By Jacob Williams It’s the moment everyone has waited for. The school year is wrapping up and finals are approaching rapidly. Seniors don’t have much longer with the things they like about high school. Senior Sabrina Cheek will miss the creativeness that acting gives her. “I am a big character actor,” she said. “When I…
Sweet Deliveries
By Jacob Williams On a damp, cold morning before school starts, Sweets and Salvations members group up around 8:10 a.m. to decide who goes upstairs or downstairs. Everyone meets in Mr. Kurt Griffis’s room to start passing out treats to the teachers. Sweets and Salvations is a newer club sponsored by Mr. Griffis. He used…
Fatigued by Obstacles
By Jacob Williams A three-sport athlete should be able to hustle to the lunch line or run up the stairs without getting winded, so when junior Cooper Bratton felt out of breath, he knew something was wrong. At the age of 2, Cooper was transported by a LifeLine helicopter to Riley Hospital for Children in…
Christmas Chaos
By Jacob Williams Soon after Thanksgiving, it’s time to set up the Christmas tree. A couple of years ago, Gabby Knight found herself in a nightmare. The Knight family had to go to a different tree farm from where they typically went. “It seemed like a good place and the trees were really good,” said…
Life of Opportunities
By Jacob Williams There is more than what meets the eye with the two new custodians who were hired this year. Robert Barker, better known as Rob, is not an exception to this. It all started at a match in Winchester. Barker was officiating a volleyball match when he looked and saw a man wearing…
Summer Adventures
By Jacob Williams Cities, mountains, small towns, and many trees are what sophomore Matthew Shears experienced this summer. He went on a trip in the beginning of June which lasted for two weeks. His family first traveled to Seattle, Wash., and then down the West Coast to start off his summer. When Matthew went to…
Too Many Decisions!
By Jacob Williams Graduating seniors have many things on their minds and one of them is what college to go to. One senior had a semester’s worth of deciding on what college he thought suited him best. Caleb Elliott is that senior who had to make a difficult decision on which college was best suited…
Special Students
By Jacob Williams Special needs students aren’t as different as some of us might think. They might think differently but they are like other students. Mr. Tyler Harris and Mr. Shane Conley are special education teachers here at Delta high school and they both stated that when you go and talk to special needs students,…
5,115 Miles Apart
By Jacob Williams Yaroslav Kobernyk remembers his thoughts when he heard the first explosion at 5 a.m. in his apartment in Ukraine. He thought it was thunder. Yaroslav, who goes by the nickname Yarik, soon realized after the second explosion that he was wrong. Russian planes had dropped two bombs on army bases near the…
Lunch Lady Land
By Jacob Williams Did you know that the FBI has been involved with the school cafeteria? This is just one of the many interesting stories that you will hear from the lunch ladies. Six years ago is when the FBI got involved with counterfeit cash. “We had counterfeit cash given to our cashiers and the…