It’s Good to be Back

It’s Good to be Back

It’s finally here! Although the outside temperature argues for summer, your school spirit knows it’s fall. Tonight you’ve chosen shorts and flip-flops, but soon it will be flannel shirts, pants, and your favorite boots. Your cap echoes your team pride, and your...
A Fourth Quarter Fan

A Fourth Quarter Fan

FORGET YOUR most potent, most aromatic memories of high school locker rooms. Lincoln County High School’s football locker room is saturated with the winning spirit of three state championship seasons and its players. After long practices and hard-fought games, the...
An Undefeated Tiger Season

An Undefeated Tiger Season

IT WAS the beginning of school football season, and the boys of fall were anxious to rough the field between the two goal posts. New faces filled the coaching staff of Fayetteville High School’s football team. Though the team had played a few seven-on-seven scrimmage...
Like a rock tossed into the water

Like a rock tossed into the water

SURROUNDED BY a sea of classmates, a student filled with potential may feel invisible or wish he could disappear. Another student’s highest aim might be to coast through school until graduation. One young person might be filled with dreams and desires but fail to...
Like a rock tossed into the water

But, God

WITH THE first cup of steaming coffee in my hand and the stiffness still in my joints, I gently ease into my spot on the couch. A fresh, new day offers a blank page, although the to-do list in my mind has grabbed the pen and began scribbling. Yesterday’s recycled...