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The Owl

The Student News Site of Boulder High School

The Owl

The Student News Site of Boulder High School

The Owl

BHS St. Baldrick’s Event:

Ella Gibney, Features and Insights Editor May 5, 2025

As I file through the gymnasium doors after school on March 19th, I find the gym filled with noise, laughter, and booming Y2K music uncharacteristic of any school event save the occasional rally. The...

Although the phone policy is stricter then ever before kids are on their phones just as much. Just now they are better at hiding them.

Is The Phone Policy Working?

Arlene Solis, Staff Writer May 5, 2025

It has been three months since BVSD enforced ‘Away for the Day’, a policy that requires phones to be turned off and in backpacks or lockers from 8:35 a.m. to 3:55 p.m. BVSD cited The Anxious Generation...

It is important to stay safe when being around any person struggling with mental heath or substance abuse issues, to understand people unlike yourself is to keep yourself safe. Educate yourself!

How Boulder Houses The Homeless

Lorelei Keppeler, Arts and Entertainment Editor May 5, 2025

Homelessness is a dilemma that consumes much of Boulder. Walking downtown on Pearl, around the bandshell, or along the creek path, you’ll inevitably encounter an unhoused person. Even though this is...

Artist Spotlight: Ava Baranyi

Artist Spotlight: Ava Baranyi

Lorelei Keppeler, Arts and Entertainment Editor January 29, 2025

Ava Baranyi, ‘26, is a talented digital artist here at Boulder High. She has pursued art for as long as she can remember and says it is special because “there are no limits.” Even though she feels...

On December 9th, 2024, Cole Morrow scored 31 points, a team high, against Summit High School. His performance led to him being named as player of the game.

Athlete Spotlight: Cole Morrow

Sasha Framularo, Sports Editor January 29, 2025

Cole Morrow, ‘25, is smashing his previous personal bests. Having played basketball since he was in 5th grade, Morrow has been setting and breaking personal bests for a long time. Last year, as a player...

Bitty and Beau's: Not Your Average Coffee Shop

Bitty and Beau’s: Not Your Average Coffee Shop

Ella Gibney, Features Editor January 29, 2025

On a random Tuesday, in desperate search of caffeine and sick of Starbucks sugar shots, I stepped out of the cold and into a random coffee shop on the corner of Fifteenth and Pearl. Not quite sure what...

Google's Quantum Computer Chip

Google’s Quantum Computer Chip

Greta Sterner, Staff Writer January 29, 2025

Every day, we see enormous numbers of advertisements, headlines, and topics, many of these declared “Breaking News” in order to gain traffic rather than to inform the public about important subjects....

The Boulder High Auditorium has many events, and therefore can accumulate a lot of trash. If not cleaned up, the trash can lead to rats and other vermin in the auditorium. Not picking up trash is an additional example of a lack of respect that is held by the student body for our shared spaces.

How COVID-19 has Impacted Theater Etiquette

Vivian Thomasset, Staff Writer January 29, 2025

It has now been five years since the first outbreak of COVID-19, which, as we all know, led to a global shutdown that affected businesses and people and intensely impacted the theatrical community. It...

Cyber Trucks can be widely seen around Boulder.

Cyber Truck or Garbage Truck?

Lucy Paradise, Editorial Editor January 29, 2025

In an era where blue Subaru Outbacks once dominated suburban roads, drives, boulevards and what have you, Tesla’s Cybertruck has emerged as a peculiar anomaly in the automotive industry. As if the 2020s...

Wicked, a film recreating the Broadway show, and book makes $164 million in its first week since being released to theatres.

Wicked Movie Review

Greta Sterner, Staff Writer December 18, 2024

Recently, one of the major topics in Broadway and pop culture has been the movie recreation of Broadway popular show “Wicked,” a spin-off from the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire. This book was written...

The standard-size lockers found throughout most of the school measure about fifteen inches across.

The Third-Floor Locker Scandal

Ella Gibney, Features Editor December 18, 2024

The third floor of Boulder High School is known for three things: the world language wing, getting freshmen lost, and the air conditioning that tries day in and day out to give us all hypothermia. But...

On September 26th, Boulder High girls field hockey took on the Smoky Hill and Cherokee Trail combined team at Boulder's home field of Angevine Middle School.

Athlete Spotlight: Marley Farrior

Sasha Framularo, Sports Editor December 18, 2024

September Athlete of the Month, Marey Farrior, ‘25, is fairly new to field hockey. She began playing as a sophomore at Boulder High, in the team's first year, making this her third year playing. Field...

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