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Juniors defeat both classes, win annual powderpuff game

Juniors defeat both classes, win annual powderpuff game

Intensity stewed on the field as the sophomore and junior classes prepared for their powderpuff game at 3:30 Thursday, Nov. 10. The winner of the first game would move onto…

Lost in Time

Lost in Time

Anachronism. Noun. A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. The Society For Creative Anachronism is…

The Chair: Finding lessons in a legless week

The Chair: Finding lessons in a legless week

The muscles in my arms strained. “Just one more inch,” I thought, “and then I can open the door.” My red painted fingernails brushed the wooden edge of the door.…

Sit back and relax

Sit back and relax

  I was pushing against an immovable barrier, sitting cross-legged on my bed listening to spa music. I tried to meditate, pushing aside all of my thoughts — homework, rehearsals…

A vegan’s dilemma: I will not eat green eggs and ham

A vegan’s dilemma: I will not eat green eggs and ham

    On a typical morning, I ignore breakfast as I try to get through the higher teenage priorities of sunrise: 20 more minutes of sleep, one more coat of…

Money not on my mind: Eye-opening week in poverty costs perseverance, loneliness

Money not on my mind: Eye-opening week in poverty costs perseverance, loneliness

  I can’t afford it,” I said Monday morning when my friend asked to take me out to lunch. Even though I had spent an hour the night before cooking…

All Made Up: Appearance influences impressions

All Made Up: Appearance influences impressions

Around 900 girls stroll the hallways of RBHS each day, and about 78 percent – or 700 of them – are unhappy with their bodies, according to a study conducted…

Wrapped in conviction: Expression of faith exposes stereotypes

Wrapped in conviction: Expression of faith exposes stereotypes

    Eyes followed me as I walked through the back door of my church. I was a stranger in my own place of worship, an outsider in a place…

A tale of 2 houses

A tale of 2 houses

Switching houses and families for a week allowed us to peer into lives of foreign exchange students and those who leave RBHS to live overseas though they are away from…

Couch surfing delivers uncushioned blow

Couch surfing delivers uncushioned blow

The MKT trail is not the friendliest of places, not at night. As I walked down the steadily darkening trail near Stewart Road, things scurried about in the dark, and…

A Look at ‘The Music Man’

A Look at ‘The Music Man’

As you hopefully know, the Music Man opens tonight (this being Thursday), and while you’re watching it you’ll probably see the standard sights: wandering salesmen, studious schoolchildren, and…

Boys’ soccer quarterfinal to take place on home field

Boys’ soccer quarterfinal to take place on home field

Boys soccer will compete at the quarterfinal level at 2 p.m. Saturday Nov. 12 on the Bruins’ field. The team will play Nixa High School (24-3), sectional winner of District…

Inside “The Music Man”

Inside “The Music Man”

Take a trip to River City, Indiana with this years winter musical, the Music Man in this weeks podcast. …