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By Lauren Mitchell, Staff Writer It’s back! After 132 days of hiatus, the 12th season of the prominent ABC medical drama at Grey Sloan memorial hospital, Grey’s Anatomy has finally returned to our televisions. Personally, the season 12 premiere was one of the best, definitely a 10 out of 10. I recommend watching it live,…
By Kirsten Kruus, News Editor After a lengthy winter hiatus, the reality T.V. series, Survivor, has begun their 30th season this past February, taking place in Nicaragua. For those unfamiliar with the series, Survivor is a reality show where strangers compete for a million dollar prize at isolated locations around the world. Players are…
By Alexa Marquis, Staff Writer, and Carol Bello, Features Editor The revival of the Polaroid photograph was one of the most iconic elements of pop culture in 2014. They are mostly found on social media accounts of the “hipster demographic.” So what is about Polaroids that made them so revolutionary in the past year? Polaroids…
By HaeMee Lee, Editor-in-Chief It’s that time of the year when temperatures are dropping to below freezing, and the walk from your car to the school in the morning feels like a trek on Mount Everest. Don’t feel like you have to sacrifice style for warmth. Now, this doesn’t mean you should wear flip-flops and…
By Griffin Brightbill and Justin Kortick, Staff Writers Future Business Leaders of America, which is River Hill’s oldest club, has won 11 straight state championships and plans to continue that success this year in the state competition. Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) aims to teach students specific business skills and improve their knowledge in…
By HaeMee Lee, Editor-in-Chief “Let it go, let it go.” Wait – not just yet. Idina Menzel, the voice of Queen Elsa in the hit Disney film Frozen (2013), stated in a recent interview that a Frozen sequel is in the making. Although Menzel later took back her statement, Disney never confirmed nor denied the…
By Shereen Ashai, News Editor Best Buddies is a nationwide organization designed to strengthen the relationships between disabled and non-disabled students. As members of River Hill High School’s Best Buddies, students are given the opportunity “to foster one-on-one friendships,” explains Best Buddies mentor Megan Schultz. Until society became more industrialized, these individuals were typically discriminated…
By Gabby Fiorino Features Editor The girl on fire is back and ready to fight back even harder against those who forced her make choices no young woman should have to make. The Hunger Games series is returning with its third installment, a two part movie Mockingjay Part 1. This movie picks up where and…
By Tyler Conway Staff Writer Now that the school year is in full gear your academically ready for the tasks headed your way. However, are you ready for the plot twists thrown at you every Thursday night from the new ABC hit show How to get Away with Murder? That’s right murder, the word that…
By HaeMee Lee Editor-in-Chief Team Rocket is blasting off again! 24 students, known as Team Rocket, of Mrs. Contney’s Advanced Object-Oriented Design and Advanced Data Structures classes entered the Zero Robotics International Space Station (or ISS) Programming Challenge, an international high school competition run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Zero Robotics, “the goal…