By Caleb Elliott On a Saturday at 8 a.m., a senior is already up with his father getting to work before the heat of the day. A variety of tasks have to be completed for the day before they can finish and head home. Isaiah is a three-sport athlete – football, wrestling, track and field…
By Eleni Bow Pressure is a compelling force. Seemingly affable friends that pressure you to rebel can wreck a reputation. Pressure is how lustrous diamonds get made. She was under pressure to rebel as a freshman, but something caused her to convert that pressure so she could become a Deltonian diamond. Her story of transformation…
By Megan Hiday At 17 you should feel like you have your whole world ahead of you. You’re a junior or a senior in high school, probably have a job and you’re working on going to college. At least that’s what I thought my life would be like, until everything around me changed. I went…
By Mia Torres You can hear the muffled voices from another classroom when you’re with them. The wall of silence feels difficult to break. You wonder what runs through their mind as they sit there. Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author, once said, “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” There are many examples…
By Cameron DeckmanMaking friends can be hard for many people. Getting to know them, talk to them and hang out with them can prove to be tough. It can be especially hard for students who have special needs, but it doesn’t have to be. At Delta High School, and many other schools, there’s an after-school…
While we are having seven subjects per semester, in Vietnam students must take 12 subjects per semester. Thao Phan, a junior at Delta High School who started school in December, came from Tỉnh Bình Phước,Vietnam four months ago with her family to the United States to live with her uncle. Not knowing English well is…
By Kinsley Wilson It was freshman Ryleigh Warner’s first day at her job at McDonalds. She came in that day ready for the experience and hopeful to make some money. She started learning the reins and figuring things out. But when she went to make her first McFlurry and started to spin it, the drink…
By RJ Townsend Moving to Indiana can be a change. Sometimes the change is the landscape or the smell in the air. But how difficult could the change be if you ended up having to learn a completely new language? The change can be easier when people are on your side. At Delta High School,…
By Ashton Phillips It is a humid, sunny day in July. The Delta football team is on the scorching hot turf getting ready for the upcoming season. Three of the hardest working players are seniors Palmer Samuels, Blake Jones and Dylan Manor. The three seniors are not just hard workers but great leaders, too, according…
By Emme Townsend She’s up early and at the school more than an hour before the bell rings sending students to first period. This morning, she has a Chick-fil-A Leaders Academy meeting at 7:30. During her student resource time, she has a meeting with the committee of RIley Dance Marathon. Right after school, she reports…
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