Wednesday, February 13, 2013 By Thomas Cooper & Willie Spencer Bullying For months certain students have been talking about you behind your back. You are getting nasty messages on your phone. The kids who were mean to you last week are threatening to beat you up. Someone full story	Friday, March 01, 2013 By Demri Cameron [ArticleImageHyperLink] Stop Teens Driving Distracted     According to the U.S. government’s website www.distraction.gov, sixteen percent  of drivers of fatal car crashes concerning distracted driving were under 20 years of age. full story
Thursday, February 28, 2013 By Allison Miller What is a hate crime? A hate crime occurs when someone commits a crime against a person or community that is motivated in whole or part by prejudice or bias attacks. Victims of hate crimes are singled out simply because o full story	Wednesday, February 13, 2013 By Mariah Kolves & Cailene Beaird Sexual Harassment, a special form of bullying Sexual Harassment, a specific type of bullying, has become a national problem. Sexual harassment is any unwanted or inappropriate sexual attention, which could be in the form of a touch, a look, a com full story
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 By Halie Lane & Marissa Adkins Cyberbullying Cyber bullying is defined as bullying that takes place using electronic technology including devices and equipment such as cell phones and computers as well as communication tools including social med full story	Thursday, September 06, 2012 By Kari Boyett & Mariah Kolves New first grade teacher has ties to the community One of the many new faces on the grade staff is that of first grade teacher, Jodi Merrick, wife of Jeff Merrick and daugher-in-law of Connie Merrick who has worked for years at Astoria Schools as an a full story
Thursday, September 06, 2012 By Cailene Beaird & Allison Miller With teachers moving to different grades, AGS gets a new special ed teacher Casey Logan, the new special education teacher in grade school now that Mrs. Kathy Cheatum is teaching third grade, graduated from Vandelia High School, but she lived in nearby Patoga. She went to Gre full story	Thursday, September 06, 2012 By Demri Cameron & Valery Westbrook Former AHS student returns as teacher Miss Staisha Dean, daughter of Laura and Brian Dean and a past graduate of Astoria High School who now joins her former teachers on the staff of Astoria High, Junior High, and Elementary Schools, had full story
Thursday, September 06, 2012 By Halie Lane & Marissa Adkins New Spanish/History Teacher at AHS Astoria High School has a new Spanish and history teacher, Kelcie Brasel. Before she got her first full-time job at AHS, she was a substitute teacher and also worked at a school outside of St. Louis a full story	Tuesday, August 28, 2012 By Thomas Cooper & Willie Spencer New P.E. and Health teacher at Astoria Schools Clayton Hatfill is a p.e and health teacher for Astoria Schools. His parents, who were both teachers at Lewistown High School, influenced his decision to become a teacher as well. He enjoys teaching y full story