Fact or Fiction
Jessica Fults, Feature editor
November 14, 2018
Filed under 2018-2019 issues, Focus
“Standing too close to the microwave causes cancer,” the headline flashes across the screen on Twitter. The ‘researchers’ who wrote the report found a correlation between the two. It sounds feasible, so it starts to rapidly spread throughout different social media platforms. The truth is, he...
October 2018 issue: In Living Memory
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
October 26, 2018
Filed under 2017-18 issues, Focus, Showcase
Remembering loved ones helps in processing grief
Not-so nuclear
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
October 26, 2018
Filed under Focus
In this issue staffers from the Central Focus explore unique families and the way they mold the kids who were raised in them
September 2018 issue: Blinded by the Blue Light
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
October 8, 2018
Filed under 2017-18 issues, Focus, Showcase
The September issue of the Central Focus contains stories about how technology has shaped an entire generation.
Chosen family
Chloe Bockhorst, Voice editor
September 12, 2018
Filed under Focus, Uncategorized
Lights pour out onto the stage, casting light onto the audience that is beginning to filter in. The wings surrounding the stage are dark, empty of the usual hive of busy students it holds. Even the green room, used to a constant stream on coming and going students, is empty. Production staff, crew h...
Assisting the community
PJ Sheehan, Beat editor
September 11, 2018
Filed under Focus
There have always been people in need in every community. From people needing a hand with finances to people who need food and shelter or even just warm clothes. With these people in the community there are people who are ready and willing donate their time to helping the less fortunate in their own...
Beyond expectation
Whitney Klein, Social media editor
September 11, 2018
Filed under Focus
Kids spend their childhoods being taught everything the state requires for their education, but most teachers go above and beyond their requirements when they form bonds and friendships with each and every one of their students; making kids feel like they mean something more than just a grade or a num...
Participating as a population
September 11, 2018
Filed under Focus
Typically, when Cottleville, Missouri is brought up in a conversation, the subject is amongst the following: sports, parks, and food. On the surface, there may not be anything particularly intriguing, but Cottleville is a city that hosts various exciting community-based events every month. (Home) ...
Cottleville connections
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
September 11, 2018
Various looks at how Central connects to the different aspects that make up the Cottleville community.
Painful progress
Whitney Klein, Voice editor
May 4, 2018
Filed under Central Focus, Focus, Publications
My eyes are open, but I can’t see anything. My hands are laying flat on something, I can’t place the feeling. I can’t place any feeling. I can’t move. Water hits my feet. It’s rushing over me. Faster, it’s bringing me under. My legs have gone under, my body, my head sinks under. I try to h...
Their stories: May issue full
Liz Baker, Web Editor-in-Chief
May 4, 2018
Filed under 2017-18 issues, Central Focus, Focus
Finding the Light
May 4, 2018
Filed under Focus
The pale walls surrounding Brianna English reflected how she was feeling: colorless. Numb. Empty. The room, however, was familiar; this was not her first stay in a psychiatric hospital. Her stepmother sat next to her on her bed — nothing more than a wood cot — at DePaul Hospital, where English had...
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