News
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High school class creates gifts for shelter animals
The holiday season was all about giving, and six high school students definitely didn’t fall short this past December. On Dec. 16, six of Mrs....
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Senior set to begin work at Capitol
As the second semester rolls around, Olivia Habinck, political guru, will be beginning her first steps out of high school working as an intern at...
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Students use extension project to create improvements in Peet girls bathrooms
Recently, feminine hygiene dispensers were added to the girls bathrooms at Peet, after it was discovered that Holmes and the high school have already had...
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English classes putting skills on trial in mock courtrooms
Peet junior high has been partaking mock trial the past three years in select English classes. Brian Suiter is the teacher who uses this activity...
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Luther College loses legendary director
Dec. 21, 2016 is a date that many Luther college students, alumni and fans will never forget. Weston Noble, long-time director of the Luther choirs,...
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Family, friends reflect on loss
Sitting in their parents home, surrounded by their belongings that trailed the hallway or were stored in boxes, brothers Steve and Matt Slykhuis sat next...
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Volunteer Club resurrects peer tutoring
A service from the past has been given new life. The Volunteer Club is bringing back the tutoring program that had been offered previously at...
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Planning for Perfection: After studying results from previous session, senior puts together perfect 36 on ACT
Ivan Kozlov didn’t particularly feel optimistic about his score when he was leaving the ACT in October. He even believed that he had received the...
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Students finding variety of ways to volunteer
For junior Shelby Hartwig, volunteering at Hansen Elementary school was not only an opportunity to help out younger students, but a way for her to...
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Former coach, wife killed in car accident: Staff, family, friends cope with loss
A CFHS coaching and teaching legend and his wife were killed in a car accident in Kansas on Tuesday Dec. 20. Jerry Slykhuis, 73, and...
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Umemezie earns 10th National Youth Poet Laureate title
Three hundred people sit in a crowded room. In front of them, sits a stage with four young faces alongside the host of the event. One by one each...
