Major Accomplishments
OXFORD–You take a deep breath and count to four. You can’t see the crowd because of the stadium lights glaring down into your eyes, but you know there is a full friday night stadium staring at you. You keep your head high and your eyes set to kill- and you’re walking out onto the field. […]
Volley for the Cure!
Volley for the Cure! By: Camry Winsted-Neeley Oxford OH– The Butler Tech/Talawanda FCCLA chapter hosted their annual Volley for the Cure fundraiser during the varsity volleyball match Sept 28, 2017. They raised over $1,100 and the proceeds went toward Breast Cancer Awareness. Chapter officers Brealyn Wagers, Caylor Jarvis, and Hannah Cress along with other FCCLA […]
Toco Madera Performs at THS
On Friday Sept. 22, 2017 THS students enjoyed a performance by Toco Madera for the Latin American and Caribbean UniDiversity Festival and sponsored by the CAWC–The Center for American and World Cultures at Miami University in Oxford, OH. The group performed Traditional Latin American music in the PAC seventh period.The music was very enjoyable and […]
Hype for the Apocalypse
“The Walking Dead” is an incredibly popular show on the television channel AMC, and the fanbase is most certainly not extinct here at Talawanda High School. The television show takes place in a post apocalyptic America, where a County Sheriff, Rick Grimes, is forced to survive in a world ruled by zombies, or, as they […]
The Game’s Afoot
Oxford, OH — It’s December 1936 and broadway star WIlliam Gillette (played by senior Tyler Boyd), admired by the world for his lead role in the famous play Sherlock Holmes has invited some of his colleges to his Connecticut Castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, […]
The Poet in the Schoolhouse
When you think of poets you think of Edgar Allan Poe or Ernest Hemingway. You wouldn’t think a great young poet would be sitting in a high school teaching teenagers about poetry but he is. Quentin Russell is the Artist in Residence for our school this semester. He runs the Poetry Club which is after […]
Eclipse of the (Almost) Century
Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, people in the Talawanda School District were just a few of the millions that were watching The Great American Solar Eclipse. It was estimated that anywhere from 1.85 to 7.4 million people traveled to see the path of totality on the eclipse day. South Carolina was estimated to bring in 547,00 all […]
Ready! Set! Honk!
This spring, Talawanda High’s drama department performed a wonderful production of HONK! under the direction of Ryan Steffen. This was Steffen’s first musical since he resumed the directorial position, and it did not disappoint. Audiences were treated to a blend of classical musical theatre composition and a rural storyline that hits close to home for […]