Ramona Ripple, Reporter
November 7, 2024
Editor's Note (Friday, Nov. 8, 12:12 p.m.): Due to weather and travel conditions, many playoff games around the state are being rescheduled. GJHS' football playoff game is...
Landon Ward, Promotion's Editor
January 14, 2025
Students across District 51 will have Monday, Jan. 20, off of school for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. While many students don’t care much for the holiday and often are...
New GJHS auditorium balcony has a problem
Ramona Ripple, Reporter
December 20, 2024
Grand Junction High School's new auditorium is already needing modifications after only a few months of being up and running. The changes coming will be at no cost to GJHS. The...
OPINION: Return of the cool. The Math. And the Games
Eli Schultz, Reporter
December 19, 2024
Life, liberty and the pursuit of cool math games. This has been recognized as Cool Math Games is once again unblocked by the district. Since last spring we were forced...
Taylor Dickey, Reporter
December 18, 2024
If anyone has a family like mine, the holidays can be stressful as we all prepare for family visiting the house. This consists of deep cleaning the entire house (as if guests...
December 19, 2024
Grand Junction High School’s Student Council has grown to their biggest number of members ever. This year StuCo has 46 members, which is the most they have ever had...
OPINION: Eli Eats at Roar & Pour
Eli Schultz, Reporter
December 17, 2024
The Roar & Pour Coffee shop lives up to its name. They’re making me roar. About their food that is. The Roar & Pour Coffee shop at GJHS is a student-run business...
‘Tis the Tiger season for jazz
Freya Corbin, Guest Writer
November 14, 2024
The winter spirit is in the air for the Grand Junction Tigers band. Swingin’ Sweets 2024 will be held in the commons and cafeteria area on Wednesday, Dec. 4, from 6 to...
GJHS fall play set for Nov. 15-16
Ramona Ripple, Reporter
November 8, 2024
The Grand Junction High School theater department is putting on the musical ‘She Kills Monsters’ as both the first production this school year and the first production...
Kyra Finney, Guest Writer
November 1, 2024
On Halloween, the streets are busy with kids trick-or-treating and colleges are filled with college students having parties. But what is left for the teenagers to do? Halloween...
German exchange students at GJHS
Lincoln McQuade and Taylor Dickey
October 16, 2024
German exchange students will spend their time in the foreign lands of Mesa County for the next three weeks. “It’s more of an opportunity ‘cause he can come up here...
Marie Calkins, Lila Mottram, and Serenity Schmidt
December 12, 2024
This is the first episode of the Orange & Black student newspaper podcast, called The OAB (Orange and Black) and linked here. In this episode, the three senior editors...
Mercedes Candland, Reporter
May 18, 2023
Grand Junction High School sophomore Mayble Dean won first place at the 16th Annual Bank of Colorado Calendar Contest. This was Dean’s 3rd consecutive year winning...
Kori Antonides, Reporter
February 28, 2023
Grand Junction High School Photography 1 students submitted photos to the Colorado Teen Month of Photography Exhibit during the fall semester. There were 260 submissions...