After a summer that seemed much too quick, it’s time to return to school. For us, that includes continuing to work on the Range. We are the Mountain Range Editorial staff, or the Newspaper team. We all took Journalism in previous years, and enjoyed it enough that we decided to come back as editors.
Our job is pretty neat. We get to polish up the website for our school paper, manage the incoming articles, and we get to create our own articles. Throughout the course of this year, everyone can have chances to learn so many new things about being in a leadership position. As the year goes on, we will be helping manage and work on articles for the Range, while the Journalism students learn how to and begin to create content.
Although we all joined Journalism for various reasons, we ended up loving it all the same. We hope to be able to both continue what we started as members of the Journalism team, but also to improve the Range and leave it better than we found it. Being editors gives us more responsibility, but at the same time more ways to help push the Range even further. Our improvements to the Range will continue to keep it alive for future members and writers, as well as readers, and help spark that same love in others. We have this opportunity to advance the paper, and to keep it relevant, keep it important, and most of all: keep it true to our school.
Without further ado, the Range’s Editorial Team for the 2024-2025 school year:
Isabella W. is an aspiring 17 year old girl who has big plans for the future. She wants to study Journalism in college from the inspirations of Mr. Adamsky, a Journalism teacher at Mountain Range High School. She started writing when she was in elementary school and found it came easy to her. In 6th grade she got an A on her first personal narrative which would encourage her to keep writing. She started reading after reading Frindle by Andrew Clements in 1st grade and hasn’t stopped reading books from multiple other genres since. She’s in hopes for a volleyball scholarship to go to her dream school Colorado Mesa University which is where her brother attends. When Isabella isn’t in school she is on the volleyball court or with her friends or laying in bed watching movies on her projector.
Benny M. is a nerdy teen with lots of knowledge, whether useful or not. He joined Journalism as a sophomore at Mountain Range High School, because it sounded fun and he wanted to try new things. He enjoyed it so much that he chose to repeat the class as an editor for his junior year. When he isn’t doing absolutely nothing on the couch even though he has schoolwork, you can find him curled up with a good book in a comfy chair, painting miniatures, or doing something related to star wars and/or lightsabers. He listens to audiobooks of his favorite titles, like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Lightning Thief or Magnus Chase, both by Rick Riordan. He is a theater nerd through and through, and usually works on the build and lights crews for productions he is in. He also is in the TSA club, and competes along with the rest of the MRHS TSA chapter every year. Benny enjoys researching current events in the scientific world, as well as watching Marvel shows and movies and comparing them to the comics. He is frequently found captaining his ship The Pyro Hawk in Sea of Thieves with his loyal crew, and participates in the foam-flinging hobby of nerfing when he can.
Lucid C. may be riddled with ADHD, with perhaps a touch of the ‘tism, but when they want to
work hard, they do. As a senior at Mountain Range High School, Lucid can be found in one of two places: socializing with one of very few friends or dead asleep in their room. At 17, Lucid has published a collection of short stories and is currently co-writing their first novel. Lucid participated in Journalism in their junior year and is now an editor for The Range. While they’re excited to graduate in June, Lucid is afraid of losing contact with their friends, so they’ve made a promise to make this year the best year ever.