I think it's safe to say that here at Mountain Ridge, we know how to give a friendly welcome to our new students. Well, I would like to take this opportunity to do quite the contrary and help our current seniors out the door.    This year,...

  Homecoming is coming up soon and I’m sure you’re just squealing with excitement. There are many great parts about homecoming which include dinner and pictures with friends, dancing, and awkwardly slow dancing with the love of your life....

Living in Arizona suburbs, you constantly see the same things. Cacti, houses that look the exact same, desert, local restaurants, more cacti, more desert. It gets boring pretty quick when we see the same things over and over again. Thankfully, I have...

Goodbye, middle school, and hello, high school! Transitioning into ninth grade is quite the milestone in one’s academic career, from going to a much bigger campus, to taking a much harder curriculum. It’s expected that these environmental changes...

Now that we have rung in the new school year and said goodbye to 2020-21, I wanted to look back and learn from the many troubles of online and mandatory masked classes. The year was far from perfect, yet it proved the importance of my mental health and...

Last year was difficult. It included A LOT of screen time for pretty much everybody. We did some online learning and relied on technology for most of our social lives. Well, over my summer I did some readjusting and broke away from that norm. I went and...

As almost every teen knows, high school is nothing like the movies. The high expectations set by Hollywood Film companies leads to a whole lot of disappointment. However, many of these films help students understand important life lessons and prepare...

Kaden Hicks, senior at Mountain Ridge and starter on the varsity football team, has more than just the upcoming football season on his mind.   To date, Hicks has received 11 college offers from all over the US and will continue to keep his...

Have you ever wandered the halls of Ridge and asked yourself, “What was Ridge like when it first opened?” “How did students react to the first day of Ridge?” or “How has this school changed since it first opened in 1995?” Things have definitely...

“How Davd Bowie and his music can help you believe in yourself and establish your identity.”    “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” - D.B.   David Bowie (1947-2016) was an English...

People will say that I am as competitive as it gets, which may be very true. Competitiveness has always been a part of me even when I was three. I love to win and put my best foot forward with everything.    Volleyball is the place that gets...

I am a firm believer in the phenomenon that everything - the good, the bad and in-between - happens for a distinct reason. It’s a difficult reality, so we often want to curse the universe or greater powers-that-be for making us deal with what seem like...