretary for Holton High School is turning over a new page in her life. Maxwell plans to quit her job as a secretary for Holton High School and pursue a new career at the Denison State Bank. This leaves an opening in the Holton High School staff, which is going to be filled by... Read more »

Students apply real-world geometry skills to projects

Kaitlin Peterson, photographer
March 15, 2012

  Geometry students have been working with 3D objects and finding their volumes and surface areas under the direction of student teacher Lisa Wade. Last Friday Wade gave her classes a handout saying that they must make a project having something to do with volume and surface area. Many people choose... Read more »

Softball season begins

Emmy McManigal, Features editor
March 13, 2012

  The sound of a bat cracking, a ball whizzing by, or the pop of leather as a player catches a ball. Yep, it’s softball season. Soon, all of those sweet sounds will be combined with the cheering of fans, the crowd munching on popcorn, and an announcer telling who’s up to bat. Softball practice... Read more »

Student journalists qualify for state

March 9, 2012

At the 3A/4A KSPA Journalism Regionals, seventeen students placed in twenty-two contests to qualify for state competition in May. The following students placed in first, second, or third place, or one of three honorable mentions in each division in which all regional 3A and 4A schools competed against... Read more »

Three journalism students place at State

May 9, 2011

Three journalism students placed in the 3A/4A category by receiving one of six places in their competition last Saturday, May 7.  Kylie Miller, junior, earned first in feature writing; Sam Riley, junior, earned honorable mention in yearbook layout; and Emily Zwonitzer, junior, took honorable mention... Read more »

Band students compete in Regionals

May 9, 2011

The following students performed at Regional Solo/ Ensembles at the Regional Music Festival Saturday in Junction City in April:  Jessup White – baritone solo III; Megan Hale, Rachelle Harman, Paige Riley – flute trio II; Megan Hale – flute I; Jordan Beightel – tenor sax I; Shayla... Read more »