By Eleni Bow A tiny infant fusses in her mother’s arms. She’s not hungry or sleepy, she just wants to see. The shrill wails don’t stop until she is carefully readjusted so her bright eyes face the big, unfamiliar world around her. A year passes, and the baby is now a dawdling toddler. She plops…
The Making of An Athlete
By Riley Bratton With the 2021-2022 Delta school year drawing to a close and graduation just 3 weeks away, many sports seasons have been completed, leaving those senior players time to reflect on their high school sports career. Senior Michael Bilby started playing soccer when he was 3 years old. Just like any…
Tennis Court to the Food Court
By Macie Jones Getting ready to go to college and planning her future, but also living in the moment. Senior Sarah Haney is doing it all. She soon will be going to Purdue University and is taking the required classes to get there. She’s also having fun while playing tennis. She plans to go to…
Time to Move On
By Caitlyn Kirby Sibling relationships go through many ups and downs, but when it comes time for them to be separated, they find reasons to like each other. Many Delta seniors will be leaving their younger siblings at Delta when they go off to college. “There’s something special about a sibling relationship that’s just different…
Seniors’ Advice To Freshmen
By Gracie Hart As the Class of 2022 leaves, the Class of 2026 is coming in. Throughout high school the current seniors have learned many lessons. Some of the current seniors have advice for the incoming freshmen. Julissa Lawless: Julissa Lawless is a senior who in her free time enjoys art and works at Bob…
Friends Till the End
By Caleb Elliott Friendships are one of the things that make high school special. They can last for years and can reach over thousands of miles. For seniors Brenden Mead and Kaleb Rhonemus, the separation in college won’t be anything new. While they were in seventh grade, Mead moved to James Madison High School in…
A Man’s Best Friend
By Fancy Robbins As seniors go off to college, there are many things they have to leave behind. Unfortunately, sometimes it is their own best friend. Julissa Lawless is a senior at Delta. She has owned her cat, Brownie, for nine years now. Brownie is a 9-year old cat. She is going to miss the…
Top 20 Profiles
By Gaige Winchester (1) Kathryn Alexander (Full story at this link) (2) Bailey Thompson (Full story coming soon) (3)Ella Bright, third in the 2022 class, is also a cheerleader. She said if she could invite anyone to her top 20 banquet she would invite Zendaya because she has had a big impact on her…
All Things Go
By Grayson Zoller All good things must come to an end. High school, though its status as a “good thing” is highly contested, also comes to an end. And with the end of high school comes the end of many of the activities it offers. Senior Brad Shue has been swimming for nine years, and…
A Final Farewell
By Emme Townsend Walking into Delta High School for the first time as freshmen, the class of 2022 never would have expected what was soon to come. Between masks, quarantines, and months out of school, the seniors missed out on a full sophomore and junior year. One of the few positive outcomes that came out…