Madison Bullard, News Editor and Reporter

October 19, 2020

On Sep.18, 2020, the country mourned for the late feminist icon; Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She left the world in peace after battling with medical conditions such as cancer since 1999; on June 29th of this year she went in for a checkup of kidney stones and her doctor found that she was suffering, yet again, from pancreatic cancer. She died at the age of 87 in Washington D.C.  Justice Ginsberg was born in 1933 in Brooklyn New York and became a professor at Rutgers Law University...

Raven Yeager, Features Editor/Chief Photographer

October 9, 2020

Distance learning has left positive effects and negative effects on the members of the Taft Union High School District. Students are finding it difficult to stay caught up with their work in each class. Staff members have noticed this and decided to allow students to have one week to catch up on any missing assignments before the end of first quarter. Some teachers decided to drop all late penalties on missing assignments for that week; other teachers were very lenient with the missing assignments;...

Tina Swope, Editor-in-Chief

October 7, 2020

A power outage that occurred at Taft Union High School on Sept. 9, 2020 caused a lot of difficulty and issues for students and staff. All Zoom meetings were cancelled for the rest of the school day, and many due dates were pushed back in some classes. Taft High student Conner McAfee states, “It’s really hot and now I can’t get any of my work done.” He continued, “This has been very frustrating to me.” The power outage was a very big inconvenience for McAfee due to not being able to access...