Photo by Lizbeth Perez CAPTION: Senior defensive end Robert Perez celebrates a Husky touchdown following a reverse by senior John Duhon. This past Friday, the varsity football team played against the Highland Owls at Alamo Stadium, with the Huskies winning in incredible fashion 33-22. The team was mesmerized by the huge stadium and locker room they…Continue Reading Huskies win over Highlands, 1-1 on the season
CAPTIONS: Candidates for homecoming royalty created and posted posters with slogans on them, encouraging their fellow students to give them their vote. By Brittany Valdez and Elle Hoose The Homecoming Candidates for the 2016-2017 School Year have been announced and voting is taking place during lunches now. Running for Freshman Lord: David Cantu, Jesus Rivera,…Continue Reading Homecoming Court Announced, Voting Today, Tomorrow
photo by Brittany Volz CAPTION: The Huskies take the field with senior captain Jay Cruz carrying the American Flag during the breakthrough. This past Saturday the Holmes Huskies Varsity football team played Sam Houston at Gustafson stadium, falling to the Hurricanes 37-14. Despite the loss, there was still some great action on and off…Continue Reading Huskies Look to Come Back from tough first game loss
The other day, I was thinking back to this lesson a few months ago in Pre-Cal where my teacher was explaining linear and angular speed. I’m not some nerd who just thinks about random lessons from class for fun, but there were some words my teacher shared during this lesson that stuck withme. He went into…Continue Reading OPINION: The purpose behind all of this school
After high school most students are heading off to college or to the work force, but graduating senior Francisco Villafranca he has something else in mind for his future. Instead of attending college after high school, Villafranca is taking a controversial gap year. For 6 months he is going to live in Africa and do…Continue Reading Graduating senior Villafranca opts for Africa over college
In the most recent edition of the Gavel, the People Issue, we covered a group of students that have come from different backgrounds all over the world to call Holmes home. These ESL students interviewed each other and wrote news stories about one another based on their lives before and after coming to America….Continue Reading People Issue: ESL Students share journeys to make Holmes their home
Asylum by Madeleine Roux is a horror fiction book. Dan Crawford, a junior in high school, decides to attend a college camp during the summer in the New Hampshire College. The dorm in which the students will be residing was an old sanatorium (also known as an asylum) used for the criminally insane that had been…Continue Reading Book Review: Asylum
By Lizbeth Perez, Staff Writer It would just be a house if there was no family. Families can create an environment of comfort, unconditional love, a judgement free zone, and they can have more of an influence on a person’s life than anything else. For some, family is their source of motivation. Junior Ryan Schuessler…Continue Reading Making Moves: Vegan, chess-player, and advanced student, Schuessler fueled by big ideas
In between classes and at lunch, you might hear a conversation like this: “Dude, did you go to the football game last night? It was so intense!” “No, I went to this show and got to meet this cool band that performed.” Many students would rather go to a music show than a school event because…Continue Reading Local Venues provide off-campus activities for students into music
Next school year, parking regulations will be a bit different for most juniors and seniors. Many students know the struggle of finding a parking spot on campus, and the administration is doing their best to bring about a fair solution to the problem. According to Assistant Principal Vicente Arcos, the limited spots will go to seniors first, leaving…Continue Reading Next year’s limited student parking spots will go to seniors first