Taking time to be thankful for the women in our lives
By DEVYN LANSDEN, Editorial Editor March is Women’s History Month. I wanted to use that as an excuse to write…
Graybill has passion for painting
By JORDAN GREEN, Editor-in-Chief When clouds fill the sky over Alva, Calvin Graybill doesn’t stay inside his house. He runs…
Amid pandemic, pets find fur-ever homes: People adopted pets in 2020 to ward off sense of loneliness, shelters say
By JORDAN GREEN, Editor-in-Chief The month was July, and Sam Gentry was dog tired of living without a furry friend.…
Just a small town girl
By DEVYN LANSDEN, Editorial Editor I graduated with 27 kids in my class. That usually shocks many people. But what…
Growing up living a big city life
By ERICK LIVINGSTON, Student Reporter People have debated for years: Should they move to a big city or small town…
Schwerdtfeger fosters children for nearly four decades
By LANEY COOK, Student Reporter It was Mother’s Day. Nothing out of the ordinary was expected to happen. But that…
New mass communication professor hired
By ALIYAH BIDWELL, Student Reporter Dr. John Ellerbach is a new professor of mass communication at Northwestern. Q: What brought…
Northwestern student receives her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
By OVELL PATTERSON, Student Reporter As the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, citizens around the world are being…
Local police officer hopes to help people
By LANEY COOK, Student Reporter The middle of March in southern Texas is an extreme difference in weather compared to…