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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

The prom qualm: how to ask

Adam Schasel, Staff Reporter March 28, 2012

I am not the kind of person that enjoys school dances. If I wanted to spend three hours getting my eardrums destroyed, I would do it at home, rather than dress up and pay for dinner, a limo, and a ticket. So...

Basketball needs shot clock

Basketball needs shot clock

Samantha Wendt, Sports Editor March 21, 2012

Watching the first weekend of March Madness filled with buzzer beaters and upsets, I wondered why close high school playoff games rarely end the same way. Really, it comes down to one thing. The shot...

Fallen idol needs help back up

Fallen idol needs help back up

Autumn Keefer, News Editor February 28, 2012

Josh Hamilton has had a rough couple of years. After becoming the number one draft pick in 1999, and going to the Tampa Bay Rays, the future looked bright for this young slugger. After playing in the minors,...

Complications with a four day week

Complications with a four day week

Samantha Wendt, Sports Editor February 24, 2012

Most students wonder what it would be like to only have four days of school a week. Tennis players, however, don’t have to wonder. Once tournament season beings, tennis players miss nearly every Friday...

My keys to freedom

My keys to freedom

Liz Schasel, Editor-in-chief February 21, 2012

Once you get your license, you’ve got friends. And not only do you have friends, but you have plans. Everyone and their license-less brother suddenly thinks it would be a great idea for you to come pick...

No love for Valentine's Day

No love for Valentine’s Day

Darby Blaylock, Staff Reporter February 13, 2012

Valentines Day, a day for love, chocolate, flowers, tears, heartbreaks, and tissues.   A day for many couples to flaunt around and show off there perfect relationship, but wake up! If you really love...

Internet piracy throws entertainment industries overboard

Sam McCorcle, A&E Editor February 10, 2012

The word “piracy” brings to mind different things for different people. Some may think of pirates as swashbuckling criminals that sail the “Seven Seas” or as aggressive Africans that attack cruise...

An editor's editorial by Ginger and Liz.

Future fines foreshadowed for people parking perilously

Liz Schasel, Editor-in-chief February 7, 2012

Teenagers are simple creatures. When they are thinking of how their decisions affect others, if at all, it certainly isn’t in the morning. But with that being said, a fine line separates ignorance and...

Junior class needs to grow up

Ginger Hervey, Editor-in-chief February 6, 2012

It was like a train wreck that is so horrible you can’t look away. As I was sitting in the auditorium seat, listening to the counselors try to give the junior class a presentation on scheduling for next...

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