By Willem Hummel, Marquette High School
• October 7, 2022
Cate Sanazaro lived and taught preschool on Sanibel Island for eight years, and it's where her children grew up.
She said she enjoyed the beaches, shelling, fishing and other outdoor activities unique...
By Braden Lefevre, Canyon High School
• October 1, 2017
He walks into the convention center to an overwhelming array of images. A young woman sits and weeps with her baby in her arms. A doctors frantically treat as many victims as possible. A homeless man sits...
By Brayden Johnk, Granite Bay High
• October 1, 2017
When Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 25, it set off one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history.
As the eye of this Category 4 storm approached...
By Katie Felton, Lovejoy High School
• October 1, 2017
With high speed winds blowing through the trees, a sudden downpour of rain pounding on the roof, and the electricity out, Natalie Stark was without her husband and left alone to keep her kids, along with...
By Keegan Williams, Liberty High School
• October 1, 2017
With wind speeds reaching 130 mph and leaving at least 30,000 people without power, Hurricane Harvey is the strongest hurricane to hit landfall in the U.S. since Hurricane Rita in 2005.
Beginning as...
By Katelyn Spivey, Canyon High School
• October 1, 2017
A young woman walks through her flooded home. Her belongings swim in the water sloshing around her ankles. Her gaze wonders from one destroyed belonging to another until it settles on a small shoe —...
By Samara Anderson, Carlsbad High School
• October 1, 2017
This time of year, as many of you may know, is hurricane season. It began approximately at the beginning of June and ends before December. Hurricanes mainly occur on the east coast, but even Carlsbad,...
By Reid Pitts, George Ranch High School
• October 1, 2017
Common Threads LCISD is a donation center that provide supplies for families that live within the LCISD school district. Families in need of anything, from cleaning supplies to backpacks, come to Common...
By Alexis Grimaldo, George Ranch High School
• October 1, 2017
Coldplay is a Grammy award winning band that formed in the 1990s and is still blowing up the billboards with their hits and collaborations. They have produced beautiful songs such as "Paradise," "Viva...
By Leah Harrell, Newsome High School
• October 1, 2017
Hurricane Irma had everyone preparing for the worst as the storm came racing towards Florida as a category five. Windows were boarded up, sandbags were distributed, and people were forced to leave the...
By Madeline Sanders, Lovejoy High School
• October 1, 2017
It is cruel. It is broken. It is menacing.
But it is beautiful.
The world we know today is full of heartbreak. Every day, headlines broadcast stories of catastrophic hurricanes, shootings, wars,...
By Jalen Andrews, Thayer High School
• October 1, 2017
After the devastation our country's coastal areas have suffered through this hurricane season, it is great to see the "helping hands" that come to the victims' aid. People from all over the country have...
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![Senior Tiffany Gibson has dinner with her parents and her nine year old sister. Gibsons family has been her largest source of support throughout her treatment process.
[My dad] helped me through it. He was the one who’d take me to my doctor’s visits, he was trying to make me try to take my medication on time, even though he’d get angry when I didn’t take it. I had to do blood work, so he would always find out. He would always try to get me to take it and remind me, Gibson said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/92iA4Tg7fGWMhmk9DKWf7Q6UQQ4p0LYeBobwwvV7-900x672.jpg)
![The cardiovascular system is painted on the wall outside the biology classrooms. The nicotine in vape and e-cigarette products have been proven to negatively impact the lungs, contributing to the concern the vaping epidemic will affect the health of youth for years to come. “There is an epidemic in our school of under-aged nicotine consumption… I think that this year that they did a really great job by bringing in Breathe NH… it was much more effective: there was a lot of data, statistics, infographics and [comparisons] especially to cigarettes, said Mary Martin 20, student council president.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/vapingphoto.jpg)
