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Kainoa Cunningham 18 speaks at the walk out.

Stand Up and Walk Out

Delaney Kidd, Editor in Chief March 21, 2018

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th left 17 students and staff dead- making it the deadliest mass school shooting since 1999; the Columbine school...

Mock Trial Team Qualifies for State Tournament

Makayla Moran, Reporter March 7, 2018

  On the weekend of February 24, the Grand Junction High School Mock Trial Team competed at the regional tournament placing second. Team members Alexia Thompson and Zeron Lawson were also awarded...

Dream of a Championship

Madi Martinez, Editor in Chief February 21, 2018

Kieran Thompson is a varsity 106 pounder for the number one ranked wrestling team in Colorado.  Grand Junction High School has an extraordinary team and it isn’t easy to be on varsity.  Thompson has...

Sideline to Superstar

Chavis Nourse, Reporter February 21, 2018

One of the Tigers key basketball players was sidelined with a season ending injuring in just the seventh game of this 2017-2018 season. Derek Shaver was looking to step into a leading role for the Tigers...

Meant to Be

Callie Shea, Students and Culture Editor February 21, 2018

Every year in the winter and fall the cheerleaders and poms team at Grand Junction High School run a program called Tiny Tigers.  Twenty to forty girls come out every year to be a part of tiny tigers. ...

Lunchtime Chaos

Callie Shea, Students and Culture Editor February 21, 2018

Lunch is a time that all students value and use to see friends, go home, do school work, or anything they have time to do during the period. Some students will agree that it is much too short while other...

Not Just Your Average Teenager

Mackenzie Younker, Reporter February 21, 2018

High School is challenging and rigorous enough for so many of us, now imagine the stress of High School on top of worrying about where your next meal is coming from and where you’re going to sleep. Homelessness...

Culture Beyond the Classroom

Kobey LaDuke, Reporter February 21, 2018

Comparative Religions is a social studies elective taught by Mr. Whiteford during 2nd and 6th period, but this is not a class you would find in your usual school. This class covers religions and beliefs...

Artistic Buzz

Annika Sisac, Reporter February 21, 2018

  The art room is silent at lunch except for the slight murmur of Jonny Cash playing the guitar from the far radio and the sounds of full concentration and imagination coming alive. Ariel Hurley...

Scott Lang Clinic

Brayleigh Snyder, Photographer February 21, 2018

Scott Lang is a band teacher, writer, and motivational speaker. He came here to Grand Junction to talk to the high school bands. About two hundred band students came to learn about better leadership...

Aggressor to Oppressor

Madi Martinez, Editor in Chief February 16, 2018

Society defines a bully as someone who mistreats others. It is not just an act of shoving a person into a locker or being called a silly name or being teased about simple things. It is much more than that....

Playing in the Spot Light

Annika Sisac, Reporter February 14, 2018

Melody Jacobsen a senior at GJHS will weld her musical talent on the violin under the golden stage lights and the 83 foot vaulted ceilings of Carnegie Hall in the Stern Auditorium. Jacobsen, with her prodigious...

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