As the school year officially gets underway, organizations across campus start to re-activate. A prominent organization on campus, Key Club, has re-established itself with a new name this year, but its goals are steadfast. The Interact Club, sponsored by PALs teacher, Ian Jaschek, is gearing up for a...

The books collecting dust on our shelves haven’t always been allowed to live there, and although it seems strange to imagine our homes without classic’s like, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there was a time when these revered...

                  Netflix’s new TV series Squid Game hasn’t only been a hit in South Korea, it’s taken the globe by storm. Released on September 17th, 2021, the Korean thriller has reached new heights beyond ever previously expected. Topping itself at #1 in 90 countries since its...

After a year of fundraising and grassroots campaigning, the monument relocation committee founded by the Bastrop County Commissioners Court has faced another obstacle in moving the two monuments commemorating the Confederate States of America and its soldiers on the county courthouse’s lawn.  After...

Sitting in the restroom waiting. Waiting for her life to change. It took two lines to make her feel like a different person, to instantly think like an adult. There were many and different options, but she knew the right decision for her. She knew if she had chosen the other options that she would be...