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Maria Adams, Managing Editor

With a love for math, reading, and hanging out with friends, Maria Adams, senior, has been in the newspaper for three years. President of Quill and Scroll, and President of the math club, she wants to show others how to overcome their fears of math. Being in a military family, Adams moved constantly and had to make new friends everywhere she went. Her friends describe her as hard-working and funny. She enjoys newspaper because of how it fosters community and really pushes her to do her best at anything. Adams wants to continue her education after high school and has her heart set on Georgia Tech.

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Fabio Martinez(right) and friends hang out before the pandemic. COVID-19 separated friends.

COVID-19 Travels Around The Globe

March 28, 2020
Students leave school and will not return until April 1, 2020. Dr. Mary Elizabeth Davis declared that all schools would be shut down for two weeks for cleaning and social distancing.

COVID-19 Prompts School Closures

March 18, 2020

[VIDEO] Burns Writes His Own History

March 9, 2020
Griffin Sheffield helps students improve their pieces before submission. He received multiple submissions but hopes for more.

Literary Magazine Solicits Submissions

March 3, 2020
Honesty might be the only cure to this corrupting virus. We contaminated multiple generations through societal norms.

Ola Diagnosed With a Detrimental Virus

February 29, 2020
Ola students mourn loss of Justice Farmer. Student shared memories of their friend.

Community mourns loss of student

February 27, 2020
The Lady Mustang struggle to rebound the ball. They scored another basket.

Lady Mustangs Shoot A Great Game With Few Spectators In The Stands

January 19, 2020
With the excessive amount of responsibilities current students have already, standardized testing adds more stress.

Op-Ed: The Crushing Weight of Standardized Testing

December 15, 2019
Scholarships, grants, and loans take away some of the burden from students attending college. Most of the scholarships received do not cover books, food, transportation and other fees that eventually add up.

What If… Students Do Not Attend College?

December 12, 2019
Students travel thousands of miles to visit far away family or strengthen bonds with immediate family in exotic places. These trips created memories that will last a lifetime.

How To Survive Holiday Road Trips

December 3, 2019
With the new amendment to the testing board policy, AP students are exempt from EOC testing. “I’ve always thought that it was unfair to require both tests because AP students generally have no problem at all with the EOC and it is just an added task that they have to complete,” Jeff Burns, AP US History teacher, said.

Ending End of Course: What New Amendment Means for AP Students

November 28, 2019
On Nov. 19, 2019, box begins to overflow items. Students showed their passion for giving back to the community.

Students Warm Up the Community

November 19, 2019
The cheerleaders line up to kick off the football team. The girls were eccentric all night in lifting not only the football teams spirit, but spectators as well.

Mustangs Advance to State Playoffs

November 11, 2019
Ola has the opportunity to be more inclusive by creating gender neutral restrooms. The restrooms have been built in schools around the nation.

What if… Ola was inclusive?

October 31, 2019
Zachry Aarons little sister escorts him down the field, where he will become Homecoming King. They both were excited to share this moment together.

Ola Crowns Victor

October 28, 2019
Westbroek uses the writing center as a quiet place to work. She worked with multiple students who have come into the writing center on improving their writing.

The Writing Center Grows

October 1, 2019
Hunter answers Kylah MacDonalds, senior, question. Hunter answered many questions ranging from how countries interact in the space industry to space travel.

NASA Lands On Ola

September 19, 2019
The athletes, coaches, and umpires stand for the national anthem. The team provided a time for respect for the soldiers that have, are, and will protect the United States of America.

Softball strikes out

September 1, 2019

Poets read at Story on the Square

May 23, 2019
Tylissa Hill, assistant principal, recommends Becoming. She learned a lot about Michelle Obama.

[PHOTO] Mustangs Hope To “Come back stronger” After Loss

March 15, 2019
The Book Mark: Michelle Obama shares her story of Becoming

The Book Mark: Michelle Obama shares her story of “Becoming”

March 14, 2019
Gary Steagald, junior, finishes his homework during fourth period. Students discovered, such McDonald, the advantages and disadvantages to opting out of a last year of math.

Seniors opt out of non-essential math classes

February 27, 2019
These works of non-fiction allow readers the opportunity to spread their horizons, and the more knowledge one has the more power.

The Book Mark: Non-fiction nods off

February 6, 2019
Julie Murphy goes big. She wrote a heart-warming book that was the basis of an enthralling movie.

The Book Mark: “Dumplin’” makes her debut on the Netflix runway

December 18, 2018
DiSario prepares for college and enjoys his senior year. After he visited Stanford, Disario knew it was the school for him.

DiSario wrestles his way into Stanford University

October 25, 2018
To All The Boys Ive Loved Before deals with high school romance. The authors style reflected other young adult writer including Sarah Dessen and Kasie West.

The Book Mark: To All The Books I’ve Hated Before

October 4, 2018
The buildings are a great tragedy, but they do show how Americans will come together to fight for their flag. Sept. 9, 2001 stole over 2,996 lives from America.

Memorial recognizes the lives lost on Sept. 11

September 12, 2018
I read to see the world from a different point-of-view. Jason Reynolds and John Green agreed that this novel will be remembered as a classic of our time” and isn’t a literary trend... an issue of our time.

The Book Mark: The real tea on “The Hate U Give”

September 2, 2018

Jabang scores in the big league

May 24, 2018

Seizures need to be a private event

May 24, 2018

Seniors walk the halls for the last time

May 24, 2018

Superintendent sanctions students’ walkout

March 14, 2018

Bardugo’s “Wonder Woman: Warbringer” leaps from page to screen

January 22, 2018

The cross-country boys team runs to State

November 8, 2017

Ola Overtones sing it off

October 5, 2017
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