Renee Woodruff has been teaching at Ridge for about 24 years, and has been in charge of FBLA for the past 3 years. Recently, she has been awarded the FBLA Adviser of the Year Award for the state of Arizona. To win this award, there is quite a lot of...

Mountain Ridge offers many levels of visual arts classes. Ridge has had students art work recognized on a local, state, and national level. Whether it is drawing with colored pencils, creating 2D mixed media, or very hands on molding clay you’re talented...

This school year, in Mrs. Rodgers 4th year Biomedical Innovation Honors class, the students have been working on a project called Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Biomedical Innovation Capstone.   The students started brainstorming ideas for the...

Mountain Ridge’s production of the Broadway musical “Cinderella” by Rogers and Hammerstein was beautifully showcased. The theater department is well known for their incredible performances, costumes, and sets and this musical was no different. The...

This name has been in the news a lot lately. He is Donald Trump’s former attorney, and he was recently questioned in a hearing with the Oversight Committee of the House of Representatives, and will soon be going to jail for three years for lying to...

On March 1st, MRHS student body president Dawson Field found out that he was accepted out of 750 applicants as an ambassador to Utah State University and will also be receiving a 4-year full ride scholarship. Field says he was in shock when he found...

Two students’ art pieces have been selected to be shown at the New Horizons Art Show at the Shemer Art Center. Leslie Simon and Tiana Do are two of the 45 submissions that were accepted. The New Horizons Art Show is an annual art show that showcases...

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...

“Remember when some state lawmakers ran for re-election, promising to be a "champion" for education? Ancient history. That was so... three months ago. Now that the legislature's in full swing, it's payback time. Time to make a teacher's job more difficult...

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,...