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The Ridge Review

The Student News Site of Mountain Ridge High School | Glendale, Arizona

The Student News Site of Mountain Ridge High School | Glendale, Arizona

The Ridge Review

The Student News Site of Mountain Ridge High School | Glendale, Arizona

The Ridge Review

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“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!” and So Do We, and So Should You! Here We Might Make You Laugh, Cry, Both; If Anything These Articles Are Sure to Brighten up Your Day

What's It Like Being a Twin?

What’s It Like Being a Twin?

Kenadee Van Horn March 7, 2019

What it’s like being a twin? Do they really have a connection that other siblings cannot understand? Is it awesome knowing there is someone that is linked to you, and in some cases identical looking? I interviewed two sets of twins to get insight on...

I Gave Up Social Media For A Week

I Gave Up Social Media For A Week

Anna Goode March 7, 2019

Let me just start out by saying that this was very difficult for me, for some reason. I never would’ve thought I would be the teen who was addicted to their phone and social media, but I was wrong. While offline I felt like I was missing something really...

Top 5 Fiction Podcasts

Top 5 Fiction Podcasts

Kate Ourada March 4, 2019

A few months ago, I wrote a staff pick featuring 5 Podcasts for People Who Don’t Listen to Podcasts, which featured a few podcasts over a wide variety of genres to help introduce what radio on demand has to offer. This week, I wanted to shine a light...

Lost Dutchman

Best Places In Arizona to Travel for Spring Break

Chloe Merriweather February 27, 2019

Spring Break is the week-long break everyone counts down to. Everyone knows that spring break is the last hoorah before summer because once we all come back to school, it’s time to enter the last stretch of the game and prepare for AZMerit testing,...

The Reasoning Behind Our Nightmares About School

The Reasoning Behind Our Nightmares About School

Jenna Boden February 26, 2019

We’ve all had nightmares about school; the showing up to school in your underwear, taking a test and running out of time, or taking a test and not remembering anything you had studied so hard for. And then there’s the classic can’t get to class...

Happy Death Day 2U Review

Happy Death Day 2U Review

Josh Heinz February 26, 2019

Happy Death Day 2U, the sequel of the box office hit Happy Death Day, is a comedic horror movie starring Jessica Rothe as the main character, Tree Gelbman. The movie mostly takes place on a typical college campus, but the settings shift throughout the...

Leave It In 2018

Leave It In 2018

Hezekiah Haynes January 31, 2019

We woke up to a new year, new life, and we officially have arrived in 2019. With that arrival, we must also dispose of the bad habits that we have and leave it in 2018. This will lead to a wonderful year filled with new things and new people that come...

The Newlywed Game - 2019

The Newlywed Game – 2019

Jenna Boden January 30, 2019

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we wanted to interview some couples at Ridge to see how well they knew each other. Senior Couple Kayci Kleven and Noah Hasegawa and teachers Mr. and Mrs. Romero all answered questions to test their knowledge...

Dumb Questions Exchange Students Have Received

Dumb Questions Exchange Students Have Received

Kristi Nyhaug January 30, 2019

Through countless TV-series and movies from the US, the rest of the world has garnered a better understanding and appreciation of American culture and how things work here. It was not until I became an exchange student that I realized how little Americans...

Semester Achievements

Semester Achievements

Kristi Nyhaug, Chloe Merriweather January 30, 2019

Over the first semester, Ridge has had some major achievements…   Kim Rodgers was nominated for the 2019 Gatorade secondary athletic trainer award for District 7.   Jenna Jones received the AZ Republic Academic Athlete of the...

Wrapping Up The Year

Wrapping Up The Year

Anna Goode December 19, 2018

Panic. Stress. Sweatpants. We all know what that means, it’s December. Something about the end of the first semester has always been intriguing, you can pretty much watch the life and happiness drain out of high school students. They stumble on campus...

Santa Claus: Truth Exposed

Santa Claus: Truth Exposed

Aileen Resendiz December 19, 2018

Think back to when you were younger, and when you began to question Santa’s existence. Maybe it was a sudden realization, maybe your older brothers and sisters or friends told you, or maybe you never believed in him to begin with. Almost everybody...