Bang bang! School safety officers train to use guns. By: Grace C. Imagine that your safety is jeopardized as a shooter rampages your school. You are running for your life in fear, thinking of the last words you said to your parents. This, unfortunately, is a problem that more and more students face as homicidal…

By Jackson K The world renowned scientist and the world’s smartest man, Stephen Hawking, has died peacefully in his house in Cambridge at 76 years of age. Prof. Hawking made his name on his work with black holes and the theory of relativity. He wrote A Brief History of Time in 1988, but he was…

By Kabir C At around 4:55 am on Tuesday March 20, 2018, the city of Great Mills dealt with near devastating school shooting.  Great Mills is located south of Baltimore along the Potomac river. 17 year old armed boy, Austin Wyatt Rollins, was found dead, shot by authorities outside Great Mills High School. He used…

by Celine P. Early in the morning, around 9 am, a fire in Portland, Oregon lit. The fire was raging from within a large scrapyard. Portland’s skies were gray with puffs of thick smoke. By 10 am the fire escalated and became a five-alarm fire. The forecast says smoky air will be blown west of…

     This is important information from the Blach Student Council about the upcoming walk out on Wednesday, March 14. The information from the student council representatives has been changed. Blach will be participating in the nationwide walk out at to protest gun violence in schools. At 10:00am students who wish to participate will walk…

By Celine P. Most children in the U.S. probably won’t hear “Alright kiddos! Who wants to go on vacation? How does North Korea sound? They have a new beach resort,” in the morning on their first day of Christmas break. For those of us who know about Kim Jong Un, this sounds outrageous, but this…