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The Red Ledger

The online student news source of Lovejoy High School

The Red Ledger

The online student news source of Lovejoy High School

The Red Ledger

Vine is the new social media craze sweeping the campus. There are many famous vine users on campus and around the world.

Six seconds of fame

Kevin Davis, Staff Reporter October 1, 2013

First Facebook, then Twitter, then Instagram, and now Vine. Vine is the most recent social media craze. The application allows the user to post six second videos that play in a loop. Six seconds may not...

Sophomore Heidi Zettl has performed with her band at local venues and events such as this year's Leopard Friday in early September.

Student scores show theme song

Savannah Whitmer, Lead Reporter October 1, 2013

The Heidi Zettl Band, led by musician and sophomore Heidi Zettl, has written the theme song for a new WFAA show called “Live, Love, Laugh, Today”. The band was playing at the Blue Fish cafe in...

Despite his youth, Trank is an Olympic wrestling coach, the youngest in the country.

Olympic lifting at the high school

Adrian Moger, Staff Reporter September 30, 2013

Olympic Lifting is the sport of two specific movements, the snatch, and the clean. It requires constant and rigorous training, as well as intense concentration to perfect the skills and techniques required...

Let the Hoco Games begin

Claire Peralta, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

A new homecoming event will begin Monday. The Homecoming Hunger Games, the “Hoco Games”, is a new activity that will take place through Thursday. Two boys and two girls from each grade will be selected...

Among the new teachers on campus is AP Language teacher Jasen Eairheart.

New year welcomes new staff

Tory Heruska, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

With the start of every school year, comes new teachers and staff as well. Beginning a new school year can be just as stressful for the teachers as it is for the students, especially if they’re new to...

Some of the senior girls gather in the commons during the day to take a picture in their Class of 2014 senior shirts.

UPDATED: Senior shirts keep it “C14SSY”

Katie Curry, Staff Reporter September 26, 2013

Senior shirts are nothing new.  But Marisa Lizana did things a bit different for this year’s senior class; she made the shirts herself, before school even started. “I originally got the idea from...

Taking the first AP class available to freshmen, students, Kennedy Miller. Katie Williams, and Zoe Kahana, spend class time taking notes from the textbook.  With finals just a few weeks away, some students are already preparing.

Freshman AP class presents challenges

Lauren Payne, Staff Reporter September 25, 2013

Freshman and sophomores are taking their first AP classes this year, AP Human Geography for freshman and AP World History for sophomores.  It’s the first year the school has offered an AP level course...

Student shares spotlight with Parachute

Alyson Sudak, Staff Reporter September 24, 2013

Midway through the setlist of the Parachute concert at the House Of Blues Sunday night, the band stops singing their original songs, to play an upbeat Bruce Springsteen tune. Parachute’s lead singer,...

Sport of the Mind, the school's chess club, has won various trophies through the years.

Chess club offers the competition without the sweat

Jordan Toomey, Staff Reporter September 24, 2013

Though they may not have the brawn of football players, or the stamina of a cross country runner, what they may lack in athleticism, they make up for in brains – and that’s what it takes to play the...

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