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ARGO-7

ARGO-7

Leah Vollmer, Reporter/Writer December 9, 2025

I orbited the Earth for 23 years. From this height she is still beautiful. Her oceans were wrapped in clouds and her continents edged in green and brown. Though the colors filled my circuits with comfort,...

Color Has No Place in the Night

Abigail Leidel, Reporter October 9, 2024

She stares at the sky, Where the dark light grows, She breathes in the stars, Where the coming mornings line up in rows. She tells secrets to the moth eaten clouds And they carry her guilt, She listens...

I will not be hurt

Leo Nickerson, Reporter April 4, 2024

I am not your propaganda  I am not your enemy I am not  your fear tactic  I am not your scapegoat    My life is not your joke My life is not a lie My life is not marketable My...

Photo of the Earth inside a sunray taken from voyager 1 at 3.7 billion miles from Earth.
Photo Provided By NASA/JPL-Caltech

Beyond the First Voyage

Leo Nickerson, Reporter February 22, 2024

A cold expanse  Far from home  A gold record  A solar dream   Sheets of metal  Radio waves  No contact from home Through the void of space, I float   In search...

hiljaks jääma

Leo Nickerson, Reporter December 1, 2023

The girl ran in the ever-darkening hallways, a loud buzzer blared, signaling something she didn't want to see. The walls and lockers felt as if they were closing in around her. Her eyes frantically darted...

A City Reclaimed

Leo Nickerson, Reporter October 17, 2023

The landscape lay broken and cracked, concrete mixing with glass and steel. Monoliths to a time long gone, to a species war-torn and angered. A reminder of what nature had taken back. Grass and vines crawled...

My Furry Friends

Leo Nickerson, Reporter October 4, 2023

From dawn to dusk Daybreak to darkness The panda inside grows A fluffy tail and sharp claws   My footprint large My heart ever-growing Gayer than Elton John A sucker for paws   A floor...

Phoenix, the oldest horse on the range at 29 years old. Drinking from Krueger’s Pond on Oct, 9th. Heading into the Winter of 2021 looking great. What a moment to reflect on her past.

The Wild Pryor World

Forellen Bonham, Reporter November 19, 2021

I have never been in a more calming and stress-free place. Between the balance of life and death and the freedom and naturalness of the wild horses, it is a place of trueness.  It is a unique and genuine...

Short Story: Broken Rainbow

Short Story: Broken Rainbow

Maddie Potter, Fiction Writer May 18, 2021

     The wind swirled through the thick canopy above. A cool mist signaling the beginning of a storm fell on Grace’s cheeks as she toed along her 4-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter, followed...

Poem: Fish

Poem: Fish

Maddie Potter, Poet May 10, 2021

We’ve all heard the metaphor  High school, a school of fish Constantly swarming, changing, filled with life Fish tied closely to their school Reliant on the others for safety in numbers If...

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