School Acceptance of Transgender Students
OXFORD – As our generation gets older and more educated, everyone seems to be learning more about issues such as gender and sexuality. Different areas of daily are becoming more accepting to changes and making accommodations to provide for “different” people the same way as everyone else. A highly debated subject in this matter is […]
National Parks Meet National Conflict
Across the U.S., a massive portion of profit from tourism comes out of the national parks that are flocked to by visitors — about 282 million per year, according to the National Parks Conservation Association. The recent U.S. government shutdown has affected the state of American parks more than many have predicted. Unlike the 2013 […]
Setting Stone Winter Coffee House
Oxford — The Setting Stone winter coffee house will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9 in the Talawanda High School cafeteria. For those of you who enjoy poetry, fear not for the acts range everywhere from poetry readings to band performances. Tickets will be on sale at lunch during the week of […]
THS Mock Trial Competes at Districts
HAMILTON, Ohio — On Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 two Talawanda Mock Trial teams tried the case of State of Buckeye v. Adam Smith at the Butler County Courthouse. Talawanda Team Sith competed against Kings Edible Arraignments and Lakota East Thunder. Sophomore Kei Brown won Outstanding Attorney and senior Amily Zhou Wang won Outstanding Witness for […]
Max’s Top Ten Favorite Albums of 2017
King Krule- The OOZ I can’t say I expected to enjoy this album as much as I did, and I enjoyed this album a lot. It’s not often seen a piece drip with so much style and have just as much substance to back it up. Archie Marshall continues to be an intriguing character, but […]
Pushing for More APUSH Textbooks
OXFORD — Sophomore AP US History students are facing a dilemma. Since the school board’s adoption of a practice five years ago, the funding for course materials has been changed. The practice was adopted in an attempt to justify the one-to-one program that Talawanda has adopted. The one-to-one program has provided individual Chromebooks to every […]
College Basketball 2017-2018: Early Season Wonders
With being only a week into the 2017 college basketball season, there is more than enough to be excited about especially after a thrilling 2016-2017 tournament that ended with North Carolina winning it all for their sixth NCAA National Championship. With so many good teams and great players, it will be interesting to see what […]
Who is the FFA President?
Oxford, OH– The roots of the FFA originate from a time when boys were losing interest and leaving the farm. Walter Newman, 1925 became the Virginia State Supervisor of Agricultural Education, wanted to seek a solution to this problem he and three other staff members of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Agriculture Education Department proposed forming […]