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...

Friday night lights are here! After a year of absence from the home crowd, Mountain Ridge is eager to open its stands to Ridge Army.    Freshmen, welcome their first chance to belong in the student section as high schoolers. Sophomores, get...

The 2021 Ridge football season has begun and the Ridge Army is getting ready to go wild in the student section on Friday nights. The new turf field has been striped with forest green and a burgundy mountain lion calls attention to the 50 yard-line, awaiting...

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...

Since that summer before the beginning of the freshman school year, I have had the opportunity to read and analyze a handful of novels as assigned in my English classes throughout my high school academic career. Now being a junior, with about 10 novels...

The 2021-2022 school year looks to give back the events and traditions that were lost starting in the spring of 2020 and throughout last year as the ongoing pandemic changed our lives. In addition to bringing back fans at sporting events and homecoming...

Former “Good Luck Charlie” star, Leigh-Allyn Baker, had a lot to say during a school board meeting on Tuesday, August 10. Baker felt that mask mandation was an infringement upon her rights as a US citizen.    “My name is Leigh-Allyn...

Society as a whole places its professional and Olympic athletes on both literal and figurative pedestals. They’re considered to be above the rest of us, untouchable. After all, they accomplish feats the rest of us can only dream of, all the while making...