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Glenn Hard and Brad Borkowski cut the ribbon alongside construction students on Thursday, Nov. 30.
The home build at MSHS is complete
Teacher of the Careers in Construction class, Brad Borkowski, and his students prepare to open the house build to those in attendance of the unveiling.
Careers in Construction students present their house build
A group of students cast in the musical practice a group dance at MSHS on Oct. 16 to perfect the show. The students began rehearsal on Monday Oct. 2 and have been rehersing three days a week to put on an ideal show.
MSHS writes an original musical
MSHS students and teachers, featuring recently resigned Angie Glass, get prepared to start their help at Creek Week.
Environmental Club participates in 10th annual Creek Week
NHS member Brenna Cote goes to senior advisories on Friday Sept. 29 in attempt to get the last missing seniors to pre-register.
NHS pre-registers students to vote
Jazmyn Webb-Everly (12), Austin Durham (10) and Jeremy Webb-Everly (12) make spa products for Club Manitou.
SSN students create spa product company
Mr. Walker, English and Yearbook teacher and head of the Writing Lab, shares advice to current Manitou students. Walker has many great memories from high school; Taking part in Cross-Country. Performing in Montage, his school’s variety show. And the feeling of newfound freedom with his own car.
Teacher Throwback: Riley Walker
Tiffany Selz helps Kelsi VerVaecke(10) with her geometry on Nov 29 at MSHS. Selz has been teaching for eight years and recently was hired at MSHS on Oct. 23.
Selz fulfills a life goal
Ingrid Perez and friends pose in Guaninca, Puerto Rico High School.
Teacher Throwback: Ingrid Perez
Coral, Ido and Ori Shlomo visit Rocky Mountain National Park. The Shlomo family moved from Israel in april of 2022 and have enjoyed experiencing our different culture.
Shlomo family shares perspective on war
Kate Johnson(12), Liz Johnson(12), McKesson Rhodes(12), and Cassidy Blechmen(12) after tryouts on Nov. 16.
Winter Sports Preview: Girls Basketball
The 2023 MSHS wrestling team gathers at their summer wrestling camp to prepare for the season.
Winter Sports Preview: Wrestling
The girls swim team hangs out in the hot tub at the Manitou Springs Pool after a hard practice. This Thursday was the very last pre-season practice before the official season starts.
Winter Sports Preview: Girls Swim & Dive
Senior Basketball players Nate Gentzel (12), Sam Fournier (12) and Nick Schneider (12) posing in front of Jack Willie Gymnasium, ready for their 2023-2024 season.
Winter Sports Preview: Boys Basketball
The MSHS soccer seniors celebrate at senior night. They tied 3 - 3 for their game against James Irwin.(Beck Enquist, Jordan Somogyi, Gavin Smith, Graham Beckum, Ethan Beckum, Austin Courson, Jason Jones, Deric French, Evan Yount, Lucas Peixoto Sundquist, Josh Patterson, Bowman Hall, Nick Schneider)
Boys soccer ends with an impressive season and a lasting brotherhood
Upperclassmen experience a massive amount of academic stress and pressure as they approach their graduation.
Gap year after graduation?
Similarly to Friday the 13th, irrational superstition follows such entities as black cats, promoting a narrative of misfortune where, realistically, there should be none.
Friday the 13th: Is there reason behind the superstition?
MSHS lunch lady Teresa Leets serves Yonas Hanson (10) lunch. MSHS has been serving free lunches all school year.
MSSD14 students have free “Healthy School Meals for All”
Meleah Perkins, Counseling Secretary, gets to be a mom to Ben Perkins (10) at work and at home. The best part about being a mom is the excitement and happiness to just watch your kids grow up and become great adults, Perkins said.
Mother’s Day is about more than blood
While cattle and other animals have forever been taken to slaughter for their meat, lab grown meats offer a more merciful alternative.
Lab grown meat could change food industry
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the editor
Letter to the editor
Goosebumps has been a staple of youth horror fiction since the books have released, and had a successful TV series in the late 1990s.
Review: Goosebumps
Percy Jackson and the Olympians tv show will be released Dec. 20, 2023 on Disney Plus.
Book of the month – September: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
At this annual Larrys, MPAC President Kai Jacobson (11) and Vice President Meghan Taylor (11) took liberty in naming and presenting every award given.
The 2023 Larry’s: What to expect of this long standing tradition
Happy Place was released April 25 of this year.
Book of the month – May: Happy Place
Amber Malone painted the Cristo de la Concordia in Bolivia.
Students create art for WLACN
At this annual Larrys, MPAC President Kai Jacobson (11) and Vice President Meghan Taylor (11) took liberty in naming and presenting every award given.
The 2023 Larry’s: What to expect of this long standing tradition
The Cast and Crew of Too Many Daughters after arriving back at the High School with their 1st Place Trophy and Outstanding Supporting Actor Award.
MSHS wins Pikes Peak Regional One-Act Competition
At the end of the show, the characters celebrated Beowulf and Gunborg defeating Grendels mother.
MSHS performed their fall play: “Beowulf (and the Bard)”
Henry White (12) in the play Our Town that was performed in the fall of 2021.
Henry White leaves his mark on MSHS theater
Senior Koda Oxford recreates Shakespeares Hamlet. Theater was greatly restricted this year, and thespians were unable to act in traditional ways.
Koda Oxford’s finest hour
Annie Riggin works with Manitou choir teacher Abby Steen in preparation of her All-State Honor Choir performances.
Annie Riggin selected for Colorado All-State Honor Choir
The MSHS Symphonic Band plays the Fight Song as they round the track. The band practices for the parade every year.
MSHS band brings the sound of Homecoming
Lucas Grieb (12) & Lance Warner (12) pose for a band photo, outside in Manitou Springs, CO, with their guitars.
Euphoria: Manitou Springs High School’s up and coming band
Anton Akse (12), principal chair tuba, focuses on how his instrument sounds in the concert hall as opposed to the rehearsal space.
Abeel and Aske play in top youth orchestral group
Boulder Honor Band members Devin Rocha (11) and Hailey Matas (12) at their concert in Boulder.
It’s an Honor to be in Honor Band
Goosebumps has been a staple of youth horror fiction since the books have released, and had a successful TV series in the late 1990s.
Review: Goosebumps
Percy Jackson and the Olympians tv show will be released Dec. 20, 2023 on Disney Plus.
Book of the month – September: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
Happy Place was released April 25 of this year.
Book of the month – May: Happy Place
Amazon Prime recently released a series based off of the book Daisy Jones and The Six. It has been well received.
Book of the month – April: Daisy Jones and The Six
The set as it appeared at the end of In The Heights recreates the look of Washington Heights, New York in 2008.
Review: In the Heights
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Dalton Gates is a senior at Manitou Springs High School. He likes to write short scripts in his free time. His passions include film, writing and photography. Although, Gates hates The Breakfast Club. He is ecstatic to improve his writing and work collaboratively with others on The Prospector.

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November 24, 2023
Goosebumps has been a staple of youth horror fiction since the books have released, and had a successful TV series in the late 1990s.

Review: Goosebumps

Dalton Gates, Multimedia Editor
October 25, 2023
Coach Stuart Jeck and the football team celebrate a homecoming win on Friday Sept. 22. The Mustangs won against Prospect Ridge 53-0.

Manitou Springs celebrates another Homecoming

Dalton Gates, Jack Boyd, and Katelyn Fonkert
September 27, 2023
Alaura Wilson (11) works on an assignment during Advisory in Gilliams homework lab on Thursday Sept. 21.

[Photo] MSHS implements new work labs during Advisory

Jack Boyd, Senior Reporter
September 21, 2023
Alicia Mauer won the AVS Excellence in Science teaching award last year in Woodland Park.

Mauer joins science department

Dalton Gates, Multimedia Editor
September 19, 2023
Golf team leaders Jack Clifford (12) and Hayden Dorsey (9) are hopeful to make it to and win the state champion this season.

Fall Sports Preview: Boys Golf

Dalton Gates and Ari Clark
September 5, 2023
Ashur Lavigne (11) flashes a W while his team celebrates after the teams first win and football game of the season on Friday Aug. 25.

MSHS celebrates the Back to School Assembly and the first home football game

Dalton Gates, Makenzi VerVaecke, Jack Boyd, Cordelia Portman, and Kaleb Cervantes
August 30, 2023
The Steel Mustangs Robotics team poses in Houston at Worlds early this year.

The Steel Mustangs excel in competition this year

Dalton Gates, Senior Reporter
May 11, 2023
Spanish Club hosts regular events and projects for their members, from salsa dancing with chips and salsa to practicing their conversational Spanish at Spanish-owned restaurants.

Spanish Club teaches students language and culture

Dalton Gates, Senior Reporter
April 28, 2023
The set as it appeared at the end of In The Heights recreates the look of Washington Heights, New York in 2008.

[Photo] Review: In the Heights

Ari Clark, Senior Reporter
April 11, 2023
Rebecca Davis knows how to play both the Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, and is learning both Alto and Tenor Saxophone for the upcoming Spring Musical.

Rebecca Davis prepares for a life of music after high school

Dalton Gates, Senior Reporter
March 13, 2023

Letter to the Editor

Dalton Gates, Senior Reporter
February 24, 2023
The Cast and Crew of Too Many Daughters after arriving back at the High School with their 1st Place Trophy and Outstanding Supporting Actor Award.

MSHS wins Pikes Peak Regional One-Act Competition

Dalton Gates, Senior Reporter
February 16, 2023
Kai Jacobson (11) and Ari Clark (10) rehearse Fly on a Tapestry, directed by Elanor Fugate (12).

[Photo] Theater Department brings their scripts to life in student directed plays

Sadie House, Senior Reporter
February 3, 2023
Students were confused with all the different policies across all of their different classes, as some could range from very relaxed to very strict. This policy seems to have solved that issue for students.

Students respond to new late work and redo policies

Dalton Gates, Reporter
January 26, 2023
Key Club members finding some ways to get into the spirit of the season with music, costumes, decorations and Hallmark movies.

Talbott’s top Hallmark movies

Dalton Gates, Reporter
December 5, 2022
Finian Dufford (12) is an aspiring filmmaker who has other interests in theatre, art and photography.

Finian Dufford’s film nominated for Best Documentary

Dalton Gates, Reporter
November 11, 2022
Dalton Gates photo, The Long Ride, captures the rising sun as the Newspaper and Yearbook classes drive to the Colorado State University Fort Collins campus to partake in J-Day.

The Long Ride

Dalton Gates
September 22, 2022
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[Photo] Did the seniors REALLY win the spirit contest on Friday?

August 27, 2022
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