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The student news site of Manitou Springs High School

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The student news site of Manitou Springs High School

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MSHS Girls Volleyball on Dig Pink Night 2021 with Wendy Skokan before their game. This years game will occur on Oct. 20 @6 p.m..

MSHS supports breast cancer awareness with annual “Dig Pink Night”

Erica Sherwin October 13, 2022

This year the Manitou Springs High School girls’ volleyball team will be hosting Colorado Springs Christian High School in the Mustangs’ gymnasium on Oct. 20. This game is meant to promote breast cancer...

Musical chairs competitors get serious about victory!

MSHS brings back the homecoming pep rally

Makenzi VerVaecke, Reporter October 6, 2022

This year Manitou Springs High School’s Student Council (StuCo) brought back the homecoming tradition of a pep rally. The last traditional pep rally was in 2008, but over the years it has been forgotten...

Gay Straight Trans Alliance Vice President, Ari Clark, holds a rainbow heart in their hand as a symbol of support for the LGBTQ+ community.

Nebraska Student Newspaper Shutdown Raises Questions on Press Freedom

Jack Boyd and Meghan Taylor October 4, 2022

On May 19, the staff of Northwest Public High School’s Saga in Nebraska were informed of the immediate shutdown of their award winning school newspaper.  The shutdown was served 3 days after the...

MSHS cheer team losing 2 key seniors, but they will back strong in the fall.

MSHS brings in more cheerleaders with a new competition team

Morgan Flannery, Reporter September 30, 2022

The Manitou Springs High School’s cheerleading team has split into two branches, a strictly sideline side and a competition side. The team held a fall tryout at the end of August, which added seven new...

Lukas Merz and his host brother Charlie Morgan (12) pose on their porch in front of Pikes Peak.

German foreign exchange student experiences cultural differences

Katelyn Fonkert, Reporter September 22, 2022

Foreign exchange student, Lukas Merz, is a junior at Manitou Springs High School. Merz is from Germany and will be at MSHS for all of his junior year. This is Merz’s first time going to school in...

Key Club members volunteer for the Pikes Peak Marathon by making helpful signs.

Key Club serves Manitou Springs community

Halli Frost and Makenzi VerVaecke September 20, 2022

Manitou Springs High School’s Key Club is a student-led organization, advised by Mike Talbott, that teaches students how to give back to the community and work as a team to achieve goals. The club...

Sofiia Lobas (11) wears a traditional vishivanka and venok as she holds her home country of Ukraine’s flag.

Ukrainian foreign exchange student seeks shelter in Manitou Springs

Angela Rowe, Reporter September 12, 2022

Manitou Springs High School junior Sofiia Lobas is an exchange student from Ukraine. She spent her first exchange year (2021-2022) in Texas. Then she flew directly to Colorado this summer; foreign...

Hull leaves his mark on Manitou

Hull leaves his mark on Manitou

Morgan Flannery, Junior Reporter May 24, 2022

Next year, the halls of MSHS will missing a Manitou staple: Jesse Hull.  Hull resigned from his position as MSHS Principal on April 8, 2022 after 16 years of service. Hull taught social studies, was...

Zach Brown plays Kill Doctor Lucky with junior Lilly Noon at Game Con 2022. Brown co-sponsored Game Club with Mr. Gillard this year.

Zach Brown: Science

MaKenzi VerVaecke, Junior Reporter May 23, 2022

At the beginning of May 2022, science teacher Zach Brown put in his resignation from Manitou Springs High School to accept a new teaching opportunity at Liberty High School (LHS) in Academy School District...

Jessica Avery enjoys backpacking, hiking, skiing, climbing, swimming, knitting and reading.  Next year, she should have more time for them.

Jessica Avery: Social Studies

Angela Rowe and Ethan Anderson May 19, 2022

Jessica Avery, a second-year teacher at Manitou Springs High School, decided to resign this year because she felt like she could not make the impact on students the way she initially hoped. Avery began...

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