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New Teacher at Tussey Mountain

By: Rylie Jacobs At Tussey Mountain we have a fantastic new teacher! Her name is Bethany Hershberger. She is an English teacher for seventh through twelfth grades. Before she came to teach at our school, she taught at Northern Middle School in North Carolina. She taught seventh and […]

Tussey’s drama club breaks the fourth wall

By:  Caleb Sopher The stage is set, curtains pulled, and as the light fades, the annual Tussey Mountain musical begins. It’s that time of the year again. This year’s choice is Into the Woods. The stress levels are on the rise and the curtains are closing in. Sophomore […]

Responsible 7th graders protect their egg babies

By:  Makenzie Droll For the first year, Valerie Morningstar had her seventh grade students do an egg project to teach her students about babysitting. Monringstar chose eggs because they are fragile, and they’re not expensive. Morningstar hard-boiled the eggs before the students got them. The students had to […]

Bringing South Korea to Tussey

By: Makenzie Droll On January 22nd April Collare came back to Tussey to visit Casey Flaherty’s history classes. Collare, a Tussey Mountain alum, traveled from South Korea to educate the tenth graders about her life in South Korea. Collare is studying at Hankuk University of foreign studies. “I […]

The season is over but the grind doesn’t stop

By:  Caleb Sopher The sun is setting on a Tussey Mountain season once again, but for the athletes, the sun is still shining bright. I got to learn from three athletes the common struggles of training for a sport. Putting time aside for practicing and doing homework is […]

Ceramic artwork “mixes well” at Tussey

By:  Alivia Melius Things are currently “heating up” in Tussey Mountain High School’s art department. Through connections with the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA), many new projects are now underway. As of Jan. 14, SAMA art in resident Robert Zabrosky began working again with students on “molding” […]

Titan Mental Marathon

By:   Makenzie Droll What a day! Students were busy on Thursday, January 23 attending their regular classes, posing for club pictures and running the Amazing Race.  The students had classes first and second periods, and at the beginning of the third period, the Sr. High (grades ten […]

D5 Champs Recognized

By: Colton Bishop In the month of January all the varsity football players got invited to a board meeting. At the meeting they presented the students of the month awards and towards the end of it the Titan football team got recognized for winning D5. We got called […]

TMHS student designs billboard for victim center

By: Alivia Melius For some, it may be difficult to create artwork surrounded by such a sensitive topic, but Tussey Mountain High School’s senior classman Cara Defibaugh was up for the challenge. On Nov. 21, Defibaugh entered her sketch to Your Safe Haven for a billboard in Saxton, […]