By Gaige Winchester The bell rings to end the class period, prompting students to fill the halls and teachers to come out to socialize. Mr. Adam Lennon walks two doors down to one of his colleagues and strikes up a conversation. The interaction flows so smoothly because his co-worker is also his wife. There are…
Technology in the Classroom: Teachers’ Thoughts on Chromebooks
By Grayson Zoller Technology is always changing and adapting to the situations we find ourselves in. At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, Delta High School decided to enter the modern age of education by upgrading from several single-class sized computer labs to a new idea for the school: one-to-one Chromebooks. This meant…
Delta Welcomes New Nurse
By Riley Bratton Although Mrs. Angie Carson is known for treating students, she also has been aiding old furniture. Mrs. Carson, who became the new school nurse at the start of the second semester, has been upcycling furniture for six years. Upcycling furniture is taking old, wasted or broken furniture and repurposing it into tables,…
Megan Hiday Fights the Battle with a Rare Form of Cancer
By Caitlyn Kirby At age 17 most kids’ lives consist of long days at school. Megan Hiday spends her days in and out of the hospital with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Megan, a junior at Delta High School, was diagnosed with CIC Dux4 Sarcoma on Dec. 1, 2021….
Lights, Camera, Action!
By Daisy Callow For three days in November, the young actors and actresses of the Delta Troupers saw their weeks of hard work pay off in their version of the play, Stefanie Hero. Not only did the students have a fun time creating the play, but some were also able to express their inner selves…
Seeing Double
By Chloe Newsome On the first day of school, the bell finally rang for the first period to be over. As the teacher’s first period students left and her second period students came in, she wondered why the same person was in her class twice. Little did she know they actually were identical twins. There…
Letting Their Flags Fly
By Nathan Sites They put their instruments down and pull their flags up. They look at the crowd, and then each other. They start to spin and wave their flags, being careful not to hit each other. The crowd then responds wildly for the newly returned color guard. The color guard is back at Delta…
Substitute Shortage
By Amelia Thompson On Friday, Nov. 12, there were 11 high school teachers out, and secretary Kelli Edwards was only able to get eight substitute teachers. This left us short by three. The situation was handled by cycling through the subs who had a prep period and having them fill in for the classes that…
Beautiful Blemishes
By Caitlyn Kirby The US National Library of Medicine reports that 100 million scars are acquired by people every year. Yet each one of them has a different story behind it. Each one has a different shape. Each one brings a unique feature to its possessor. Delta High School holds numerous people with…
The Ways We Celebrate Thanksgiving
By Grayson Zoller Thanksgiving is a time for family, food and fun. But sometimes people celebrate this American holiday with some twists on the traditional Thanksgiving formula. Thanksgiving is a holiday that is inevitably linked to Christmas in some way or another. For some, it’s watching Santa arrive at the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving…