Brooke Sandahl

Softball ends season on positive note

In the last inning, of the last game of the season, the batter moves the gravel beneath her cleats as she eyes the pitcher with confidence. She grips the bat between two gloved hands and bends her knees, ready for...

Tragedy strikes BHS; students grieve the loss of a frie.nd

Headed westbound on county road 36, a green Plymouth failed to negotiate a left curve and skidded into the eastbound lane. As the green Plymouth lost control, it collided with a white Econoline van. Christopher...

Shadow Man haunts BHS

an through the schoolhouse, not a creature was stirring: not even a mouse. The tests were hidden in a cupboard with care fear that shadow man soon would be there. Shadow man, a legend born i in the World 8Language...

New teacher welcomed by German students

Les The alarm clock displays 4:50 a.m. as andi Grotewold wakes up to it9s ringing. As he prepares for another day of teaching, she ets ready for the hour and 15 minute drive ahead of her from St. Paul to...

Night of the swimming dead

As I grew up in, Burnsville Minnesota, the first six years of my life, I was exposed to many fish deaths due to fishing trips and things of the sort. Early in my life I discovered that taking care of fish was not one...

Students gear up for MCA tests

Staring down at the all-too-familiar green Scantron sheet, the student prepared to take the Math MCA test. As he read through the questions the student threw down his number two pencil in frustration. "Who cares?" he...

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