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How to Bake a Perfect Graduation Cake

How to Bake a Perfect Graduation Cake

What’s the perfect sugary centerpiece for your graduation party gastrointestinal cornucopia? Why, a graduation cake, of course! This from-scratch all-natural recipe for “Lemon Chiffon Flavorexplosion Doublerainbow Beautymelt Ice-Cream Cake Miracle” was our Editors’ favourite:   Serves: Ten Bake Time: 30 minutes   Ingredients: Generic Chocolate Cake Mix (4 lbs.) Red #456 (14oz.) Fluorocarbon Isooctane (3 [...]

< 14.5 Questions with Danielle Mann

< 14.5 Questions with Danielle Mann

I had the chance to sit down with one of the famed sophomore English teachers at Talawanda High School. She is known for her unique teaching abilities and notorious for her sassy tone and sarcasm. Don’t let first impressions fool you. Some students have claimed to be intimidated by her personality, like when I met [...]

14.5 Questions With Jeff Yuva

14.5 Questions With Jeff Yuva

I had a chance to sit down sit down with science teacher Jeff  Yuva, THS’s “facial hair chameleon,” and hallway musician with Mr. Mattox. Here is what we talked about. V.S:  Where were you born? J.Y: In La Port, Texas. It was a suburb of Houston. I’m not proud of it, because I don’t agree [...]

Tribune Tries It: Ruzzle

Tribune Tries It: Ruzzle

Several students around THS have recently been interested in a game that tests your ability to find as many words as you can out of a total of 16 letters in two minutes.  Ruzzle allows players to play against others to find out who truly is the best. Ruzzle is a game that tests to [...]

14.5 Questions with Carol Morison.

14.5 Questions with Carol Morison.

I was lucky enough to catch a interview with Carol Morison before the end of her last year at Talawanda.   Joseph DeVaughn: What activities do you partake in outside of school? Carol Morison: I quilt, I ride motorcycles, over the summer I got a Ural, a motorcycle with a sidecar. I read, and I [...]

The Essential Zombie Survival Plan – Movie Edition

Zombies: Man-eating harbingers of doom, which would surely erase humanity from our peacefully orbiting planet. These brain dead monstrosities have become an American fixation, teenagers (mainly boys) layout and compare their survival plans, producers rake in profits from the latest zombie blockbuster, zombie apocalypse survival classes are now available at Michigan State University and ACE Hardware recently [...]

Fourteen and a Half Questions with Ted Caudill

Fourteen and a Half Questions with Ted Caudill

I had the chance to sit down with one of the coolest, spunkiest and loud teachers at THS, Mr. Caudill. Here’s what we talked about. Where’s your place of birth? Greensburg, Pennsylvania. How long have you been at this teaching thing? Fifteen years. If you could go to any place in the world, where would you [...]

Bryce Harper to Retire from MLB

Bryce Harper, the crown and jewel of the Washington Nationals, has decided to hang up his cleats after a tumultuous three week long tenure in professional baseball. Harper, 19, made the announcement at a press conference held at his new condo at an assisted living facility in Chevy Chase, Maryland on May 16th. “The time [...]

10 Guidelines to Getting Through the School Year

As the 2011-2012  school year comes to an end, there’s many different ways of coping. Studying, cramming in assignments, senioritis, slacking, you name it. Here are some helpful tips on getting to the end of the year. 1. A healthy breakfast is key. Peanut brittle and tacos are a sure start to the day. 2. [...]

Tribune Tries It: Arizona Arnold Palmer Vs. Diet Snapple Half & Half

Tribune Tries It: Arizona Arnold Palmer Vs. Diet Snapple Half & Half

With Summer right around the corner, the need for a refreshing beverage is at its highest level of the year. With the rise of popularity of half tea/lemonade drinks one no longer has to choose between either iced tea or lemonade. But which is the better choice, Arizona’s Arnold Palmer or Snapple’s diet Half and [...]

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