When I was a kid, my house was full of music. My mom, Dannye Frerichs, was a singer. She sang in bands and at concerts, but what I remember most is hearing her sing at home. She would sing while getting...

On August 4, “Fall Guys” exploded in popularity within the gaming community. Being released virtually on both Playstation 4 and Steam, I bought the Steam version of the game, albeit late, to see what...

150,000. As of July 29, 2020, that is the amount of Americans who have lost their lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has only been 55 days since 100,000 Americans lost their lives to the virus. In...

Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, reproductive rights, climate change. All are issues that have been brought to the forefront recently and consume the news from all different angles. As the world continues...

The Iowa Department of Education released their reopening guidance for schools on June 25. This document was released as a resource for school administrators to safely reopen schools in the fall, but this...

Panic. I thought my heart would race, but, I don’t think it’s beating. I don’t think I’m breathing. I don’t have my insulin, my reservoirs, my syringes. What do I do? How do I live without the...

2020 has been a difficult year. Many events that we had to look forward to have been cancelled. On top of that, it's easy to feel lonely due to self-isolation, or helpless with the acts of police brutality...

As we plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic, movie theatres started to close, leaving movies like "Trolls 2" and "Scooby!" to release on video on demand.  With movie theatres planning a late summer...

The 2019-2020 athletic season was definitely one to remember. State championships, comebacks, wins, losses and most recently cancelations are what made up West High athletics over the past eight months....