The Big Biscuit

Crammed into a corner near Ace Hardware on Shawnee Mission Parkway, the Big Biscuit serves up breakfast food galore. Their menu boasts several biscuit platters, eggs any way you could want them, nine different omelets, five kinds of scrambles, ten varieties of pancakes, four versions of French toast and seven types of waffles. This place [...]

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Feb. 15: last day to bring Spanish Club T-shirt money

Spanish Club has a meeting on Feb. 15 after school in room 114. “Club is basically [run] by students,” Spanish teacher Alicia Roberts said. “We have always food, games and music. You can also learn something about Spanish culture.” Spanish Club also has T-shirts on sale. T-shirts are $5 and this Wednesday is the last [...]

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Throwback: Love Stinks

Valentine’s Day brings out the best and the worst in people. The romantic become extra-gushy, and the cynics turn even more vile. I would classify myself as a cynic, proudly. I’m not a big fan of over-the-top cheesy love. But I do love music. So I threw together some songs for Cupid’s holiday. Being a [...]

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Photo of the day: rose sale

Photo of the day: rose sale

Junior Laura Crosley organizes roses on Feb. 14 as a part of the rose sale at SM Northwest. Roses were sold to raise money for the Prom Committee. “It felt really good to see everyone so happy. Everyone in the school was really excited to be getting roses,” Crosley said.

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First Day of Spirit Week – Photo of the Day

First Day of Spirit Week – Photo of the Day

Junior Collin Weems sits in class decked out in all his Hawaiian clothes for the first day of spirit week, called Thousand Island on Feb. 13. This year is Weems’s first year as Treasurer on the Spirit Club staff.

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WPA Candidates

The WPA king and queen candidates were announced Feb. 1 on the morning announcements. The voting will take place after the assembly on Feb. 17. The queen will be announced during halftime at the boys’ basketball game on Feb. 17 and the king will be announced at the dance on Feb. 18.

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Everything I learned about the press I learned from a musical

“The power of the press is the greatest power of them all. I tell the city how to think, I tell the city how to vote, I shape its future.” So says newspaper owner Joseph Pulitzer to ragabond newsie Jack Kelly in the 1992 Disney musical Newsies. I’m not going to lie — the first [...]

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Prom Comittee Hosts Valentine Rose Sale

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so don’t forget to send someone special a rose along with a note to their class next week. Prom committee will be selling roses in the mall during all three lunches starting Wednesday. You have a choice between yellow, pink, and red roses for $3.50 each.

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