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The Harmful Impacts of the Taylor Swift Hype Machine

The Harmful Impacts of the Taylor Swift Hype Machine

Lynzie Dooley, Social Media Manager February 27, 2024

Taylor Swift is a beloved singer and songwriter worldwide but is mainly known in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. Her recent tour  The Eras Tour, which brought much attention to her music...

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Student Council Gives Us Insight About the Souper Bowl

Bianca Leiva, Co-Editor February 8, 2024

The Souper Bowl is a fun competition between Idaho Falls and Skyline High School to see which school can collect the most cans to donate to the Community Food Basket. The organization's goal is to help...

Tetris Beaten After 34 Years

Tetris Beaten After 34 Years

Cruiz Byers, Reporter January 30, 2024

After 34 years of endless practice and age-long tournaments, Tetris was finally beaten in a record breaking play through by Blue Scuti. Now, while this isn’t as important as say a national disaster or...

How Lethal Company Combines Horror and Comedy

How Lethal Company Combines Horror and Comedy

Nathan Seabury, Reporter January 30, 2024

Lethal Company is an indie horror game that has become the internet’s latest obsession. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of clips have been released on platforms such as Youtube that, in my opinion,...

Toys for Tots 1947-2023

Toys for Tots 1947-2023

Bianca Leiva, Co-Editor January 3, 2024

Toys for Tots started in 1947. It was created by Major Bill Hendricks and his wife Diane. She had a few handcrafted dolls and asked Bill if he could deliver them to an agency to support children in need....

Death of Matthew Perry Affects the World

Death of Matthew Perry Affects the World

Hallie Breshears, Reporter November 17, 2023

Matthew Perry died on October 28, 2023, at 54 years old. He was loved by millions of people all over the world. He was found in his hot tub, non-responsive, after he got home from playing pickleball. He...

The History of Halloween

The History of Halloween

Bianca Leiva, Co-Editor October 31, 2023

Halloween has its roots in the Ancient Celtic festival of Sabian in Europe. Sabain is a religion people celebrate to honor many gods. They proceeded to call themselves the Sabians. Every November 1st people...

Then and now: The music to our ears and hearts

Then and now: The music to our ears and hearts

Connor Schmidt, Reporter December 16, 2022

The music cultures today are starting to disappear. Most of what you hear on the radio are hip-hop songs, rap, and some rock. You never hear some genres like classical, swing, EDM, or industrial music...

Taylor Swift: Expectations Shattered and History Made

Taylor Swift: Expectations Shattered and History Made

Josh Dandelski, Reporter | Social Media Manager November 17, 2022

At midnight on October 21st, 2022, global pop star Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated tenth studio album, titled ‘Midnights.’ Only three hours later, Swift would release the deluxe edition...

Holeshot at round one of WSX

World Supercross Debut

November 1, 2022

As of March 1st, details for the first-ever round of the World Supercross(WSX) Championship were revealed by SX Global. The date for the first round was announced to be October 8th, 2022. The first round...

Kendrick Lamars BET performance.

Kendrick Lamar Dominates the 2022 BETs

November 1, 2022

As of October 5th, 2022, Kendrick Lamar officially takes a sweep of the BET Hip Hop Awards, taking home six BET Awards including artist of the year and album of the year for his newest project, Mr. Morale...

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Why So Many People Use Windows XP Today!

Diamond M. Garcia, Editor in Chief 2021-2022 May 26, 2022
Last year when I wrote the story of Windows XP’s Development history back in November, a number of people and close friends reached out to me and were curious about whether or not I use Windows XP. Although it is very nostalgic, I don’t use it for obvious security reasons. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find out that many end-users still use Windows XP.
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