That’s The Right Chemistry: Steve Pasquale’s Story
Article originally appeared in Talawanda Tribune’s Print Magazine Changing Perspectives, May 2019 That’s The Right Chemistry: Steve Pasquale’s Story Early Mornings. Intense Nerves. Trial. Error. And the long journey that brought him to THS. By Patrick Geshan Steve Pasquale has found the chemistry needed for swim and dive success at Talawanda. The established head coach […]
Endgame…for Seniors
Well seniors, it’s down to the last few months of our highschool careers. We are in… the endgame now. Don’t worry, we are not in the post Infinity War world where half the population is missing, we are just close to the end now. That’s right, we will soon have to be adults, sadly, but […]
Key Club Sponsored Super Smash Brothers Tournament on March 1, 2019
Key Club sponsored a Super Smash Brothers Tournament to raise money for charity. Junior Bricen Raynold won the top honors by beating sophomore Matt June in the final round. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_slideshow”]
Review: Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy”
Once superhero kids, now dysfunctional adults. One day 43 women gave birth, but none of them were pregnant that day when they woke up. Billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves wanted to adopt as many of those kids as he could… he only got seven. He decided to make them a crime- fighting division because they all […]
Galentine’s Day: “Ladies Celebrating Ladies”
Every year, during the dreary month of February, comes one of the most hated and debated holidays of them all: Valentine’s Day. The originally Catholic holiday has been widely celebrated in America since the nineteenth century as a celebration of romantic love. In recent years, Valentine’s Day has come under criticism, particularly for it’s commercialism […]
Lessons from the Field: From Starting Line to Tee Box. And a Rewarding Tale of Self-Growth.
It was late July before my junior year, and my family was on vacation for a baseball tournament my brother was playing in South Carolina. We were staying on a golf course not far from the beach. At the time, back in Ohio, I was missing my annual summer golf program called The First Tee. […]
Life on a Screen
Technology is a problem that can cause many issues in our life and we don’t even notice it yet. They can cause anger, anxiety, and much more. Many studies have been taken and their data points to us having a problem. A sort of addiction. If you walk down the street, down the bus aisle, […]
More Tattoos at Talawanda
OXFORD — If you look closely around the halls of Talawanda, you will see many people with ink on their skin. As with every person, every tattoo has a story behind it. Sophomore, Alexis H. got her first tattoo, a colon cancer ribbon, in seventh grade. She got it to remember her great grandma, who […]
Hiley’s Top Ten Songs of 2018
God is a woman – Ariana Grande “God is a woman” is a song that pretty much everyone is familiar with, and it had a top-ten peak on the charts in 17 countries. I think I love this song for the same reason that most people love it, because it is a ballad about the […]
This Article Is Triggering My OCD
A strange movement has reared its head in popular culture and seems to have traveled quickly from social media and television into the halls of Talawanda High School. A student doesn’t have to listen too attentively to hear a conversation in which someone inevitably claims that something is “triggering my OCD” or “giving me OCD.” […]