Thanksgiving started when the original pilgrims decided to have a feast after celebrating their one-year anniversary of moving to America, and they invited the Native Americans who helped them throughout...

Every year, children and parents gather around to put on their double-duty coats, hand out peanut butter rations and wear Ushanka hats together at the local malls and get ready for one of the most unnecessary...

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth living,” Albert Einstein once famously said, speaking of the importance of volunteer work, and I can now attest that to be true. Four weeks ago I traveled...

As the holiday season comes around, consumers prepare for Christmas, buying gifts and other holiday paraphernalia. Some buy those items in stores, while others have converted to shopping online, as it...

Each year administrators create new policies or modify old ones. Sometimes they explain to students the necessity of a policy; for example, the administration justified the end to throwing baby powder...

Before Homecoming Day arrived, I knew I would inevitably be disappointed. I even planned my evening so I would only be at the actual event for one hour, which was sufficient to catch a couple of good songs,...

“For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the ‘Age of America’ will end. China’s economy will surpass that of America in 2016.” These words, written...

All around the world, right this very minute perhaps, protests are taking place in 28 countries over a simple video, a video that has sparked a type of controversy previously unheard of. The protesters...

If you announce that you have never been to one of our high school football games, would you be ridiculed? Most likely. But how about one of our performing arts events? Less likely. While it is true...

Political figures twisting the truth to fit their personal agendas has always been commonplace; however, usually there is at least a kernel of truth buried beneath the heap of distortion. These misrepresentations...

As I walked into CHS on the first day of school, I realized something: either this school is shrinking or its population is expanding. I am not quite sure when I realized this. It might have been when...