Marijuana activist have been pushing for the legalization of the use of the plant in the past decades. Although Washington and Colorado are the only states that have legalized marijuana or weed, 20 other...
To increase attendance, Celebrity Ball was originally scheduled on Friday, Feb 28 in order to reflect a more informal setting. However, due to bad weather days and rescheduling conflicts, the ceremony...
Praying they will do better than they did during rehearsals, seniors Antonio Ruiz and Joshua Okea wait backstage for their turn to perform. Yesterday, the music was too quiet, the microphones were not...
Smoke swirls above the restaurant table, but no one is complaining. It’s not nicotine being released into the air; instead it’s a sweet strawberry smell. It’s an electronic cigarette.
E-cigs are...
A potent ketchup smell lingers around the Print Shop as technology teacher Alx Eller and her daughter, English teacher Nichelle Keithley, eat their typical breakfast of hot dogs. Outside the school building,...
The new guide dog in the school is here and anxious to learn. Zola, a black Labrador puppy, will spend the next school year wandering the halls, and LIGHT counselor, Karen Gordon, will be the person in...
Science teacher Jared Monroe always starts off the school year by giving his new students a fair warning before they fall into their bad habits of falling asleep during class.
“Don’t fall asleep,”...
With the recent expansion of the school, the addition of the Apple room in the 500 hallway allows students to work with advanced technology. MST coordinator Emilie Baxter said the Apple room is a place...
Because the Health Science Technology program was getting bigger, the new HST area was built over the summer in order to accommodate the students in the program. HST teacher Kevin Hunter says the HST teachers...
In order to offer students more language opportunities, Garland ISD began offering American Sign Language and Chinese Mandarin classes at all seven high schools this year. Spanish teacher Barbara Hanna...
In the wake of the tragedy that occurred in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman took his mother’s life before arriving at Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot 26 students before shooting himself on December...
Fire drills are performed once a month. Lockdown drills and tornado drills are performed once a semester. But never has a total evacuation drill been performed. A total evacuation drill is scheduled for...
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