Things You Should Do as a Senior Before Dipping
Dacey Cervantes, Senior Spotlight Editor
January 16, 2020
Whether you are socially "not with it" or you're at every school event, there are some things you may have not done yet and should do. Graduation is right around the corner folks, and it's getting real serious right about now, but there's still time for you to have fun and make the most before dipping...
Flash Forest – A Billion New Trees by 2030
Amber Landon, Cougar Tales Editor
January 10, 2020
Flash Forest is a company that started in Canada that analyzed the way the timber companies plant trees and realized just how outdated it truly was. Their goals are to plant a billion new trees by 2030. The way that they plan to do this is with drones. The drones can map land, spray nutrients, and p...
Toyota Is Building a “City of The Future”
Andy Mourelatos, A&E Editor
January 10, 2020
On January 6th, 2020, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toyota announced its plans to build a prototype "city of the future" at the base of Mt. Fuji in Honshu, Japan. With technology consistently advancing and taking over so many parts of our everyday lives, the largest car company, T...
Raising Tobacco Purchases To Age 21
Alex Herman, Sports Recorder
January 10, 2020
"Tobacco smoke has been known to trigger and cause sudden heart attacks and deaths. Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. Smoking has been linked to many cancers including lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, and many more." Recently, on December 20th, 2019 President Donald Trump signed a $1...
Australian Fire Expands – How to Help
Nathalia Valdez, Associate Editor-in-cheif
January 10, 2020
Since early November, 24 people have been arrested for intentionally setting fires in the state of New South Wales. The fires have continued to burn all through-out December and into 2020. So far, the fires have destroyed more than 1,400 homes, killed 24 people, torched more than 15.6 million acres, and...
Who Was Qasem Soleimani?
Calvin Mueller, Headline News Editor
January 10, 2020
In his recent "claim to fame" by being the target of a US airstrike and recent assassination ordered by President Trump, Qasem Soleimani took the world by storm. So, who was he really? Directly after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Qasem Soleimani joined the Iranian Republican Guard (which is the main...
A Few Best Places in Tucson to Volunteer
Dacey Cervantes, Senior Spot Light Editor
January 10, 2020
Do you ever want to help out around Tucson? Do you ever just want to do something nice for others? Why not be a volunteer? Don't know where to volunteer in Tucson, well here are some ideas: Community Food Bank The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona does the most to help people access food no matter if it's meals for sch...
Non-Profit Safety Academy For Older Adults Held In Tucson
Nevaeh Castro, beat investigator
January 10, 2020
Free safety education classes, hosted by the Drexel Heights Fire District, will be held to inform older adults about fire and fall prevention, specifically targeting adults ages 55 and up. The January classes are Wednesdays — the 10th, 17th, and will repeat on Senior Safety Academy will be held from...
Puerto Rico’s Worst Earthquake in 102 Years!
Odyssey Larsen, Beat Investigator
January 7, 2020
Disaster has struck Puerto Rico again. After the tragic effects of Hurricane Maria in September of 2017 that left thousands homeless and without necessary resources, just as the nation was rebuilding and starting to be okay again, another disaster strikes. This earthquake reached a whopping 6.4 magnitud...
The Deepest Canyon On Earth
Alexis Bitnar, Fresh Face Editor
January 6, 2020
The deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier. According to a new map by White Continent, it reveals the shape of bedrock under an ice sheet on the glacier. It's recorded to be deeper than the Dead Sea, in Asia, which is 997 ft deep at the deepest...
10 of the Craziest & Weirdest News Stories in 2019
Alexis Bitnar, Fresh Face Editor
December 14, 2019
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