Having nothing but time on our hands is a foreign concept to our family. We used this newfound freedom to take to the garden that hadn’t been tended to in far too long. We hadn’t spent that kind of...

Calli Morris graduated from FHC in 2012, and went on to get her undergraduate degree in chemistry at University of South Carolina. She is now in her last year of medical school at University of Missouri...

Erica Swanson graduated from FHC in 2014, and now attends University of Missouri-Kansas City, majoring in Chemistry/ MD. Although she is in her last year of medical school, she is still a student, and...

Health care professionals are heroes to people every single day. However, the world has now come to need them even more. The sacrifices they make every day to aid the sick are crucial to the global effort...

It’s the first day of tryouts. Mackenzie Jones has been playing soccer since kindergarten, and is now in her senior year of high school. The cold March air is familiar, and so are the nerves. She has...

The choir and band programs were also supposed to have state competitions Sophomore and Bass vocalist Dakota Dunman recounts how everyone in choir was affected by the cancellation in a different way. Freshmen...

For DECA, the state conference and nationals, which a select number of members had qualified for, were cancelled. Vice president E’rmoni Redden was disappointed to see the hard work that the members...

HOSA was scheduled to have a state competition at Missouri University of Science and Technology, but the event was moved online as a precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Senior and secretary of...

Lacrosse is in the same situation as other sports at FHC, in that they are not permitted to practice in groups or compete in games or tournaments. Sophomore player Shelby Williams was devastated by the...

Maddie Bennett is a senior distance runner on the track team, which is not currently able to meet for practices or compete in meets. Although she was looking forward to her last season on the team, she...

  Senior varsity goalie for the girls varsity soccer team Caitlyn Brown feels that having her season cut short is taking away from what little time she has left in her soccer career.  “I...

On Sunday, March 15, the Francis Howell School District announced that all of its schools will be closed through April 22, due to the COVID-19 outbreak.  Although classes are currently scheduled...