White Water Horse Barn
Whitewater State Park in Liberty, IN, has camping, hiking, fishing, boating, swimming and horseback riding. It became the 16th Indiana state park in 1949. The saddle barn owned by Mark Chenoweth includes hayrides, guided trail rides, sleigh rides and nine miles of trails accessible from the barn and the horsemen’s campground. Mark Chenoweth, the owner, […]
Tackle for the Cure
Come out and enjoy a night of football for a good cause. Tackle for the Cure will be held on Oct. 9, 2015 at 7:00p.m at Talawanda High School. Tickets can be purchased at the door: $7 for adults and $4 for students. Wear pink to support breast cancer awareness month. This is a home […]
Academic Challenge Team Advisor, Scott Schmid, Prepares for a New Year
Academic Challenge advisor and science teacher, Scott Schmid, is preparing for a new year. Last year, with Schmid’s guidance and advising, the team went to the state level to compete for the championship. Schmid said he is hoping this year’s team of four competitors will make it just as far. During competitions against other schools, […]
Root Yoga Opens in Uptown Oxford
For Katie Noble, head instructor and manager of Oxford’s new Root Yoga studio, yoga is more than just a practice, it’s a way of living. “It’s been a wild journey, but I’m loving every minute of it,” she said At the age of eight, Noble went to her first yoga class at the Fitton Center […]
New Guidance Staff at THS
Talawanda has recently undergone change: teachers, athletic coaching, students, and administration. One of the biggest changes was the change in the guidance staff. Two of the counselors from last year retired, while the other counselor moved. The start of the 2015-2016 school year started with three brand new counselors: Scott Davie, Linda Stanger, and Savannah […]
The Study of College Baseball Recruiting
Baseball is offered at almost every college in the United States. Being recruited to play for them isn’t easy, though. There are over 470,000 High school athletes playing the game, and only around 80,000 of them go on and play college ball. That is less than 30%. Colleges look deeper than just a student athlete’s […]
Oxford Ice Cream Shops Offer Wide Variety for all Tastes
In most towns, ice cream parlors aren’t hard to come by, and Oxford is no exception. Oxford has four ice cream places uptown: three on High Street and one on Spring Street. Choosing among these places can be difficult, especially since each one is different. The following guide shows the good, bad, and everything in […]
Fermata Nowhere Starts its Seventh Year
“I would say that my rehearsal techniques fit somewhere between ‘1950s Texas high school football coach’ and ‘Marine drill sergeant passing a kidney stone,’” said choir director Timothy Pearson when asked about the intensity of Talawanda’s own pop a cappella group, Fermata Nowhere. The group got its start during the 2009-2010 school year when Pearson […]
THS Baseball Left With No Coach
All three coaches from the THS varsity baseball team “saw more opportunities at Lakota West,” athletic director, Wes Cole said. According to Cole, at the beginning of September, head varsity coach for THS, Greg Leurck, chose to leave because Lakota West was a more convenient commute for him and his family. Noah Zipko, the assistant […]
Preble County Pork Festival
Walking into the pork festival you hear announcements for a pig race. You walk around and look at all the different booths, ranging from jewelry to country crafts to food spices. The changing aromas catch you off guard. At one point it smells like candy, at another point like pork. Attracting people from near and […]