Naomi Thomson, social media staff
April 23, 2018
Since age 2, Collin Thompson, senior, has faced many obstacles concerning a task that for others is muscle memory: walking. Collin was diagnosed with mild cerebral palsy...
Grace Murphy, features writer
April 18, 2018
Football was his only escape. His only way to get away from the gangs, the drugs, the life he did not want. He continued to fight, to work hard, to channel his emotions o...
Jonathan Munroe, news-features writer
April 5, 2018
Tami Melton, special school district teacher, stands on the Essex parking lot at 7:30 a.m. awaiting the arrival of her students. As the buses pull up alongside her, the day ...
Megan Cleveland, features writer
April 23, 2018
She sits across the room and watches as her student trembles in their chair. Long sleeves cover the students scarred arms and the talk of suicide consumes the room. For Ceci...
Thomas Birmingham, in-depth editor
April 19, 2018
The sounds of celebration erupted from the group sitting in the crowded restaurant, but her brown eyes remained fixated on the paper in front of her. Esperanza Aguilar, junior,...
Charlotte Heinrich, features writer
March 16, 2018
Some would say the “recycling bin” of KHS seems to be half full. I would ask, is the recycling even being recycled? On a dreary Monday night this January, a cus...
Charlotte Heinrich, features writer
February 12, 2018
Have you ever seen any movie about high school without couples all around campus? Yeah, didn’t think so. In our culture, couples are a major part of high school life, and K...
January 22, 2018
According to KSDK, thousands carried their experiences with injustice across the length of Market St. on Saturday, Jan. 20. TKC talked with a few of these many voices and ...
December 14, 2017
Some TKC staffers and Pioneer staffers attended the Journalism Education Association (JEA) conference Nov. 15 to Nov. 17. Throughout the conference, we went around the c...
Charlotte Heinrich and Hannah Cohen
November 28, 2017
Nancy with granddaughter Kennedy “My husband is in the hospital and has been there for 11 days, and will be there for a few more,” Nancy said. “We’re getting all the things that we need. We won’t have h...