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  • High school will be high school

    Tuesday, May 22, 2012 By: Michael Gifford - editor in chief

    I have had the privilege of working and writing for the Talon all throughout my high school career. I have forged friendships, learned lessons in leadership, and worked my way from reporter to editor-

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  • From a big city girl to a small town: moving from NOVA

    Friday, May 18, 2012 By: Rachel Williams - features editor

    At the beginning of my junior year, I had no idea I would be graduating from Abingdon High School. I couldn’t even point out Abingdon on a map. I had lived near Richmond all of my life and could not i

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  • YOLO: You only live once

    Friday, May 18, 2012 By: Shelly Goldsmith - business manager

    Carpe diem: Seize the moment. Knowledge is power. No, no this just doesn’t sound right. Both these quotes imply that their subjects are uptight and cliché. To be sure, the Class of 2012 is neither of

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Talon Abingdon High School Abingdon, VA
Issue Date: Friday, May 18, 2012 Issue: May 2012 Last Update: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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The News for Abingdon High School

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You'll be ready
Freshman year will be one of the best years of your life for so many different reasons. You shouldn’t feel like you do not matter because you do. Some people, no matter what you do, will not like you,
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Game, set, match, repeat. Abingdon High School boys and girls tennis teams had no trouble clinching the title of Southwest District champions. Neither the girls nor the boys have played a district mat
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The Falcon baseball team has had a pretty successful season thus far.  In district play the team is 4-2 in district play with two district games left in the regular season.  The team started
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High school will be high school
I have had the privilege of working and writing for the Talon all throughout my high school career. I have forged friendships, learned lessons in leadership, and worked my way from reporter to editor-
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The Abingdon High School softball team is continuing their season with a winning record.  The ladies have been playing well in district and non-district games.  A major win for the team was
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The Virginia High School League has recently proposed a new realignment in the sporting and academic fields. The new system proposes that Districts will still be in play, but a loss in district play m
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The track team traveled to Knoxville, Tenn. to compete in the Volunteer Track Classic at the University of Tennessee. On Friday night, senior Maggie Knox placed 28th overall in the girls two mile run,
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The Abingdon High School’s girls’ varsity soccer team opened up their season on March 27 with an important victory against George Wythe and things seem to have only gone up from there. They have had a
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With wins over Marion (3-1), Carroll County, Tazewell and Richlands the Falcons continued their 8-game winning streak which was ended with a 2-1 loss against Virginia High. A win over Marion last week
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Sixty-year old William H. Neff Center teacher Manuael Dillow, is being charged on 12 counts of brandishing a firearm on school property, one charge for each of the 12 students he lined up and fired bl
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