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Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

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Here come the brides

Rachel Ramirez, Editor in chief October 6, 2015

On Jun. 26, Rebecca Landry locked herself in her office at work, turned up the volume on her computer and watched history in the making. She was live streaming the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage,...

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Nick Chase and mother Tamara Castaneda celebrate after winning a total score of 7500 points in a regional ACDEC competition.

Chasing Perfection

Alyssa Schmidt, Online editor in chief April 8, 2015

Tamara Castaneda walked into the Main Street Bread Baking Company in Grapevine to meet her son, graduate Nick Chase, for brunch. He had abruptly chosen to stop going to college, and she was going to ask...

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Juniors Bryce Osborne and Gabbi Morris have been dating for over a year and three months. They support each other by going to each other's lacrosse and golf tournaments.

Love isn’t black and white

Alex Helm, Copy editor April 7, 2015

Junior Gabbi Morris was speechless. A girl had just told her that she shouldn’t be dating her boyfriend, junior Bryce Osborne. But her reason why was what made Morris cringe. “I had an African-American...

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Elizabeth Pool (front, middle) with her adopted father, Ken Pool (left), her mother, Sarah Pool (back, middle), and her sister, Cara Pool (right) at a football game. The Pools adopted Elizabeth two years ago from Casa Hogar in Mexico.

A tortured childhood

Alyssa Schmidt, Online editor in chief November 11, 2014

Beatings were a common part of Elizabeth Pool’s childhood. When she was 6 her parents divorced, then the beatings became daily. Her mother, Marlena, would come home from the restaurant where she waitressed,...

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Piecing together perfection

Austin Rickerson, sports editor, writer April 29, 2014

All he could hear were the insults being hurled at him by his other third grade classmates.  Fat. Stupid. Wuss. Each may have been a single word, but they felt like a ton of bricks to their target. He...

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Helping the unexpected victims: column

Helping the unexpected victims: column

, Madi Schwem March 25, 2014

His name is Booker, and for the longest time, he felt defeated. He was told there was no such thing. That a woman could never rape a man. That something like this could never happen to him and that he...

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A stressed-out generation

Marisa Charpentier November 4, 2013

Extracurriculars, clubs, jobs, sports, homework, pressure to get into college, relationships, family responsibilities - the list goes on. Today’s teens are no strangers to pressure and busy schedules....

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Life after Death

Austin Rickerson, sports editor October 29, 2013

The memories of that August night are fuzzy. The four grams of cheese heroin, a mixture of heroin and Tylenol PM, he bought in Flower Mound. A blur. The ride back to the Colony after snorting two of the...

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Sabrina's story

Sabrina’s story

Marisa Charpentier, Editor in Chief October 16, 2013

Senior Sabrina Renteria started it in the eighth grade. She did it because she was bored. She did it because she had seen it before. She did it to see if she could.     Sitting in her friend’s bedroom,...

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Maintaining contact

miranda chiechi January 15, 2013

  He was there, but at the same time he wasn’t. It was Christmas morning at the Demers’ household. Junior Ben Demers and the rest of his family were woken up by his little sister in the...

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Teacher looks back on church shooting

Teacher looks back on church shooting

ryan mcdearmont October 17, 2012

The day was September 15, 1999. A mere four months after the massacre at Columbine High School. It was a regular day for 17-year-old high school senior Amanda McKnight, a current Briarhill Middle School...

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Chemicals in food become subject of investigation

Jasmine Sachar and Molly Spain January 23, 2012

    contain an illegal fungicide last week, the issue of the safety of the U.S. food supply is now being questioned. The illegal fungicide in the contaminated orange juice has been linked to liver...

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