New district string teacher at MRUSD
Karen McDaniel, Writer
January 14, 2019
The Maple Run Unified School District has been lucky enough to have a strong music program, with chorus and band and other music classes offered throughout the various schools. Until recently however, there was no strings program available at most of the elementary or middle schools within the distr...
Education or aggravation?
Elizabeth Pietras, Writer
January 14, 2019
As the holiday season comes to an end, exams are just around the corner, leading many BFA students, with the exception of the class of 2019, to wonder how semester exams will affect their proficiency-based scores. In 2016, as enforced by state law, BFA switched from a traditional grading system, consisti...
Poetry Out Loud: 2019 edition
Owen Biniecki, Writer
January 14, 2019
Poetry Out Loud is an annual contest in which students recite poems from a select pool of literature, which changes every year. The competition starts at the classroom level, then to the schoolwide and regional/statewide levels before advancing to the national finals. Each competitor is graded by ju...
Baby, it’s cold outside
Karen McDaniel, Writer
January 3, 2019
It’s the season of giving, which lines up with the frigid winters of Vermont. As always, there are many people in need of warm outer clothing this time of year, and most people are guilty of keeping some that are no longer used. In order to remedy this issue, two coat drives were held at BFA this year...
A new priority: the writing prompt
Haley Seymour, Co-Editor
December 17, 2018
The Maple Run Unified School District has implemented a new writing prompt, which was administered to freshmen at BFA on Dec. 5. The stated purpose is that this new effort will measure growth throughout elementary, middle, and high school. This writing prompt will take place three times a year during ad...
Can news give you the blues?
Owen Biniecki, Writer
December 14, 2018
What we read affects how we think, from how we interpret it to how we relive what’s on the page in the theatres of our minds. The news that we consume as readers every day may be the most impactful. This takeaway we get from our daily sources of information, especially when sources are beginning to w...
Alumni in office
Karen McDaniel, Writer
November 20, 2018
Though national government gets more attention, local politics affect our daily lives more intimately. It’s especially exciting when people who are known throughout the community become involved in government. For BFA in particular, there are four alumni who have held positions in local government o...
Only fools juul in school
Katharina Spöth, Writer
November 20, 2018
Using prohibited and risky e-cigarettes is part of the many students’ everyday life. E-cigarettes aren’t just repudiated alternatives for obstinate chainsmokers anymore, they have become a dangerous trend among the “cool” reckless youth. Two out of 78 students who took part in a poll for this article,...
The Big Contro-fur-sy
Elizabeth Pietras, Writer
November 2, 2018
Do you identify as a furry? Last month, the BFA daily announcements asked this controversial question, fueling an enduring and heated debate amidst the student body. Tori Jessiman (‘21), the student responsible for the idea of a BFA “Furry Club,” confesses that her only intentions were to ...
French on duty
Isaiah Cline, Writer
November 2, 2018
Filed under News, Profiles, Showcase
Here at Bellows Free Academy, officer David French is the schools new School Resource Officer. He is replacing officer Paul Morits, who preceded French. One of the first student resource officers according to Blackfoot Police was in the 1950’s, in Michigan “In the late 1950's, the first S...
Vrooming with Vincelette
Haley Seymour, Co-Editor
November 2, 2018
Many students were confused at the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year to find that there was no Driver's Education teacher. In June 2018, Perry Bove, Driver's Education teacher for 34 years, retired. Bove was also a coach at BFA for over 30 years. When Bove suddenly retired, the Northwest Te...
You have the choice to raise your voice
Katharina Spöth, Writer
November 2, 2018
Many students often feel the desire to get rid of something through speaking it out, but do not know where and with whom. Now a new place for this desire was established at BFA: the Students Voice and Diversity Club. “The main intention is to make sure that kids feel supported but also to give th...
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