News Articles

-by Jessica M.-

This past year we lost our Girls Basketball, Cross County, and Track coaches due to a

 variety of reasons which left us searching for replacements this year.

           With Cross Country at the beginning of the year we were lucky to be able to find someone to replace John Goodenberger in time. Jessica Ilertson has some prior experience in coaching volleyball and softball for one year each. In my short time interviewing her she makes up her lack of experience with enthusiasm for her team, “The team is doing wonderfully, I really mean that. We’ll make it to state this year.” That kind of enthusiasm really helped them out this season.

-by Becca A.-

The AHS marching band has been very successful this year. Even though they are a small band of 37 members, they have competed in Hillsboro, Everett, and at the state competition in Corvallis. They compete in pre-lims, which are a practice round, and if they make it to finals they compete against schools of all sizes. To prepare, they have to practice their music and know it by heart, and when they practice they have to imagine they are at the competition so they play to the best of their ability. They can’t look at the judges when they play; they just have to focus on the drum major, who this year is Sandy Baker.

 Their competition this year has been against schools that have a bigger color guard then our band, schools including South Ridge, Canby, Sky View, Liberty, and even a band from Idaho at one of their competitions. They are all schools between 4A and 6A. The band has not only been competing, they have been winning. They have brought home a first place trophy, a second place trophy, two percussion awards, a music award, a visual award, and a color guard award; all results of much hard work.

-by Jacob S.-

Early Sunday morning in Parkwood, Washington, Maurice Clemmons walked into a coffee shop and killed four police officers; he was shot in the stomach by his fourth and final victim.  The four officers who were killed were Mark Renninger, Ronald Owens, Greg Richards, and Tina Griswold. 

Clemmons had an extensive criminal record including, aggravated robbery, assaulting a police officer, and second degree rape of a child.  Allegedly he also punched a sheriff’s deputy in the face. Clemmons also forced his wife and young relatives to undress; claiming that “It’s okay, the world is going to end soon and I am Jesus.” 

-by Ben R.-

The U.S. Air Force is currently falling behind in the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) pilots.

With the growing uses of remote-controlled drones in the war in Iraq, the Air Force has been pulling pilots from planes and putting them behind a console to fly MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers.

The MQ-1 Predator is an unmanned aerial reconnaissance drone, which has the capability of carrying 2 hellfire missiles. The MQ-9 Reaper is a heavier armed version that can carry up to 3,000 lbs of weapons – the same as an F-16 fighter jet. The MQ-1 has a 115 shaft horse power engine, and the MQ-9 has a 950 shp engine which allows it to carry it large load of weapons and cruise at 3 times the speed of the Predator. Reapers and Predators can stay airborne for 20 hours before refueling.