Holland Primm, Editor in Chief
December 8, 2016
Standing among a maze of hanging clothes, junior Kinlee Nalley surveys her options, searching for the trendiest items. Upon finding a combination of pieces that she likes, she tries them on together, snaps pictures at various settings around town, and uploads them to her fashion account on Instagram.
“My goal for the account was to build a po...
Malorie Wiederkehr, Review Editor
December 8, 2016
Gathered around the table surrounded by appetizing and mouthwatering food such as turkey or ham, stuffing, or various types of pies and desserts, many families take the time to sit down for a sizable Thanksgiving meal with their loved ones.
Thanksgiving, a holiday always commemorated on the last Thursday of November, is usu...
Payton Primm, News Editor
December 8, 2016
Blueprints and seating charts line the tables, and the itinerary for the week is emailed out to the entire family a month in advance. Junior Megan LaMendola and her family load up their Honda Odyssey minivan with snacks, games, and people in preparation for the annual eleven hour trek to Columbus, Ohio.
“My family has a maj...
Payton Primm, News Editor
December 8, 2016
Junior Olivia Moore steps up to the podium, full of excitement, nervousness, and confidence. She has spent weeks preparing for one of the biggest debates of the year: the Speaker Series. Hours of work have all led up to this moment, and as she takes the floor with a wide smile on her face, she is elated to finally show the a...
Hunter Cloud, Sports Editor
December 8, 2016
Students filled the rotunda wearing balloons tethered to their ankles for a game of last man standing, or in this case, the last man with a balloon. Kids ran around, avoiding challenges, often spinning in complete circles to save their balloons. They screamed as each balloon popped one by one into debris.
This would look...
Ashton Moreland, Reporter
December 8, 2016
At eight years old, junior Pablo Manon’s life was uprooted and planted in the dirt of a foreign country- one that promises prosperity, growth, and opportunity. The bustling streets and ancient architecture of Mexico City were replaced with the hills and valleys of Northwest Arkansas, and over time, the smell of chicken coop...
Riley Neil, Features Editor
December 5, 2016
Fourteen years ago, David and Susan Layman woke up and found the walls of their house painted bright, hot pink with four guilty looking four year olds with pink paint stained on their fingers. Seniors Aaron, Ally, Dawson, and Stephen Layman have been getting into trouble and helping the others out of it since birth, seeing t...
Kirsi Grafton, Reporter
December 5, 2016
Junior Kami Carpenter scrolls through her Twitter feed and she stops to click on a video. The hashtag #Fayettevilledetestweek appears at the start of the video followed by senior Jake Lance fumbling a football while wear a purple Fayetteville bulldog shirt making fun of Fayetteville’s football and student section.
“Faye...
Holland Primm, Editor in Chief
December 5, 2016
In an auditorium filled with expectant students, parents, and grandparents, exchange student Helen Weber takes a seat at the piano at the center of the stage. The crowd hushes excitedly in recognition. “She’s the girl that sang that awesome song during PrimeTime. Just wait, this song is incredible,” students whisper. Yet Weber rea...
Riley Neil, Features editor
December 1, 2016
It all started with a blank Microsoft Word document and a few cool fonts on a bulky 2008 computer that got senior Andrew Gillihan into creative writing. He had wanted to try out all the different fonts, so he started messing around and typing out words. His messing around soon turned into him actually writing something real...
Emma Kate Bockelman, Reporter
October 21, 2016
It is September 24, Saturday night, when the tragic news of Kyler Williams’ car wreck hit the city of Springdale. When Laura Scirto and Lucy Arce, two moms who painted the Har-Ber field house doors, heard about the news, they decided one way to honor him was to scrap their original game day idea and pay tribute to him thr...
Riley Neil, Features Editor
October 21, 2016
Fear: thick, uneven breathing and sweaty palms. The sound of a woman's scream that is played in every horror film and a forest at night covered in shadows. It is an emotion that everyone can picture with the way that is captured in October through haunted houses, scary movies, and recently, clowns running up and down the streets...
