RISD Board Settles Lawsuit, Changes How Board Members are Elected
February 19, 2019
After a lawsuit was filed by former board member David Tyson to change the district's at-large voting system, RISD board members voted unanimously on Feb. 5 to settle and move to a single-member district system for school board elections. The agreement provides for a new electoral system consisting...
Cruisin’ to the Show
February 15, 2019
Walking into the famous annual Las Vegas car show for the first time, auto tech students Samuel Howard, Esgar Angel and Navid Alam were immediately captivated by the big rimmed trophy trucks modified for off road races.Auto tech teacher Mark Mester took his students to the Specialty Equipment Market As...
Going APES over new space
December 10, 2018
Hands streaked with dirt, Kathleen Cutting works on her soil lab measuring pH levels with colorful tabs filled with chemicals in the new greenhouse that sits on the roof. The 2016 bond granted the AP Environment Science (APES) program a new space, one that came with a rooftop greenhouse,...
Football Finishes with 5 Wins
November 30, 2018
Filed under Fall, Lead, Sports
After notching five wins, the most in Head Coach Greg Pel's tenure, the football team will head into the off season with ever-growing expectations for continued improvement. Missing the playoffs by only one game, varsity finished the season 5-5, and 3-4 in district play. "After the win against...
Teaching for the Stars
November 21, 2018
When physics teacher Derek Hammons visited the Johnson Space center, he saw the original Apollo control room which would send his career on a new trajectory. Hammons attended a teacher space camp called Lift Off early last summer where he began to pursue the idea that a job with NASA might actually...
One Win Away
November 9, 2018
This season comes down to one of the most hyped football games in Richardson's history tonight at Eagle-Mustang Stadium against rival Lake Highlands.The matchup is the final game of the regular season has major playoff implications. Both the Eagles and Wildcats will go into this must-win game with reco...
So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen
November 8, 2018
After teaching German in RISD for 11 years, teacher Kevin Smith got a call notifying him that German would no longer be offered as a class. “I kind of wondered what I was going to do because I had been a German teacher for so long, and it's kinda like ‘who am I’ if I'm not a a German teacher,"...
Eagles Fight for Playoff Berth
November 2, 2018
After beating Berkner 34-20, the football team is in a playoff scramble for the fourth and final spot in the district as they head into tonight's game against Duncanville, the number two team in the state.Richardson, Pearce and Lake Highlands are in a three-way tie for 3rd place, all with records of 3-2 ma...
Richardson Reads Hosts Dave Eggers
October 15, 2018
Filed under Entertainment, Lead
Author Dave Eggers' smirked at senior Wilmer Mejia Maldonado when he asked if he had a phone, then brandished a flip phone over his head like a trophy while the student body erupted into laughter and applause. Eggers, whose book "The Circle" deals with issues surrounding technology, was selected for...
Gender Bender
October 4, 2018
Filed under Entertainment, Lead
While swords clashed, actor Kira McKnight chokes a male actor in the theater department's production of "Macbeth," which reversed the gender roles to show women in positions of power. Theatre Director Cliff McClelland spun the Shakespearean play so character's roles were rewritten for the opposite...
Third Times A Charm
September 30, 2018
The law classroom has looked the same for the past six years, located in downstairs B-hall, trophies standing on every cabinet and banners screaming past successes hanging on the walls. For the past several years, the main changes have been the teachers leading the program. As a first generation college...
Football Team Wins Two Game in Row
September 16, 2018
Filed under Fall, Lead, Sports
Varsity football beat Garland last Friday 21-19 in the annual Homecoming game making it the first time since 2014 the team won more than one game in a season. "It's awesome – we won one game last year, and it's huge now that we've won two games in a row, and I love it," senior quarterback Logan...
