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Erich Bohn

Erich Bohn, Reporter

Erich Bohn is a senior Reporter for Student Media and has been on the Newspaper staff since his Freshman year. He has dipped into a variety of reporting areas since joining and hopes to continue writing quality content. He has two dogs, plays soccer video games, and paints small miniature soldiers in his spare time. He is excited to write for CHSToday for his last year at Conifer.

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Elijah Blanton presents a draft of his AP Research presentation in order to receive feedback and to practice presenting to an audience. Students had less than three weeks to start and finish their presentations, of which several hours were spent practicing in front of others to gather constructive criticism. These practice presentations occurred all over the school as the slideshows were finished and the deadline approached. “The presentation itself is pretty straightforward,” senior Elijah Blanton said. “I’d say most of it comes down to knowing your stuff and having a plan you can stick to.”

The Research Behind The Presentation

Erich Bohn, Reporter
April 18, 2025
The district builder view of New London. Rather than building individual buildings like in the original game, players build entire city districts. There are five different kinds of districts, each centered around a resource or a utility. The districts include housing districts for citizens to live in, food districts to grow food or hunt and raise animals in, extraction districts to mine resources, industrial districts to refine resources into usable materials, and logistics districts to supply and coordinate exploration teams and trade routes.

Frostpunk 2: The City Must Not Fall

Erich Bohn, Reporter
April 12, 2025
The front desk of the Ripple restaurant, formerly known as JJ Madwell’s, is a temporary feature. A more robust entryway is planned in what Ripple hopes will improve the customer experience and make Ripple a more inviting location for Conifer residents. However, due to issues with permits, Ripple will be focusing on the outside of the building for now. “We might not be able to touch the building this year,” Lole said. “So we are going to be putting most of the money into the patio.”

What’s Next for Ripple?

Erich Bohn, Reporter
March 7, 2025
A judge (Zach Brennan) oversees the court and attempts to keep the practice trial on track while the witness delivers her statement. The tournament trial will be held in front of a real Jefferson County judge and teams will be judged on presentation, knowledge, improvisation, and logic. Though the Conifer team is not alone in training for the event, as the team has several lawyers helping them with court procedures and arguments. “We’ve got another parent who is helping out with logistics and getting everybody organized as well,” Benish said.

The Court Is Now In Session

Erich Bohn, Reporter
November 11, 2024
Lieutenant Titus of the Ultramarines climbs over a hill of dead Tyranids with a chainsword in hand. Following his capture and imprisonment by secret police of the Galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man on false charges of Chaotic corruption, the former Ultramarine Captain must hold back an unending swarm of Tyranids and deal with a mysterious cult whose plans may threaten dozens of inhabited systems while at the same time learning to once again trust his Battle-Brothers in his never-ending crusade against the Tyranids: a hivemind dedicated to devouring the entire galaxy and scouring it clean of all life with untold quintillions of soldiers made up of little more than armor, teeth, and claws.

The Emperor Protects!

Erich Bohn, Reporter
October 14, 2024
JJ Madwell’s following its closure. The closing of JJ Madwell’s marks the end of one of the oldest businesses in the Conifer area. However, it seems as though Tony Buccelli, the former owner of JJ Madwell's, may not be done yet, as some say that he already has plans for the future. “He’s thinking of coming to work at the school… Or he's gonna go into construction with some of his friends,” sophomore and Tony’s daughter Payton Buccelli said.

New Soft-Serve Set to Make “Ripples” in Conifer

Erich Bohn and Macallan Barber
September 6, 2024
Cartner prepares to open the evening by directing the first song played at the Night at the Cafe. Plans for the Night at the Cafe to continue under Laura Sarché are in place, allowing for the event to continue after Cartner's departure, with several students already having made preparations. “I want to do more volunteering next year for the Night at the Cafe,” sophomore Maggie Sullivan said. “Serving, prepping food and stuff like that."

Cartner’s Last Night at the Cafe

Erich Bohn, Reporter
April 23, 2024
Carissa Maseberg gives AP Statistic help to several students during Lab. Though AP Statistics is a difficult subject and a college-level class, her teaching has helped many students to understand and internalize the processes and strategies needed to be successful in her class. “She’s helped me figure out how to do math,” Roberson said.

Missing Maseberg

Erich Bohn, Reporter
March 11, 2024
A company employee walks the halls of a factory in hopes of finding valuable scrap. Players have the opportunity to explore several different moons, each with a different outdoor environment and entity spawn chances in addition to a randomly generated indoor facility. More dangerous moons have more valuable scrap but also have a higher chance of hostile creatures appearing. Photo courtesy of Zeekerss

Lethal Company: Collect, Sell, Die, Repeat

Erich Bohn, Reporter
February 20, 2024
Students dance to the music of the various artists during the Winter Formal. The DJ was the same one who DJ’d Homecoming and the music selection ranged from quiet, to pop, to rock anthems. “I really enjoyed how the bottom floor was really quiet, the dance floor was intense, and the top floor was still loud but not too loud.” Dalby said.

Winter Formal Returning For Good?

Erich Bohn, Reporter
January 30, 2024
Cast members practice their lines and go over songs at Evergreen. “I don’t know the show super well but it’s really funny,” Griffiths said. “It was honestly surprising how funny and enjoyable it is.” The play is going through read-throughs, with some changes to the script being made at the request of the cast and the directors of the show, but the script should remain largely unchanged in its main ideas and jokes.

A Production Both Kooky and Spooky

Erich Bohn, Reporter
December 13, 2023
Senior Hayden Hinton at the beginning of the school day in Lobo Lab sports a child-sized backpack that displays characters from the Disney film “Encanto”. These small backpacks vary in color and appearance, but one constant seems to be that the school bag must be several sizes too small for its wearer.

Why Are Seniors Wearing Odd Backpacks?

Erich Bohn, Reporter
October 17, 2023
Teachers have adopted phone pockets to deal with the possibility of students being on their phones during class. Now that the rules have been changed, these pockets have become more common throughout the school. However, teachers do have some freedom in how they choose to enforce the new rules. “I get that a teacher’s classroom is their classroom and I want them to feel independent and that they can do what they need to do,” Dean of Students Nick Colangelo said.

Teachers Weigh-In on New Phone Rules

Erich Bohn, Reporter
September 13, 2023
New London embraces a New Order. To keep the heat flowing the people must be kept in line using prisons, round-ups, guards, propaganda, torture, and public executions. The path to the New Order is a slippery slope, one that begins with noble intentions but ends with totalitarian rule over the city in the name of necessity. The choice between Order and Faith is integral to Frostpunk as it gives the player the option to sacrifice their morality to make the game easier.

Frostpunk: The Frost is Coming

Erich Bohn, Reporter
May 5, 2023
A twin sunset is visible on a planet orbiting a gas giant. A squadron of fighters can be seen above, practicing maneuvers for a coming war. Each solar system in Stellaris is randomly generated, with a varying number of planets and even suns, each with their own resources and possibilities.

Stellaris: THE Galaxy-Spanning Empire Builder

Erich Bohn, Reporter
April 26, 2023
These posters were put on the Orange Buckets used in the Orange Bucket drive on April 7, which raised several thousand dollars for CLUB and its efforts. This is only one of the ways the organization has been attempting to procure funds. “We are also trying to get a grant from the Gates family foundation,” Zalfa said.

Updated Press Box Planned

Erich Bohn, Reporter
April 17, 2023
The fundraiser (poster above) was initially planned prior to the fire, but the focus shifted following January 30. The theme for the tournament is “Hawaiian” and the team hopes to raise 500 to 1000 dollars for the Fiery family. “My main goal for the fundraiser is to raise awareness for Daisy’s GoFundMe,” Laurie said.

Girls Volleyball To Hold Fundraiser Following Player’s House Fire

Erich Bohn, Reporter
March 3, 2023
The long-distance team runs laps during practice. Different specialities on the team have separate exercises and drills and even have their own assigned coaches. “I’m the sprints and hurdles coach and I also help out with jumps,” Coach Brandon Krage said. “Essentially I oversee the day-to-day operations of getting the warm-ups in and plan most things concerning the events I coach.”

Conifer Track Team Readies, Sets, and Shoots for the New Season

Erich Bohn, Reporter
February 22, 2023
Conifer E-sports members competing at the fall playoffs on November 16th.

New Season, New Gaming Session

Erich Bohn, Reporter
February 10, 2023
A poster for TOZ advertises the canceled concert. The members would have played two performances on the tour and traveled to Houston and San Antonio, Texas. TOZ plays covers of their past songs as well as songs from Queen, AC/DC, and more. “We haven’t played together in 40 years and then we played last July,” Neuenschwander said. “We got a list of songs we played in highschool and we’ve been rehearsing for a few days.”

Neuenschwander Unable to Play with High School Band

Erich Bohn, Reporter
January 27, 2023
Rhys Hanson demonstrates a selfmade RC car during Trick-or-Treat street. Hanson has many roles on the team, not the least of which are the drive coach, which means that Hanson is very skilled at driving the robots the team creates. Hanson’s other jobs also include general management, electrical lead, Co-team lead, mechanical worker, and designer. “I wear many hats in robotics,” Hanson said.

Robots and Buzzsaws and Contests, oh my!

Erich Bohn, Reporter
December 19, 2022
Several students work on creating rings. These rings are each in different stages of completion. This ring project is the third assignment of the semester. The previous projects were related to planning and practicing making these rings. The class is very laid-back and students are allowed to watch shows or listen to music as long as they complete the required work.

Arts and Rings, Among Other Things

Erich Bohn, Reporter
November 18, 2022
Kipp planks on top of his Kart in preparation for his next race. He has gone to races across the state including in Morrision, Dakota, Denver, Grand Junction, and Colorado Springs.

And He’s Off to the Races!

Erich Bohn, Reporter
November 9, 2022
Ms. Paschke standing in the main office holding the staff photos.

Meet Becky Paschke: World Traveler, Professional Musician, and New Activities Director at CHS

Erich Bohn, Reporter
October 4, 2022
Several Conifer students walking the halls

Will Students Attend?

Erich Bohn, Reporter
March 2, 2022
The All Together Now! Show poster

Local Theaters Are All Together Now

Erich Bohn, Reporter
November 19, 2021
The Conifer High School Entrance under Construction

New School Entrance…When?

Erich Bohn, Reporter
November 5, 2021
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