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Staffer Reviews New Restaurant: 77 South

Staffer Reviews New Restaurant: 77 South

New restaurant brings up-scale ’70s style and taste to the 2010′s.

 

Girls ACL Injuries are Becoming More Common

Girls ACL Injuries are Becoming More Common

Trends in high school girls tearing their ACLs have parents and doctors concerned.

 

School Organizations that are Still Open to Join

School Organizations that are Still Open to Join

Several clubs at East are still meeting regularly and are welcoming new members.

 

Junior Plays the Bass and Records in Upper-level Bands

Junior Plays the Bass and Records in Upper-level Bands

Junior Brooks Sargent enters his jazz-funk-reggae band practice, sets down his rectangular bass case and leaves through the multicolored door of Waldo Guitar on Wornall. He returns with three amplifiers he had been keeping in the back of his car for gigs and other band practices that he attends throughout [...]

 

Natasha’s Mulberry and Mott Bakery Review

Natasha’s Mulberry and Mott Bakery Review

Staffer reviews a local bakery.

 

District Further Discusses Closings

District Further Discusses Closings

Approximately every 10 years, the Shawnee Mission School District finds something for taxpayers to vote on in order to improve the schools. The last bond was voted on and passed in April of 2004 to build a new, more usable library onto Mission Valley Middle School. It took two years [...]

 

The Inside Scoop on East’s New Exchange Students.

NICOLE What were you most looking forward to upon your arrival in the United States? To meet my family, start school, make new friends, doing fun things and I want to live the American Life. What were you best ‘known for’ where you are from? The girl who laughs the [...]

 

Gold Medal Guitarist

Gold Medal Guitarist

Senior wins district blues guitar competition and advances to regionals in Illinois.

 

Junior pursues love of Asian culture in a summer trip to South Korea

Junior pursues love of Asian culture in a summer trip to South Korea

Before her freshman year, junior Susie McClannahan was content with the Western Hemisphere.  But since her trip to China after freshman year with Honors World Geography teacher John Nickels, she has dreamed of returning to Asia. “I thought she liked China and was very interested,” Nickels said. “She soaked everything [...]

 

East is renovating the old pond and Environmental Education area

When students return to to East after a much needed summer vacation, one of the final pieces of the school’s renovation puzzle will be set. Over the summer, three ponds will be added to the campus, two will be used in the environmental courtyard, while another will replace the gigantic [...]

 

The Earth Fair shows how East can conserve resources and ‘Go green’

Earth Fair 9 is April 17 at East.

 

Gym Teacher applies her Dance Lessons to Life Lessons

PE teacher Ogden uses her history in dance in her attitude towards life today.