The Student News Source of Sparkman High School

The Crimson Crier

The Student News Source of Sparkman High School

The Crimson Crier

The Student News Source of Sparkman High School

The Crimson Crier

All content by Riley Wallace
One of the many creative products photoshop can be used for

Photoshop wrongfully rejected, student says

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-Chief May 13, 2014

As little as I get on Facebook, it has not escaped notice the campaign that seems to have broken into the ever-expanding rink of online protest. Victoria’s Secret, Target, this magazine and that...

Senior Alexis Jenninngs adresses the crowd as she gets the news that her jersey has been retired.

Senior basketball player honored with jersey retirement, national award

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-chief April 25, 2014

If anything is certain, she has had her head in the game, and is reaping the benefits of her effort. Senior Alexis Jennings’s number 32 jersey was retired at a ceremony on April 18, where over a hundred...

AP English teachers chosen to be readers

By Riley Wallace, Editor April 8, 2014

“Pencils down. Please close your test booklet and place it with the front cover facing up on your desk.” With those words, the AP exam ends: the last bubble has been filled, the last word written,...

Access Denied

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-Chief March 17, 2014

Like many of my senior peers, I was enrolled for a short time in an ACCESS class-- an online health course that was mandatory for graduation but unavailable as an actual students-in-classroom setting when...

Student highlights top springtime qualities

Student highlights top springtime qualities

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-Chief March 12, 2014

March 22 will be the first day of spring break for the Madison County school system, a week-long reprieve from early mornings, everyday classwork and parking lot traffic. As per usual, anticipation is...

Student says “bring back the bus”

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-Chief February 26, 2014

Open any given algebra textbook to a standard problem: “Michael’s car goes 20 miles per gallon of gas consumed. Gas costs $3.25 a gallon, and Michael needs to drive 70 miles to a basketball game...

Senior sees humor in interviewing

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-chief February 17, 2014

                You sit across the desk from someone and try to smile and try not to fidget. It is 8 a.m. and you woke up thirty minutes ago, threw on a nice-ish shirt that might have been...

President’s speech does not quell fears, magnifies public paranoia, student says

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-Chief January 27, 2014

A menagerie of inconsistencies, President Barack Obama’s eloquently-worded Jan. 17 speech on National Security Agency reform and American technological privacy left more questions than answers to a public...

Alumnus Amethyst Holmes, a reporter for al.com, covers Madison County Schools.

Alumnus returns through journalism career

By Riley Wallace, Editor-in-Chief January 10, 2014

  A University of Alabama graduate employed full-time at AL.com, Amethyst Holmes may have found a way to “beat” the system with her love of journalism, dedication to hard work and love...

New store downtown, Sweet Pineapple.

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New store downtown, Sweet Pineapple.

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