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Vol. 82, Issue 8 - Jan. 27, 2020

PMEA sings her praises . . .
Director Earns State Honors
By Ethan Kopicko, senior
The Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) might be singing her praises this year,but we’ve known it all along. Read More...

News

Seniors sing serious songs . . .
Singers Dominate District Choir
By Ethan Kopicko, senior
Seniors Stella Begnal, Brandon Kanell, Sarah Mateer, Sarah Gido, and Ethan Kopicko were privileged to participate in the PMEA District 5 choir festival January 16-17. Read More...
Honor society cleans up . . .
Tri-M Members Serve Music Department
By Liana Kerr, senior
Once a year, Tri-M Music Honors Society members gather to clean and organize the music wing (with a homemade lunch provided, of course!). Normally this is done over the summer, but with excessive maintenance and construction last summer, they opted for the chilly season instead. Read More...

Sports

Cats move up in section . . .
Girls Basketball Travels Road to Playoffs
By Elise Bingle, senior
The Beaver girls basketball team is still on the road to a playoff spot. The team has kept their heads high and practiced hard for their playoff goal. Read More...
Pinning their hopes to the mat . . .
Bobcats Wrestle with New Season
By Elise Bingle, senior
The Beaver Area Bobcats wrestling season has officially started! The team is ready to take down their opponents. Read More...
Hoping to ball, not fall . . .
Boys Basketball Continues to Fight
By Caitlyn Arndt, senior
Call it another rebuilding year for the Bobcat Basketball program. Read More...
Girls grab another win . . .
Swimming Soak Their Competition
By Max Furman, junior
The swim team faced several stiff challenges in the past two weeks as the end of the season inches ever closer. Read More...
Strings attached . . .
Archers Are on Target
By Katelyn Hauser, junior
Arrows are flying in the right direction for this year’s archery team. Read More...
A vaulting success . . .
Beaver Competes in Gymnastics
By Alyssa Cournoyer, junior
Wait . . . we have a gymnastics team? Read More...

Features

Calling adventure fans . . .
Try These Titles for 2020
By Katelyn Hauser, junior
Start your new semester with new books! Spanning thriller to romance to fantasy, these books are attention grabbers for anyone—especially fanatics of adventure stories. Read More...
Interviewing the class of 2021 . . .
Students Launch ‘Bubble’ Podcast
By Max Furman, junior
The "Beaver Bubble" concept describes the insular nature of Beaver itself; so naturally, the Bubble podcast is meant to interview people within the Beaver Area community. Read More...

Opinion

Here’s the story . . .
Evan Explains Beaver County Cracker Plant
By Evan Linkimer, senior
Shell, a multibillion dollar petroleum company headquartered in the Netherlands, announced eight years ago the location of a new ethane cracker plant in Potter Township Pennsylvania, the site of what was previously the Horsehead Corporation and Koppers plants. Read More...