Crouching in the corner of the expansive Peachtree Ridge gym, I couldn't help but smile at the surging throng of freshmen pouring in through every door.
It was the first day of school and I was armed with my camera, ready to snap some action shots for student council. The faces I came across through the viewfinder hosted a wide...
The leaves are turning and football season is starting. This means the marching band season is starting as well. Students throughout Gwinnett county witness halftime shows and drumlines and bands in stands every Friday, but how much is really known about the band?
"The band is there to play for the football team," a freshman from Peachtree Ridge stated. However,...
In today’s society, the extremist political ideology of the media consists of constant racism, gender inequality, Islamophobia, and homophobia. We like to believe that we live in a society void of racism. Instead, we have made the topic so taboo that it adapts and is embedded in the very fabric of society. For instance, with the current events of...
The Miss PRHS Pageant, a beauty pageant hosted for Peachtree Ridge High School students, will be held at the school on Sept. 16. Sign up to be in the pageant closed as of Aug. 18 when dues and permission forms were due, but attendance to the event does not require any sign up.
To attend, students need to go to...
On Monday, August 21, one of the most anticipated astronomical phenomena of the century took place across North America. Although Gwinnett County was not within the zone of totality of the solar eclipse, we experienced a partial eclipse pf 98% that was still amazing. Gwinnett County Public Schools delayed dismissal by one hour to allow the students to view...
The Peachtree Ridge Lions' first Friday Night Lights football game against Parkview was thrilling to watch, as the two rivals were exceedingly competitive against each other.
In the beginning, Ridge maintained a score of 4 while Parkview had 2. As Parkview got closer to Ridge's score, the table had finally turned-- with Parkview's score of 12 and Ridge's score of...
The first football game for Ridge was on August 18th, tailgating started at 6:30. It was a complete blue and white out for the school going against Parkview High School.
It was predicted that about half the school would be attending this first game and for the most part, it was true. Tailgating soon got going with students having fun...
The last total solar eclipse in North America was 38 years ago. People have not been able to experience this phenomenon for a long time; some of the younger people have never experienced this mesmerizing event. That is why August 21 was so important; thousands of people were able to be a part of this significant occurrence.
Eclipses can also...
On a bright Tuesday afternoon, over a hundred students are crammed into a classroom, surrounded by the sheer warmth of chattering and Latin music. For the forty-five minutes that they converse, there are no boundaries or prejudices between them.
These students belong to Peachtree Ridge's Hispanic Organization Promoting Education, or HoPe. Though HoPe was created to help Hispanic students, the...
Last weekend, a horrible tragedy struck this nation in Charlottesville, Va. After the shocking events of this incident reached nation-wide, one thing became evident. It is beyond important to unite together and comfort each other. People do not realize that instead of tearing each other down we should be uniting as one race, the human race.
Unity is the act...