With the new school year underway, students in chemistry classes have been adjusting to integrated classrooms. In the science department Ms. Beth Karfs has been doing more labs in class to help the students...
Today proceeded as a normal day would until the fire alarm went off. Students have been trained since Kindergarten how to act if the fire alarm goes off while they are in class; however, lunch is a different...
During the passing period between 4th and 6th period, a fire alarm went off, evacuating the whole school, about 1400 people. That is no small task.
According to a Honeywell employee, the company...
Senior Jonathan Brand shown focusing on his project, “Evaluation of Battery Parameters with an Algorithm.” Photo courtesy of STARS.
Choosing to incorporate learning into part of their summer,...
A week before school began, while most students were buying school supplies and cramming in summer homework, many of the school’s athletes competed in the Jewish Community Center Maccabi Games. The games...
Two extra hours for sleep or homework in the morning can sound like heaven. However, the conflicts the newly implemented Late Start days creates may, to some, outweigh the positive qualities of school...
The ultimate question is “what would you do with a million dollars?” It is a hypothetical question people ask themselves and others about what they dream they could have someday. Now, the district...
The senior class led their grade to victory last night at the 2012 homecoming games on the band field. The kickball games started the night off, with the juniors playing the freshman and the seniors...
Parkway Central High School has many student writers, but not all receive recognition for their work. For sophomore Elise Gibson, this is not the case. Gibson recently won first place in the Wednesday...
After teaching almost every English class available at Central, English teacher Denise Fischer plans on retiring after this year. Fischer has decided to spend her time as a consultant at a school in...
Recently, the Invisible Children campaign, Kony 2012, dominated Facebook and Twitter. Kony 2012 is a campaign to raise awareness of the injustices of Joseph Kony. Kony kidnaps children from their homes...
After spending the last 40 years of her life teaching in the district, English teacher Teresa Mullins will retire at the end of the school year.
Mullins has taught freshmen and sophomore regular...
