Whether flying a jet, teaching in a classroom or performing in Carnegie Hall, Dr. Susan Carter-Fricks does it all. Carter works with students as a voice coach in both choir and musical theater. She began…
His room is filled with the forest green of the Incredible Hulk. He zooms through the hallways on a scooter again repping the purple and green of his favorite Marvel character traveling to and from his…
This Valentine’s Day, love was not the only fire burning. This past Monday after cross country practice ended at 4:45 p.m., sophomore David David spotted a grassfire off the road from the west exit of…
It happened in a scrimmage on Feb. 13. The first out of two they have every week during the February training camp for the Youth National Team (YNT). Cambry Patrick focused while the swarm of girls in…
Every day, Angie Carraway greets students into her eighth grade history classroom with a warm smile and enthusiastic, “hello.” The bright pink hue of her clothing is a reminder of her triumph over…
The players’ helmets and pads move up and down on the forest green field; students fill the rows of desks, learning the next time period in world history. For about nine years, Austin Coachman was “coach…
They say a picture paints a thousand words, but I’m beginning to believe that no amount of words can do justice to what I have to share. As I gaze around my dimly lit bedroom, the trinkets and troves…
Four girls gather together and prepare for the last event of the day. They hold their personalized purple leopard baton between the four of them. This is their weapon. The sun is set, and the pressure…
A mass of high school girls break from their coach’s meeting to begin the warm up. Between their tall heads, the tiny, five-year-old head of Kailey Littlefield appears. She runs the two laps with the…
Too often do audiences in our era get caught up in the glamorous and action-focused aspects found within movies, with Hollywood slowly evolving into more of a film factory vying for box office success,…
In the Texas World Speedway track, an eight hour endurance race in foggy weather created “Miracle Man Michael Martin.” The Valvoline Suzuki team was shooting for their 100th win when the bike crashed….
The conditions have to be perfect: above 55 degrees, not windy and not cloudy. He puts on his bee suit, a pair of gloves and two smokers. Sophomore Gabriel Ezell opens up his beehive. He puffs the smoke…
Trot. Canter. Gallop. Walk. Three horses and three women. Hammer could be mistaken for a massive chocolate bar from the Rocky (Road) Mountains. Morez and NY Crossfire (Twix for short) are built for endurance…
It was the week before finals, two years ago. It was 4 a.m., and the world had a silent hum. Senior Chelby Inman, however, was still awake at a sleepover with her friends, a momentary respite from the…
In the heat of the summer, the doorbell rings. A small, Venya Raju holds a sign-up sheet explaining that she is conducting an art class this summer for first and second graders. By the end of the summer,…
Ramadan fasting will begin on April 23 and end on May 23 this year. For Muslims, this lunar month is a sacred time to focus on bettering one’s self as well as to celebrate with family and friends.
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With the Coronavirus pandemic provoking panic across the globe, the American Generation Z population experiences its first real crisis. With our own eyes, we are experiencing an all-encompassing, controversial,…
Nov. 5, 1968: James M. Collins (R) beats Robert Hughes (D) to represent Texas’ 3rd Congressional District on Capitol Hill, flipping a seat that had been a Democratic stronghold since the Civil War.
Annastacia Daugherty walks into her master bedroom with her son, Owen, by her side. Tim Daugherty lies sick in bed, his mind foggy. Annastacia shows Owen to Tim, talking about his new “big boy pants,”…
At some point in time, we all go through something that questions our ability to overcome. One of our teachers here at LHS finds himself facing another trial in everyday life, but how he carries on is…
Fourth-grader Zoe Grall doesn’t walk, but glides up a ramp in front of a captive audience of family, friends and well-wishers. As red ‘record’ buttons are pressed on phones, Zoe mounts a quarter…
Maybe this is the time to write this all down; maybe it’s not. I don’t know how my thoughts on all of this are to change, and I still can’t say how it all will feel when it ends, but I can say that…
Throughout the span of the 11 years I’ve been in the American education system in a Texan suburb, I’ve consistently been one of the few, if not the only, Asian people in a class. People always look…
Michael Goddard is crying. Not because someone died. Or because he’s exhausted. He’s crying because he has just found out that he is Lovejoy ISD’s new superintendent.
Dressing into her red uniform top that reads “Mexico” across the front in white letters, senior Celeste Soliz begins to get ready for the game. She slips on her white pants and red cleats and takes…
From Hot Topic to Orphan Train to Grease, the theatre department has provided both laughter and tears for the community. But the drama students here also have a competitive side. Michelle and Andrew take…