Four Day School Weeks
April 18, 2011
Copy by Austin Mu On Apr. 11 2011, the Wolf Point school district diligently approved the four-day school week proposal allowing the students schedule to last an extra forty minutes while disbanding Friday school days altogether. The class B school district is now the largest district in the state... Read more »
Viral Celebrity Rebecca Black
April 12, 2011
Copy By Austin Mu 13 year old Rebecca Black has recently become an internet sensation with her new pop song “Friday”, and what viewers call the worst song ever. The single was released Mar. 14 2011 and is still continuing to get global recognition online and in the media. While her video has been... Read more »
Academic Dinner Showcases School’s Finest
April 8, 2011
Copy by Ada Kelly Photo by Jordan Purinton This year’s Academic Dinner was another success. The night started off with an introduction to all of Great Falls High’s 4.0 GPA students. Seniors Jack Boes, Justin Gomez, Taylor Reese, Trace Timmer, Catherine Gilligan, Rachel Gorsuch, Will Strauss... Read more »
Blood Drive 2011
March 17, 2011
Every year Great Falls High collaborates with the American Red Cross based in Great Falls to hold a blood drive in our school. This year we had almost 60 students sign up and nearly every one of them attend. One of the doners Danielle Morgan was there, ” I really didnt plan on giving, I didn’t... Read more »
Spread the Word to End the Word
March 7, 2011
On Thursday, March 3rd, students were handing out free cookies during lunch to stop the use of the word retard. When students took a cookie it meant they promised not to use it anymore. The cookies had the letter R with a line through it signaling the banning of the R Word. The idea is to replace the... Read more »
Festival Empowers Cultural Awareness
March 4, 2011
Copy by Shandon Bilbrey Photo by Jordan Purinton The only way to have acceptance and awareness to a culture an individual needs to experience the qualities that form a nationality. Every year our foreign classes, Spanish, French and German, start the second semester with an educational and entertaining... Read more »
New York Texting Might Take A Turn
February 11, 2011
Copy by Jordan Purinton Walking down the street in rural Montana, it is not uncommon to find numerous people walking and texting. Doing this in New York however, soon may find sitting in a jail cell. Senator Carl Kruger has introduced a bill that if passed, it would make it illegal to walk while... Read more »
Bombing in Russia
January 25, 2011
Copy by Jerimey Franks Today in Moscow, Russia at Domodedovo International Airport ambulances and public transport vehicles race back and forth, between the airport and crowded hospitals, carrying the bodies of the dead and wounded after an explosive detonated inside the airport. Reports say an explosive... Read more »
Alltel Turns To AT&T
January 10, 2011
Copy by Jordan Purinton After much debate and controversy, Alltel Communications has been bought out by at&t. This deal is worth $2.35 billion and will provide 3G coverage to many rural areas that run on Alltel such as Montana and Wyoming. This will also bring the long awaited iPhone to Great... Read more »
Liu Xiaobo, Imprisoned Chinese Dissident, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
December 13, 2010
Copy by Shandon Bilbrey Dec. 3, Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in Oslo, Norway. Neither Xiaobo nor his wife Liu Xia was allowed to accept the award declared by China. Xiaobo before being arrested was a professor of literature, and is serving an 11-year sentence... Read more »