FCCLA plans Homecoming, scheduled for September 21
September 16, 2019
Formals, friends, and dancing all have one common thread: Homecoming. This remarkable event sets the stage for the rest of the year. Dances such as this one can easily lift the spirits of a stressed teenager, as grades, jobs, and internal changes all cause tension. With over 1,000 high school studen...
Prom’s Shining Star
Ella Exterkamp, Staff
April 17, 2019
It is almost the end of Prom 2019; The last few notes of Bohemian Rhapsody have everyone breathing heavy and smiles are plastered across every face. The DJ comes on the mic announcing the much-anticipated arrival of the prom court. The next few minutes fill with excited chatter as the nominees walk do...
Students and staff of Johnson relocate to Highlands campus
Kenzie Poynter and Sydney Fessler
April 17, 2019
When students got back from spring break, there was a new addition to the Highlands Campus. The well-known “Death Valley”, became “Johnson Valley.” With the new name came trailers, 405 students, and 56 faculty members. Robert D. Johnson Elementary holds many memories but needed to be rebuilt. Th...
Rebecca Eaton traveling to Germany
Emrel Woody, Staff
April 16, 2019
Senior Rebecca Eaton will be traveling to Germany over the summer for a foreign exchange program, something that not a lot of high schoolers say that they get to do. Eaton is going to be in Germany through August of 2019 to around the end of June in 2020. She will be completing a fifth year of high s...
Blue Ice Cream for Lilliana Schalck
Emrel Woody, Staff
March 25, 2019
On Saturday 23rd the Dari Bar in Silver Grove had its grand opening. The owners of the ice cream store decided to sell blue cones for Lilliana and all proceeds went to the Lilliana Schalck Memorial, a scholarship fund for outcoming seniors. With each small and medium blue cone sold, the money went for th...
Creative Writing Club sells Chocolate
Kayla Wilson, Feature Editor
March 19, 2019
This Tuesday-Friday, the 19th through the 22nd, the Writing Club will be selling small bags of assorted candies in the lobby after school. They will be $2 each and all money raised will be going to the club so they can enter various contests and do fun things together. So far, the club has made 1...
Jaguars moving into “Johnson Valley”
Sydney Cooper, Editor-in-Chief
March 18, 2019
In March of 2018, Fort Thomas Independent Schools received the needed funding from the state to start the reconstruction project on Johnson Elementary School. The Kentucky legislature awarded $7.6 million for the project but also granted an extension that would allow the district to borrow an additi...
Juli Russ Speaks Out: “We are the generation that will be affected most”
Tessa Killen, Staff
March 15, 2019
Today, March 15th, thousands of kids worldwide are skipping school in order to protest climate change. One of those students happens to be sophomore Julianna Russ, a student at Highlands High School. Climate change has been an ongoing problem for the past decades. Fox News wrote that “Every yea...
Cheat Sheet for ACT
Kayla Wilson, Feature Editor
March 8, 2019
On March 12th, all juniors will participate in the ACT, a nationwide test that measures readiness for taxing college classes and future academic success by testing what the student already knows. Preparation for the test begins all the way back in middle school, and even though few students understood ...
Senior Maggie Seibert, who plays Rona Lisa Peretti, performs during “Prayer of the Comfort Counselor” while surrounded by spellers Leaf Coneybear (senior Grant Sower), Logainne Schwartz (senior Izzy Moses), Marcy Park (junior Lizzy Roeding), lunch ladies (junior Mehryn Toole and freshman Madeline Dadosky), and the reporter (junior Molly Bucher).
Senior Grant Sower, who plays speller Leaf Coneybear, stands in triumph after spelling a word correctly in “I’m Not That Smart.”
Sophomore Zoe Zoller, who plays speller Olive Ostrovsky, dances around the stage singing “My Friend, the Dictionary.”
Sophomore Zoe Zoller, who plays speller Olive Ostrovsky, belts out notes with senior Kenzie Gabbard and sophomore Peter Laskey, who play her parents, during “The I Love You Song.”
Senior Lillian Reynolds, who plays comfort counselor Mitch Mahoney, sends a guest speller of the stage during “Prayer of the Comfort Counselor.”
Sophomore Hank Slaby, who plays speller William Barfee, lets his “magic foot” take the lead while dancing and singing with junior Cassidy Perme, freshman Ashley Kelly, and senior Kenzie Gabbard, who play cheerleaders.
The spellers in the Bee complain about the easy words other competitors are getting during “Pandemonium.”
Senior Maggie Seibert, who plays Rona Lisa Peretti, introduces the spellers of the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Junior Lizzy Roeding, who plays speller Marcy Parks, shows off her many talents during “I Speak Six Languages.”
Senior Izzy Moses, who plays speller Logainne Schwartz, sings “Woe Is Me” with fellow seniors Alex Harrison and Carter Bechtol, who play her fathers.
Sophomore Justin Gabbard, who plays speller Chip Tolentino, belts about his distraction during “My Unfortunate Erection (Chip’s Lament).”
The spellers, cheerleaders, boy scouts, and janitors gather around sophomore Hank Slaby, who plays speller William Barfee, during “Magic Foot.”
Sydney Cooper, Editor-in-Chief
May 20, 2019
"When Fox News first launched in 1996, their slogan was “Fair and Balanced.” Seeing this now would probably make a lot of people snicker given the...
Sydney Cooper, Editor-in-Chief
May 13, 2019
Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus,” inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty, reads “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me,” representing...
Emeline Kuether, Managing Editor - Hilltopper
May 6, 2019
For 141 years this building has represented the traditions of Highlands. From the thousands of students who have walked across the stage to receive their...
