Yearly Archives: 2009

2010 leesville wrestling preview

The Leesville Wrestling team will begin their 2010 season the first week of November. The team is confident in defending their CAP-7 championship from last...

New teacher takes over class

Leesville gained a new staff member this week when Ms. Rebecca Jones, a first year teacher, took over Mrs. Breeden’s Honors U.S. History and...

“Haunted” disgusts and delivers

Haunted, a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, takes an old idea of putting multiple short stories in a single book, and adds a unique...

Magnet Schools, a Third Alternative

The Wake County Public School System is going to fail. On Nov. 3 in a runoff race for District Two, John Tedesco secured a...

Attitude to Blame for Poor Education

Recent studies prove that America’s economic and cultural domination will end within the century.  Whether today's students like it or not, the U.S. is...

Chorus Students Auditioned for Music Conference

Lauren Smallwood, Eddie Hackim, and Mary Robert McGrath were selected out of hundreds of applicants to participate in the annual North Carolina Music Educators...

Pride Football Players Discuss Time Committments

From July to December, Leesville’s football team is dedicated to running, conditioning and practicing several hours a day, five days a week. Even when...

LRHS’s Dracula Exceeds Expectations

Leesville’s fall production of Dracula, performed November 5-7, exceeded every expectation its audience had. Usually ranked second in quality to the school’s spring musical...

Christmas Here Too Early

The moment I walked into Target on Halloween night, I knew something was wrong: Christmas was here, but it was only October!  Alongside the...

A Day for Veneration, Not Vacation

November 11, 2009 marked the 90th anniversary of Veteran’s Day in America’s history. In 1919, when Veteran’s Day was known as Armistice Day, Woodrow Wilson...

Modern, Isolationist Attitude to Blame for Decline

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we Will not die of starvation has been purchased with The guarantee that we will die...

Leesville Students Attend Military Fair

Leesville Road High School conducted a military fair on November 3, 2009 for students interested in the armed forces.  West Point military, the United...

Capital Pride’s Success Leads to International Choral Festival

For the sixteenth year, Capital Pride has shown its strength in both talent and numbers; Diane Covington’s choral program will participate in an international...

Obese NC Workers to Pay More for Health Insurance

North Carolina will implement a ‘fat tax’ on its government workers starting in July 2011, making workers that qualify as “obese” pay more for...

Leesville, Fuqua Finish Golf Season

The Leesville women’s golf team successfully completed their 2009 golf season. Coach Andy Hunt thought the team could have finished a little stronger.  “We felt...

Stolen Art Prompts Search, Frustration

On a seemingly normal Monday morning, Gene Kim was shocked to discover that his artwork had been stolen from the lobby where it had...

Seniors Win Homecoming Float Contest

On Friday, October 16, 2009, the Leesville Road High senior student council won Leesville’s annual Homecoming float contest. Beginning on the first day of school,...

Boy cheerleaders add humor to powder puff game

A group of senior boys took on the role of cheerleaders to show their support for the senior girls during the annual Powder Puff...

Powder puff causes disunity at LRHS

The Powder Puff game and carnival is supposed to be just another outlet for the Loonies to release their surplus of school spirit. Students...

Ten Students Interviewed for Teaching Fellows Scholarship

Ten Leesville seniors attended the district interviews for the teaching fellows scholarship, a $6500 per year scholarship awarded to future North Carolina teachers. Teachers, WCPSS...

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