By Fancy Robbins There are many things to take into account when finding a new place to work. How far is it? How much will you get paid? But for Mrs. Haley Hissong, her love for God helped her. Mrs. Hissong is a new biology teacher at Delta High School. “God has called us into a…
By Daniel Tokar In the Gravley family, serving our country is a time-tested tradition, Senior Jimmy Gravley’s older brother, Kaleb, served in the Marines for five years. His father served in the Marines for more than 20 years. His grandfather served in the Army for 30 years. “So I am just following the footsteps at…
By Brylee Beckley *All places are not finalized until the end of the 2022-2023 school year* (1) Rebekah Thorpe, Feature story coming soon on this website (2) Zach Gullion, Feature story coming soon on this website (3) Cody Dickin, currently third in the 2023 class, plans to study chemical engineering at Purdue University. In the…
By Grayson Zoller Rylee Ritchie, a former student at Delta Middle School who would have been a graduating senior this year, is remembered fondly by students and teachers alike. She was murdered in late April 2019 in her Farmington neighborhood home. Investigators determined she and her mother, Denise Miles, were both murdered by Casey Ritchie,…
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 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,…
By Macy Weddle Standing there, sweating. Feeling as still as a rock. Yearning for applause. Haiku, free verse, sonnet and other forms of poetry are not just for English class. Some students are turning poetry into a competition. These students don’t see poetry as just an assignment, they see it as a beautiful…
By Luke Williams Around 40 years ago, Delta’s marching band was formidable, going to state level competitions with both their band and color guard. However during the 1990s, the band slowly started to get less and less attention, until the marching band was something of the past. Now that the marching band has been reestablished,…
By Matthew Shears When people need a way to relax and wind down from school, some may choose to go out and run, others may decide to join a sports team, but these students and teenagers go to gaming for a release. At the start of this school year there was an E-Sports club for…
By Grayson Zoller If some people are to be believed, every year the freshman classes get consecutively worse. So why does it seem like the school is remaining the same? Maybe it’s because it has remained the same, and the only thing changing is people’s perception. The idea that the younger generation is ruining society…
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