Category: front page
-
Senior Sidewalk? Class of ‘13 begins new tradition to Senior Wall
Not even a full week into the upcoming school year and the senior class of 2013 has already begun to leave their legacy at Leesville Road High School. On Friday, Aug. 24, after many…
-
Loonies gain pride with summer jobs
With teenagers wanting more independence and more money in their pockets, many have started to work. Summer jobs are a great way for teenagers to do something productive with their time and also gain…
-
Leesville and Broughton to Play Alumni Game for Richard Murphy Scholarship
On June 14, 2012, an alumni basketball game, at 6:30 p.m., will be played between former Leesville and Broughton players in the Leesville Gym. The game will commemorate the February 6, 2001 match-up between…
-
Class of 2012 on shuffle – the songs of our past
Who can remember when we started paying attention to music? Sure, I fondly remember my single-digit days of NSYNC-mania, Backstreet Boy posters and Britney Spears, but between those fetishes and around the seventh grade…
-
Dr. Muttillo comes to Leesville with high expectations
“In high school, I learned to type on a typewriter. When I went to college, I brought a word processor with me. Over the same period of time, information was stored on an 8-inch…
-
Leesville prepares for graduation
Graduation is June 7, a month away, but Leesville has already begun to prepare for this important event. This week, April 30 through May 4, for example, Senior bulletins were released that detailed information…
-
Corrections and Retractions
May 8, 2012 Dear Mycenaean Readers, It has come to my attention that the online school newspaper has misrepresented Martin York, Park Scholarship winner, in an article about the value of and reasons for…
-
“Night Under the Big Top” to be a big time
It’s that time of year again. Boys are blushing as they paint “prom?” onto cars, girls are favoriting hair styles on their Pinterest accounts, and teachers are hushing chatter about dinner reservations. This year’s…
-
New principal to bring stability to Leesville
The next principal of Leesville Road High will be current West Millbrook Middle School principal Dr. Muttillo. He said that he should be taking over “the first week of May, contingent on when an…
-
Kiss Me, Kate prepares for show week
Things are starting to heat up as the cast and crew of Kiss Me, Kate prepare for show week. “Everything’s starting to come together,” said Cassie Seale, who plays the role of Lois. “We…
-
Leesville welcomes Dr. Dixon
The end of an era is oftentimes met with harsh criticism, disappointment and a reluctance to change. However, with every parting of ways comes the opportunity to begin anew. Such is the state of…
-
Chris Hendricks takes the hearts of Leesville students
While Leesville’s juniors spent hours trapped in the dungeon that is the ACT, freshmen, sophomores and seniors were treated to a special assembly. The assembly featured Chris Hendricks and his acoustic band. Chris Hendricks,…
-
Leesville says goodbye to Mr. Lyons
On the morning of February 8, Principal Scott Lyons announced to the Leesville Road High School faculty, staff and students that he would be starting as principal of Enloe High School on March 1.…
-
Mrs. Harris plans her retirement
Mrs. Harris, an English teacher at Leesville, is retiring from a long, dutiful career on February 29. Harris began teaching in 1969 at Abingdon High School in Abingdon, Virginia. “I knew that I wanted…
-
Attention: those subscribed to the RSS feed
On days that the Mycenaean staff distribute printed newspapers to the Leesville students and faculty, the online edition posts the same articles that are printed. Tomorrow (February 23), dozens of articles will be…
-
Promotional video fantastically advertises LRHS
The administration recently decided there was a need to appeal to prospective students who would be choosing their high schools from now on . A compilation of clips, edited by Jason Korreck, CTE teacher,…
-
Leesville band: ah, refreshed
On Friday, January 6, the Leesville Road band program received the one belated holiday gift they had been waiting nearly a month for: a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant. According to Elizabeth Perry, senior and…
-
Custodians sweep up with a smile
“Imagine a school of 2000 students, who are solely responsible for cleaning up after themselves.” Mr. Ward, assistant principal, presents a scary scenario. “It is so important that they keep the school clean; we…
-
Leesville band fights for $25,000
The Leesville Band’s instruments are eighteen years old, and the band students are determined to replace them. They plan to achieve this feat by winning a $25,000 grant from the Pepsi corporation. The grant…
-
Leesville collects record donations for annual food drive
The annual LRHS Food Drive ended on Thursday, December 1. Leesville ended in the Wake County competition with 2,218 pounds of food and $15,031.32 raised and donated to the Food Bank of Central…
-
‘Tis the season for Winterfest
On Tuesday, December 13, the Senior Class Council will host their annual auditions for the Winterfest Assembly. School leaders decided to alter the application process to better fit this year’s theme: the worldwide web.…
-
Unbelievable football season ends with bitter loss
“After everything we’ve been through, all the challenges and adversity we faced, I’m so proud of our guys. We had an unbelievable season, coaches as well as players. I couldn’t have asked for any…
-
Food Drive needs food: Donate beginning Nov 14
The Leesville Road High School Executive Council is announcing the kick-off of the school-wide fall Food Drive to begin today, Nov. 14. Sarah Martin, student body president, is looking for dedicated student, faculty and…
-
Photos from Pep Rally
Follow the link — http://lrhsnews.carbonmade.com/ — to see photos from the Fall Pep Rally. Hailey Stephenson, Senior Editor
-
Occupy Raleigh spends time pushing back
Protests have been taking place since October 15 at the South Side of the Capitol Building in Raleigh, North Carolina. These protests have been accordingly titled “Occupy Raleigh.” Inspired by the Occupy Wall street…
-
WFR @ LRHS Preview
On Friday, October 28, the regular high school football season will come to a close. The undefeated Leesville Pride is scheduled to play their rival, Wake Forest Rolesville, on Leesville’s Senior Night. If the…
-
Students…like…say “like” a lot
The word “like” is like, everywhere, man. Walking down a hallway at any high school in North America, it would be impossible to not hear this word. Teenagers insert it into sentences like a…
-
Varsity boys defeated in 2nd round of CAP 8, still hopeful for state playoffs
October 25, the Leesville boys soccer team lost 2-1 to Enloe High School in the second round of the CAP 8 playoffs. It prevents them from a chance to win the Championships, played on…
-
In Memoriam: Steve Jobs
On October 5, 2011, the world lost the visionary creator of Apple, Steve Jobs to pancreatic cancer. Jobs had been battling cancer for several years, and took medical leave from Apple in January just…
-
Volleyball smashes undefeated Wakefield
Thursday October 6, the Leesville Pride Volleyball beat number one, undefeated seed, Wakefield. “We did awesome,” said varsity coach, Taine Merganthaler. “I’m so proud of us.” The lady pride beat them 3 sets to…
-
Deathly darkness of doom
A strange happenstance occurred while I was on a casual stroll through my high school. One second, the lights were on, the hallway was bright and cheery. The next, the hallway plunged into a…
-
Vote for Leesville in the student section showdown
High school OT is currently holding a competition for the best high school student section. Voting for the winner is going on now and will continue until October 8. High school OT has held…
-
Jewish students celebrate Rosh Hashanah
On Thursday, September 29, Jewish Leesville students stayed home from school to respect Rosh Hashanah, otherwise known as the “Jewish New Year.” The first and second days of Tishri mark the days of Rosh…
-
A bright year ahead for Gay Straight Alliance
On Tuesday Sept. 6, Leesville’s Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) held its first meeting for the upcoming school year. The meeting consisted of get to know you games and covered the club’s plans for this…
-
9/11 as the Facebook Generation Sees It
Checking Facebook, it would be hard to forget what day it is. Statuses like “10 years on and we still remember, still grieve. Bless those who lost their lives or loved ones in 9/11,…
-
Senior Wall wows all
Gene Kim, Alec Swiniarski, Kristin Murphy, Josh Vigil and Nate Seaman, seniors, and Gabe Romero, junior, collaborated complete the senior wall for the 2012 graduating class. Kim created the original idea for the wall.…
-
Senioritis: A bittersweet farewell
It is with a (somewhat) heavy heart that I write my final Senioritis column. We seniors have less than two weeks of school left. We have made countdowns, set phone alarms and decorated the…
-
Soccer girls prepare for states
Friday, May 27 marks the end of a nearly perfect season for the ladies of Varsity Pride soccer. They have endured months of regular-season games and practices, five playoff games, and now, what they’ve…
-
Fiasco’s hosts art show for Honors Art IV students
On Monday, May 23, Jose Espinal’s Honors Art IV class presented their favorite works at the new restaurant Fiasco’s in Brierdale Shopping Center. This showcase, which is the first of its kind for most…
-
Scotty McCreery’s homecoming: “Garner’s proudest moment”
On Saturday May 15, Scotty McCreery, an American Idol top 3 finalist, returned to his hometown of Garner to perform at Lake Benson Park. To celebrate his homecoming, the town of Garner sponsored a…
-
Child actors grace Leesville
Last Thursday, April 28, Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30, Leesville’s theatre department put on the much anticipated musical, Cinderella. The school’s technical department spent weeks preparing excellent displays of lights, sound and…
-
Leesville track team competes in Cap-8 Conference Championship
On April 27 the Leesville Track and Field team traveled to Heritage high school to compete in the CAP-8 Conference Championship. The men placed second overall and the women placed fourth overall. Briefly before…
-
LRHS loses sophomore in tragic accident
Saleh Jamal Abdullah, 16-year-old sophomore, died Sunday morning, April 10, as a result of a driving accident. Abdullah pulled over the center line, over-corrected, and struck four trees at the speed of 45 mph.…
-
Prom 2011 a lacking experience
Leesville’s 2011 Prom was predicted to be a magical night full of beautiful dresses and marbles galore. However, there were key features that prevented the dance from reaching its ultimate potential. Actually, in a…
-
Pollen particles dominate early spring
Signs of spring are now visible at Leesville Road High School. Now that the trees have grown green once again, pollen has started plaguing LRHS students in the yearly “allergy season”. Allergy season starts…
-
There’s more than one way to succeed
When my grandfather graduated from Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, he graduated with an Education degree and a vocational education in carpentry. When he was going to college, black institutions required an additional vocational…
-
Prom proposals vary at Leesville
There’s a new kind of march madness circulating throughout Leesville, and I’m not talking about basketball. Every year upperclassmen boys compete to see who can come up with the most creative way to ask…
-
NEWS FLASH: Every American gambles illegally
Basketball fans, chances are you filled out a bracket for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Also, chances are that bracket is nowhere near close to actuality. And on top of all that you have to…
-
Vote for Leesville’s anti-littering video
A group of Leesville’s AP Environmental Science students is currently tied in a county wide contest for the best “anti-littering” video. The contest is sponsored by 86it.com, “the concourse of Wake County’s anti-littering movement.”…
-
Mr. Murphy, principal at LRHS from 1993- 2004, dies
On March 19, former LRHS principal Richard J. Murphy died after a lengthy bout with cancer. He was 62. Murphy worked in the Wake County Public School System for 36 years — including holding…