Combustbooks?
Dylan Archer, writer
October 9, 2019
Monday, September 30th, all MHS students were called out of their 5th-period class and told to report to their homeroom. Students soon found out there was a safety concern regarding the new Chromebooks. A student's Chromebook battery overheated causing it to catch fire. Most computers have lithium-ion...
Amazon On Fire
Ken Casey, Writer
October 4, 2019
Throughout this year, the beloved Amazon Rain Forest has continued to degrade because of several fires that have blown up. Though only getting attention during August, the fires started in January. Two-point two million acres burned down this year taking away 20% of the world’s oxygen supply with it....
Trump Looks to Ban Vaping
Savannah Baugh, writer
September 12, 2019
Throughout MHS and countless other high schools across the country, vaping has become an epidemic that is now very difficult to extinguish. Schools like ours nationwide have made extensive efforts in an attempt to combat this fairly new and dangerous trend amongst teenagers. Because of the increasing severity of this i...
Fentanyl Deaths Rise More Than 1000% in the Past Six Years
Dylan Archer, Writer
September 10, 2019
Within the past decade, the extremely potent opioid fentanyl has increasingly played a part in fatal overdoses in the United States. According to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report, Fentanyl-related overdose deaths have grown by more than 1000 percent from 2011 to 2016. Fatal fentanyl...
Operation Football Sunrise!
Ken Casey, Writer
September 5, 2019
With football season underway, Channel 13 News will be visiting Martinsville High School on September 6th, 2019, for their weekly Operation Football Sunrise. Students will meet on the football field at 5 A.M. along with the marching band, cheerleaders and JV football players. The event will be broadcast on ...
Blackface Controversy
Savannah Baugh, Writer
May 9, 2019
Recently, the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, has been under fire for photos that have resurfaced of him with his face painted black from a 1984 medical school yearbook. In the photos, he seemed to be mocking African-Americans by having black face paint on, with fellow medical students surrounding hi...
Ebola on the Rise
Becca Clark, Writer
May 9, 2019
It’s back, bloody, and mobile. Ebola is on the rise and spreading fast. However, there’s hope for humanity: a potential cure that comes in two waves. The first option is to prevent Ebola, and the second is to attack the virus once it has begun. Both are new options that the outbreak from 2014-201...
The Memory of Luke Perry
Ken Casey, Writer
April 5, 2019
Television actor Luke Perry sadly passed away on Monday, March 5th, 2019. At only 52 years old, Perry suffered from a stroke on Friday, March 1st, 2019. He was surrounded by friends and family the day of his passing. Best known for his roles of Fred Andrews on the CW Riverdale and Dylan Mckay on B...
Breaking Out of Isolation
Makayla Capilla, Writer
April 4, 2019
North Korea is a small country above South Korea and next to China. It is one of the most isolated countries in the world; no one knows what goes on inside except for its citizens. Each year, there is an increasing number of North Korean defectors - people who flee the country in hopes of a better li...
History Repeats Itself
Alexa Shrake, Writer
April 4, 2019
In a frenzied fight for freedom, many people have died and lost their family members while reaching for an almost seemingly impossible dream. Thousands die each year in an attempt to cross the border into the United States. Most recently, in December 2018, a caravan of migrants attempted to cross t...
The Tragic Case Of Sylvia Likens
Alice Pickering, Writer
April 4, 2019
In January of 1949, Sylvia Likens was born, making her the third child of five to her carnival working parents. The family was poor, her parents had a rocky marriage, and her younger sister, Jenny, had polio. Despite this, Sylvia was happy and would often make money ironing or babysitting for family frien...
Pesky Pest Problem
Becca Clark, Writer
March 21, 2019
There’s a plague spreading over Indiana. It swarms the state with small, red bodies and six little legs, but their size does not make them an unworthy opponent of the state. These little pests are bed bugs, and once they’ve moved in, they won’t be easily persuaded to leave. According to the ...
Styel Mechling, writer
October 9, 2019 • No Comments
Hair is an interesting thing. It can be curled, straightened, crimped, braided, twisted, and even shaved in the most peculiar ways. But, there is a certain type of hair that...
Abby Salak, Author
October 7, 2019 • No Comments
Worried about how to pay for college? Don’t be. You can get free money from the government that applies to every household, no matter your income, from a program called...
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Ken Casey, Writer
August 27, 2019 • No Comments
Anxiety and stress are things that every high schooler comes to face at least once in their high school career. There are many ways that one can cope with these feelings,...
Makayla Capilla, Writer
April 4, 2019 • No Comments
Selena Quintanilla-Perez was a Mexican-American star born in Lake Jackson, Texas. Her father raised her to follow her dreams and pursue music. Quintanilla is remembered as...
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