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AP students take test to prepare for a test
January 10, 2012 • Heather Webster
On Jan. 7, almost 220 AP English students took an optional mock exam hoping to improve their future scores in May. This exam hopefully gave students the full experience of the real exam, without the official score. Questions from last year’s...
Newspaper staff awarded Crown Award
January 10, 2012 • Krista James, Layout Editor
Awards are something each school newspaper works 180 days to achieve, and Sparkman High School’s The Crimson Crier does just that. The Crimson Crier staff will go to New York City in March to accept the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s,...
Seniors are attempting to make memories last forever
December 22, 2011 • Rebecca Arnold, News Editor
With high school coming to a close for the seniors, they have been given an assignment that will remind them of the years that made them who they are. They have been assigned to make a memory book, starting from birth all the way to their...
Alabama A&M, they came, they went and recruited
December 22, 2011 • Patrick Fitzgerald
Representatives from Alabama A&M University’s Food Science Program came to Sparkman Wednesday afternoon for a day full of fun, education and recruiting. The event was held in the auditorium (Room 147) in third block. Students and teachers...
High school students bring holiday spirit through SGA’s Christmas Program
December 16, 2011 • Nastassja Pruitt
On Wednesday this week, Gym 1, which would usually only be inhabited by a few PE students, was turned into a winter wonderland filled with hundreds of Kindergarten students. SGA sponsored the 2011 Kindergarten Christmas Program this year, the...
School hires new assistant principal
December 16, 2011 • Krista James, Layout Editor
New school years bring new challenges for students, faculty and staff. This school year happened to bring the cumbersome process of hiring a new assistant principal. Cindy Hanson is now the new assistant principal residing over the special services...
Getting a late jump on the holidays
December 13, 2011 • Tori Jenkins
Due to theMadisonCountySchool District’s decision to make schools start later, Christmas break does not start until Dec. 23. With Christmas break starting later, students and teachers do not get a two week break, instead they only get a week...
JROTC drill the idea of winning into the students minds
December 9, 2011 • Jasmine Phillips
The JROTC Drill and Raider team went to Stanhope Elmore in Montgomery to compete in local competition recently. There were 18 different teams from Alabama and the competition, providing fierce competition. The Senator...
Blanketing the less fortunate with warmth
December 8, 2011 • Mick Walters, Web Editor
Spanish club just finished their first ever blanket drive on Nov. 30, after three weeks of asking for blankets. There are so many that are less fortunate, and the Spanish Club tried to take it in their own hands. Spanish teacher and Spanish Club...
Comemorating the day that led to the U.S. entering World War II
December 6, 2011 • Lee Robeson, Sports Editor
Today marks the 70th anniversary of that infamous day of Dec. 7, 1941. The attacks that occurred on Pearl Harbor will never be forgotten. Today we must remember the 2,459 service members that were killed during the disastrous attack by the...
