Foreign Lands
Makayla Capilla, Writer
October 22, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Traveling out of your comfort zone can be frightening for some, but leaving your home country to live with strangers and speak an unfamiliar language is much more terrifying. Exchange students all over the world experience this feeling every year. They go to an unknown land where everyone looks, speaks...
Planning For The Future: Naviance
Avril Richardson, Writer
October 22, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Martinsville High School (MHS), after two years of debating and researching, they have decided to use a new program, Naviance. A site where students can learn more about themselves, and what they want to do when they are older. Students can find out information on colleges they want to go to, and they ca...
Painted Parking
October 1, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Not only has there been big changes happening inside of MHS, but recently there have been changes happening outside of MHS in the school parking lot. After years of seniors requesting for Dr. Sears to let them paint their parking spaces, he has finally agreed. “Year after year someone has always a...
MAMMA MIA, the Musical, Coming to a Theater Near You
Delaney Collier, Writer
September 14, 2018
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Student Life
Mamma Mia, the musical inspired and based on the songs by ABBA, set in a Greek paradise, is about a 20-year-old girl named Sophie, whose one wish is to have her father walk her down the aisle. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know who her father is, and frankly, neither does her mother, Donna. After find...
Uncovering the Truth
Sophia Jackson and Leah Fraser
May 15, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Imagine living with seven different foster parents scattered all across Indiana from the time you can remember. For Jenna Alexander, this is reality. Alexander explained that most of the families were kind and civil towards her, but, “...the only ones that weren’t nice were ones that were r...
How Dieting Affects Your Body
Crystal Bailey, Writer
April 11, 2018
Filed under Student Life
At one point or another, almost everyone has looked in the mirror and thought, “I could lose a pound or two.” Hundreds of dieting methods exist ranging from various exercises, meal plans, and surgeries. Diets can be a positive method to maintain overall wellness and a healthy weight and can have...
Turning Struggles into Determination
Spencer Skaggs, Writer
April 9, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
School isn’t always enjoyable. It is stressful, grueling, and sometimes boring; but it is very important. The grades that you make today can determine the colleges you can get into, which determines what kind of jobs you are qualified for, which can then determine the kind of life that you live. But...
Bang Bang Goes Your Heart
Alexa Shrake, Writer
March 14, 2018
Filed under Student Life
The new popular energy drink BANG from VPX Sports has taken its place on shelves all across America. Ranging in a variety of flavors such as Blue Razz, Lemon Drop, Champagne, Power Punch, Star Blast, Sour Heads, Cotton Candy, Black Cherry and Vanilla, BANG is starting to replace the popular Monster drinks...
Sophia Jackson’s Book
Hannah Johnson, Writer
March 2, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Imagine sitting down, a teenager in high school, and writing a book that will soon be published and on its way to the world’s eyes. This is what sophomore Sophia Jackson has been doing for the past year. She spent many hours working on her book, How Little We Know, over the summer and through the first of the s...
H&M Working to Reduce Textiles in Landfills
Allison Beliles, Writer
February 8, 2018
Filed under Student Life
If you go to your dresser right now and look through all the drawers, what will you find? It seems like the majority of us wear the same few items of clothing every day, and ignore the cardigan our grandma knitted for us for Christmas that one year, or the pair of moccasins we wore religiously in third gr...
The KETO Diet
Delaney Nunn, Writer
February 8, 2018
Filed under Student Life
Trendy diets fade in and out several times a year, but there is one diet that seems to be sticking around for good. The KETO diet, otherwise known as the ketogenic diet, is a no carb, no sugar, high fat diet. This diet supposedly transforms your body, making it adjust to burning off fat for energy, ...
Spike out cancer
Spencer Skaggs, Writer
January 11, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
“No School!” For most students, those words are a dream come true. But missing school has been no stranger to sophomore Bridget Balcerak. For her, missing school means getting shots, getting blood drawn, and virtually injecting poison into her body. High school students are busy. They hav...
Ken Casey, Writer
December 19, 2018 • No Comments
The Martinsville High School student body had their annual Cancer Awareness Week in October. Teacher Kristi Casey has been putting together this week for the past two years....
Styel Mechling and Makayla Capilla
December 10, 2018 • No Comments
Sports, tests, friends, family, multiple hours of homework, and even outside-of-school work are all factors in making a high school student tense. Sometimes it can feel as...
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Macie Crawmer and Macey Staley, Writers
January 11, 2019 • No Comments
CANDY CANES...a holiday favorite! Dating back to the early 1700s, a German immigrant, August Imgard, was said to have introduced the candy to Americans. In the hundreds of...
Alexa Shrake, Writer
December 7, 2018 • No Comments
It would seem strange that Americans choose to represent themselves as a wild animal to describe their political beliefs, but they have for centuries. A donkey is used to...
Macey Staley, Writer
November 14, 2018 • No Comments
As Artesians, we take pride in our school spirit and aim to exemplify our good character both in and out of school. As many of us know, overall school attitude and behavior...
October 31, 2018
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