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Preview of Upcoming Earth Fair

Preview of Upcoming Earth Fair

This Saturday, the gymnasium will be transformed from Coach Hair’s stomping ground into a space overflowing with animals, vendors, performers and more. The 11th annual Earth Fair will be held at east from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., put on by Environmental Education and Environmental Club students.

 

Spring Fever

Spring Fever

Shakespeare wrote about it, Elvis Presley sang a song about it, Huck Finn taught Tom Sawyer about it and animals have gone crazy from it: and now it’s back. Spring fever has arrived and it’s thriving here at East.

 

Staffer’s Family Has a Legacy of Running Track

Staffer’s Family Has a Legacy of Running Track

Senior Emma Pennington talks about the pressure of having her father as a coach in high school and her continued passion for track.

 

Student Compares School to Prison

Student Compares School to Prison

Senior Emma Pennington depicts how harsh rules regarding trivial matters create a jail-like environment.

 

Girls’ Swim Team Works Toward Repeat State Title

Girls’ Swim Team Works Toward Repeat State Title

Varsity swimmers share their hopes and goals for this season.

 

Seniors Look to Pursue Cheering in College

Three times a week, seniors Cate Birkenmeier and Heather Nelson go to the gym to practice for their college cheer tryouts with a workout: stretching and then moving on to practicing their standing back-flips. They always try to ease into working on their harder stunts, such as flying with a [...]

 

Freshman Alex Stonebarger started a foundation, Fetching Dreams, to help local animals

Freshman Alex Stonebarger started a foundation, Fetching Dreams, to help local animals

Freshman Alex Stonebarger brushes her favorite rescue dog, Fletch’s, shiny, black fur. She carefully avoids going over the pit-bull’s sad, scarred face. Though the scars aren’t painful anymore, she can’t imagine how scared and hurt he must have been when he got them. Fletch was picked up on the side [...]

 

Teacher copes with death of his daughter

Teacher copes with death of his daughter

New U.S. History teacher, Greg Smith, learns to cope after his daughters murder

 

Students Take Challenging Electives

Students Take Challenging Electives

Profiles of students who choose to take hard elective classes.

 

Senior will take semester off at outdoor school after graduation

Senior will take semester off at outdoor school after graduation

When senior Grant Stauffer had to retake Spanish 2 his junior year, taking a semester off before starting college began to seem more and more like a good idea. High school had become boring and he found little excitement throughout the school day. The thought of spending a semester in [...]

 

Wiffleball tournament supports foundation in memory of Bryan Barrow

Wiffleball tournament supports foundation in memory of Bryan Barrow

Since the first week of school, seniors Hannah Satterlee, Maddy Rich and Molly Tidrick had been thinking of and developing a concept for their DECA project. With few guidelines given for the project, they decided they wanted to do something fun for the students at East. They also wanted to [...]

 

Sophomore believes many East students rely on designer clothes for their self image

Sophomore believes many East students rely on designer clothes for their self image

Peer pressure comes in many forms. At East one only has to look at the insignia on students’ shirts to see the unspoken peer pressure in the halls. One of the most apparent changes that students go through is their sense of style. Students go from wearing American Eagle and [...]