The greenhouse is a positive way to educate students and spark interest, according to science teacher Chad Scholten.

For sophomore Mina Siebert, meeting a four-year-old was one of the most beautiful moments of her life. All it took was a smiling face and young eagerness for Mina to be completely smitten with the little...

I’ve been a Judah and the Lion fan for quite some time now, and what never fails to impress me is their continued ability to adapt to modern music trends while still keeping their roots firmly planted...

Dear Mom and Dad, How do I put into words the eighteen years of wisdom, love, faith, and so much more? How do I describe the ways that you’ve nurtured me and just loved on me? How do I say that you...

Simply put, I was in my happy place this weekend. Far, far down Fulton St. in downtown GR, I sat in the corner of the cafe and contently watched the bustle of life. To be in a room where contentment and...

There is something almost therapeutic about swiping and scrolling through feeds with glazed eyes, double tapping every so often when the mood strikes. It’s like giving yourself what seems to be a...

In high school, numbers are important, sometimes disproportionately so. An 89.89% in a class seems like the end of the world, leading students to desperately plead with teachers to have the grade rounded...

In the moments where no one was listening and the power of pretending was magical beyond belief, FHC graduate and MSU sophomore Joe Freihofer discovered profound joy in simple sports talk. Through...

The sound of a single gunshot reverberates through the night that once flowed with happiness and love. The camera pans over to horrified faces and the heavy gasps as a victim sucks in what appears to...

The steady crunch of my rubber-soled shoes echoes down the trail as I leisurely tread down the weather-beaten path in North Carolina. The warbling chirp of birds breaks through the crisp morning air, and...

In November 2004, coach and athletic director Clark Udell led the boys soccer team to victory in the State Championship finals, also just a few months later leading the girls soccer team to a State Championship...

"[I decided to join the United States Navy] about a month ago. College is really expensive, especially art college, and I didn't want to be in debt for my whole entire life. The Navy and the military,...

While basketball's March Madness has consumed the minds of most sports-inclined people, I’ve stayed oblivious and perfectly ignorant, likely because of my lack of understanding for basketball. Instead,...

Name: Jacob Wallace Grade: 12 Role: Dan 1. Have you ever been in the musical before? If so, for how many years? "Nope! [This is the] first one for me." 2. What are you most excited about for...

Name: Aaron Jachim Grade: 12 Role: Judah 1. Have you ever been in the musical before? "Yes, every year since I came to the high school [I've done a musical], and [I've done...

Name: Tess Bond Grade: 12 Position: Head of House 1. How many years have you been involved in theater?"This is my second year being involved in theater." 2. What are you most excited about for...

Name: Sarah Buchanan Grade: 11 Role: Assistant Student Director 1.What are you most excited about for the show? "This show has so many talented people in it who have all worked so hard...

Name: Lindsey Lunt Grade: 12 Role: Wife 1. Have you ever been in the musical before? If so, for how many years? "No, I have never been in the musical before." 2. What are you most excited about...

Name: Mark Kemp Grade: 12 Role: Jacob 1.Have you ever been in the musical before? If so, for how many years? "Yes, I’ve done the musical every year since I was a freshman, the first...

Name: Maria Finelli Grade: 12 Role: Wife 1.Have you ever been in the musical before? If so, for how many years? "Yes, my first musical was Peter Pan last year." 2. What are you...

Name: Zach Guikema Grade: 9 Role: Benjamin 1.Have you ever been in the musical before? If so, for how many years? "I haven’t been in the musical before." 2. What are you most excited about...

Name: Barry Crown Grade: 12 Role: Head of Tech 1.How many years have you been involved in theater? "I have been involved in the theater since my freshmen year working all of the shows...

Name: Ashlyn Fitch Grade: 12 Role: Narrator 1. Have you ever been in the musical before? "Yes! I have been doing musicals since I was in 3rd grade in community theater, and [I did] all four years...

Name: Meredith Vanskiver Grade: 11 Role: Wife 1. Have you ever been in the musical before? If so, for how many years? "I've never been involved in FHC Theatre before, so this is my first year!" 2....

Life on Earth, in its essence, is water. With it, the world learns, innovates, and succeeds; without it, the world cracks, crumbles, and vanishes. In the U.S., it’s often difficult to imagine a life...

For every year, every decade, every lifetime, there are seasons and patterns of life. For the senior class, we’re itching to go beyond the walls of the high school, patiently waiting for that wave...

Putting his creative energies and business talents to use, in an effort to entertain himself and others, young Jared DeMeester started selling logs with his sister on the side of the road, claiming that...

I’m all about second chances. If at all possible, I try to give people, places, and things the benefit of the doubt, usually cutting them some slack after a bad first go. With that being said, unfortunately,...

"Right now, I'm working on my little silhouette, and I have to write words on it to make it look pretty. I'm also taking another art class here, and we're doing our still lifes. For that project, I'm doing...

In the wise words of singer Kacey Musgraves, “you can’t be everybody’s cup of tea, nobody’s everybody’s favorite so you might as well just make it how you please.” We live in a society...

Nestled next to and living in the shadow of locally-renowned Lyon Street Cafe is Nantucket Baking Company. And although it may be flying under the radar, its lack of fame has no bearing on the quality...

Nearly every weekday for the past thirteen years of my life, I’ve woken up in the morning for school. Moaning and groaning, bumping and grumping, I would shuffle out of my house, apprehensive of what...

FHC Dance Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Qn-DkEbzI&feature=youtu.be Winterfest Court Lip Syncs 2019: Parker David and Myah Leavenworth: Will Clancy and Claire Baguley: Stephen...

Women’s rights. The Earth is dying, and no one cares. Pick flowers, not fights. Every teenage girls’ VSCO feed is littered with these types of saying, republishing and posting them all so...

Wringing his hands with nerves, sophomore Sam Musgraves walks to the center stage of the Fine Arts Center at FHC’s Random Acts of Talent (RAT). While his nearly overwhelming stage fright might’ve held...

He who dies with the most toys wins, or so that’s what Malcolm Forbes often said. However, contrary to what Forbes so firmly believed, Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizer who has recently taken to the...

A man contemplates and prepares to murder his wife after finding her in bed with another man. With scissors poised above his head, the man intends to kill the two lovers. An outburst of a “PreCrime”...

Every morning, whether it be before school or on a sleepy Saturday, I brew a pot of coffee. And in every sense, it is the perfect brew, with four scoops of dark roast flavored with heavy shakes of cinnamon....

Amiable chatter filled the room as the Class of 2019's football players soaked up the last few bittersweet moments with their teammates. Quieting the chatter and capturing the attention of his audience,...

"Throughout the summers, my family would go up north and rent different cottages. It would always be on a lake, and sometimes, we'd rent a jet ski or just tour around. I was always with my family, and...

"Freshman year, I started getting sick, and the illnesses I would catch would get more intense. Then, the summer between freshman and sophomore year, I caught pneumonia for the third time in one year,...

“You’re a thief.” “Give me credit. Period.” “Lol stop stealing my swag. Word.” Tweet after tweet, comment after comment, Ariana Grande’s controversial new single “7 rings”...

"You know how people do biking? My thing's scootering. I don't know why exactly why I ride my scooter; I just did it a lot as a kid. I don't know why, but I just keep doing it. I have an adult scooter...

I push and pull. I wheeze then breath deeply in. I put one foot in front of the other in a continual pattern. My brain is screaming in pain. And yet, I still am only able to settle into the last place...

While junior Andy Travis’s knack for learning and school, among other things, is his own talent, the inspiration behind it actually stems from the classic story of the American Dream, as embodied by...

Over the years, I’ve only minorly been a fan of the band Young the Giant, vaguely following their performances and their song releases. Because of this, for me, finding out three months later that they...

In California, among other states, dry heat is a constant, and intense wildfires rage to the point of it simply being a given. That unfortunate fact made the recent disaster Camp Fire all the more distressing...

Dismal storm clouds fill the blank sky as this December screams dreary February weather. Day after day, Michiganders wake up to frigid temperatures and dimmed sunlight, barely getting enough vitamin D...