Mr. Klinkefus’ Retirement Video

Ms. Claussen’s Retirement

The news of Ms. Claussen’s retirement has been out for a long time now.  What are Ms. Claussen’s thoughts of ending her teaching career?  Will she miss it?  What will she do now that there aren’t anymore term papers to correct?  Everyone who walks the halls of HCHS knows that Ms. [...]

State Superpower

Unfortunately, the school year of 2007 will go down in history with a state championship. However, it has produced many outstanding teams, such as this year’s HCHS girls track team. After qualifying in 15 events  for the state track meet, the Harlan girls were able to pull away with 51 points, placing 4th overall. In the video [...]

Band Study Hall: An Endangered Class

Recently, Mr. Crilly was informed that there have been complaints about band study hall.  Because of these recent complaints band study hall has become on a small list of endangered classes.  After hearing about this issue, Victoria and I decided to get the inside story.

 
Victoria & Allison [...]

Graduation Not Too Far Away

This year the senior class has been involved in many fun things and has had some pretty fun adventures.  They will soon be leaving our school.  With only 2 days left the seniors are looking ahead to what the future may hold.  As all of us younger high-schoolers know, the best part is going to [...]

Mr. Klinkefus’ Thank-You Response

After a very touching student council presentation to Mr. Klinkefus on Wednesday morning, Mr. Klinkefus wanted to share this thank-you response to the Student Body:
“WOW!  I want to extend my sincerely gratitude to all of those who took time from their busy schedules to prepare the program this morning.  I’m extremely honored and touched by the gesture.  It [...]

The Tradation still holds…..

As we all should know the HCHS Band has had a a “Tradation” that we all need to keep going or we will be “The Year”. Last Fri. the 06-07 Large group band help that heavy burden. Although we had little problems it could have cost us that Conveted rank. But we followed through, although [...]

Interview with the news HCHS Principal

At last we finally have an interview with our new principal, Justin Wagner. The one on the left in the picture is Mr. Wagner. Here is the interview:
1. How long were you principal at South Sioux City?
 8 years
2. What made you come to Harlan?
First, Harlan Community High School has a strong academic and
extra-curricular tradition.  Joining [...]

Summeritis

We all know how seniors become lazy at the final stretch of school. In fact, we even have a name for it, Senioritis. But with summer just around the corner, we have found that a plague of slacking off has infected the entire student body, not just the seniors.  After being cramped up in those dreary, sunless hallways for [...]

DI Globals Preview

I had the privilege to interview Andrew, one of the high school Destination Imagination members, about the upcoming global competition in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Q:What is your position on the team?
A: The Harlan DI Team is an extraordinarily fine-tuned machine of seven members. Each member has a specific job to do such as planning and building, or [...]

Two nights of Hairspray, Lipstick, and Glitter:)

Tiarks School of Dance put on their annual dance recital for 2007 on Saturday, April 28th( 7:00p.m) and two shows Sunday, April 29th(1:00pm and 4:30pm) in the high school auditorium. The show on 1:00 show on Sunday contained 24 different routines including a finale routine by most of the dance students. 
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Key Club Banquet

The Harlan Community High School Key Club had their annual banquet on Monday April 16th and it was great.  I was able to get Mr. John Knicely, the lead anchorman of Channel 6 News in Omaha, to come and speak.  He was a great speaker and used humor to deliver his message about the service work [...]

Desk-crimination

Have you ever noticed how cluttered Mr. Vis’ desk is?  We here at HCHS kid’s news have.  However it wasn’t until recently that we wondered why.  What makes Mr. Vis, an otherwise very organized individual, have such a messy desk?  Well, when we compared it to Mr. Bruns’ desk, we found out that Mr. Bruns’ [...]

The new sophmore treasurer

I had the chance to interview Malissa Andersen. She is the new sophomore treasurer. In this interview you will learn why she chose that spot, how many years she has been in student council, and so much more.
1. How many years have you been in Student Council?
-This year was my first year being in [...]

Ad Campaign–Winning Entry For Pizza

Ad Campaign–Winning Entry For Shoes

Film Festival—Film #2-Jackie

Film Festival—Film #1-Mason

The FFA State Convention

I, Joe Hahn, interviewed Mr. Leinen on what he thought about the convention.
Q: How do you think we did at state? Why?
A: Well most advisers would be upset, but since we had so many contests we couldn’t concentrate on one at a time. We are 12th in state so we are still good.
Q:What could we [...]

State FFA Preview

The state FFA is held in Ames, IA and it is on the 15th and 16th of April.  The Harlan FFA Chapter is the largest in the state and are taking close to 70 kids to it.  Some events are Parli Pro, Experience the Action, Conduct of Meetings, Ag Issues, and more.
Willie Baughman and Jeff [...]

What People Think About The Newsblog

After doing these newsblog entries for about a month, we decided it was time to find out people’s opinions on the newsblog.  We had some difficulty finding students out side the class that had looked at the newsblog, and out of the few teachers we asked, none had looked at the newsblog. Victoria interviewed Chelsey [...]

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A twenty minute Concert was held on Thursday night featuring the five kindergarden classes from both New Park and West Ridge. The classes from Mrs. Allen’s class, Mrs. Andersen’s Class, and Mrs. Wirtjes’s Class, or the Classes from New Park Preformed the songs Wheels on the [...]

School Upgrades

An interview with Richard Daberkow on the topic of the school districts upgrades
By: Joe Hahn
Q: What are the problems with the current facilities?
A: In the elementary the are a lot…outdated electronically, bad heating, and space. In the high school the science areas need fixing and the its going to be brighter in the [...]

No Freshmen or Sophomores for Prom

The no freshmen or sophomores for prom has been a question everyone has been dying to know the answer to. Victoria and I wondered, why any freshmen or sophomores can’t go to prom if an upperclassmen asks them. After pondering on this question for awhile, we decided that this would be the perfect time to get the inside [...]

School Board Minutes 4-2-07

Here are the school board minutes for April 2, 2007.
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Prom Preview

This interview is with Mrs. Shnack about 2007 prom which will be held on March 31st.  Grand March is also March 31st at 4:15.  This interview will explain how prom is organized, who it includes, and other interesting facts. 
Michelle (6th hour) and Julia (3rd hour) did the interview. 

A Fun and Challenging Week at HCHS

     As ten seniors (5 boys and 5 girls) packed their bags last Sunday, we were all wondering, who will be the ultimate senior survivor? Through the week of March 26th through the 30th these seniors have been involved in many challenges to eliminate who was the weakest player. As the week went on, the [...]

Career Fair

The fourth annual career fair was held yesterday March, 29.  The career fair consisted of many of Harlan’s and other town’s finest workers in different jobs.  We were honored to have five other schools here they are: A-H-S-T, Boyer Valley, Elk Horn-Kimbalton, IKM, and Walnut high schools. There were people there that work as vets to  people [...]

3-19-07 School Board Minutes

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FFA Breaks Record-Interview with Mr. Leinen

On Saturday March 10, the Harlan FFA chapter participated at the District FFA contest held at Glenwood.  Ben (6th) and Nate (3rd)  interviewed Mr. Leinen about how the District competition went and about the future State FFA contest that seventy kids from Harlan will get to participate in.