This year, Mountain Ridge has 7 new teachers, and a new assistant principal! The members of the newspaper staff interviewed these new members to get to know them a little bit...   Dr. Chisholm How long have you been teaching? Chisholm:...

As we dive into 2018, exciting jobs are available for people with all types of skill sets and interests. Jobs which entail creativity and people skills are in high demand and attainable with minimal training.   1) Yacht Attendant As a yacht...

We have several great clubs on our campus, and we interviewed the club sponsors to find more information on the club. Please click on the links below to find a club that you're interested in!   The Advocating for All Club Art and Photography_Club Best...

In the predominantly Republican state of Arizona, two women battled it out in the Special Election for Congresswoman of District 8. Although in most races, there is a winner and a loser, both emerged victorious from the election. While Republican Debbie...

    Daphne Hanson                         Kyran Short Chance Maddeaux                     Joseph DeVoe Jason Yuen                                  Ana Pablos Ellen Ruan     ...

Veronica Pramono is a freshman who attends Mountain Ridge High School. As a hobby, she does photography and makes money from it. It has been about a year since she started charging people who get their pictures taken by her, for each session. She got...

The 20Time project was a fun and creative project for all the juniors to do in their ELA class. The project allows kids to create a project based on something they are interested in and then present it to the rest of the ELA class. There were no limits...

 Last month, one of the Ridge history teachers, Ms. Boland took a group of students to participate in the annual HEAL tea event. HEAL, or the Happily Ever After League, is a support system for people with cancer, started by a woman in Scottsdale. She...

Mr. Stein “This wasn’t at prom, but I was dancing with a girl and I think I accidentely tripped her and she fell on her back  and she was wearing a strap, and it went BOING! I was wearing a coat and I covered her up with it. So I caused someone’s...

Shivani Vaidya, an MRHS Junior, received the Presidential Outstanding Volunteer Award on February 27th, 2018. This award is given to people who volunteer much of their time to a specific organization. “It is not an award students typically get,...

Here are fifteen powerful quotes to get you through the end of the school year!   “It is hard to fail, but it is worse to have never tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort,”- Theodore Roosevelt.   “Don't judge...

Getting into college can be very difficult and stressful. Applying for scholarships, maintaining good grades, and doing other extracurricular activities may seem like a long uphill battle. Some may begin to doubt rather or not it is all worth it. While...