The candidates for the Columbia school board have been finalized. The candidates who filed in December are Erica Dickson, Ken Rice, and incumbent Suzette Waters. Only two spots are available...
Over the past 22 years, Columbia has been home to one of the biggest all-documentary film festivals in the world. The True/False Film Festival is a four-day event that brings together filmmakers, artists,...
Battle High School celebrated Black History Month in a variety of ways this February. One constant was a pop-up art display showcasing Black Battle students' art in the guidance office. Students were encouraged...
A salary cap gives all MLB teams a certain amount of money they can spend in a given year. Unlike the NBA and NFL, the MLB has no salary cap. This gives the more wealthy owners of the teams the advantage...
While the Battle High School Swim Team is a small collection of mainly beginners, they have seen continuous growth during the 2024-2025 season. The team gained another member from the previous season,...
Grant Hughes, Photography Editor
• February 4, 2025
The new semester brings a new line of rehearsals to Battle Performing Arts. The new play put on by the theater is Love/Sick written by John Cariani. The play follows a series of nine different relationships...
On Sunday, January 5, Columbia Public Schools experienced the first snow day of the 2024-2025 school year. But something was new, students were faced with a new form of online learning called the Alternative...
TikTok has had a rough few days after the app was temporarily banned last Saturday but was almost immediately unbanned the next day. Senior J.R. Caine said, “It’s really whatever, I wasn’t super...
Backyard Club was approved at the October meeting of Battle’s Executive Council. The new club, influenced by Rock Bridge’s Pickleball Club, wanted to create an environment in which students could get...
The BHS Speech and Debate team has lost multiple seniors since last year, however, the club has grown in numbers due to an influx of novices. The club has roughly twenty members, many of them being new...
Grant Hughes, Photography Editor
• November 14, 2024
This year, the senior class put on the annual powderpuff game on the football field. The game was rescheduled after the original November 4 was canceled due to rain. Powderpuff football consists of senior...
