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The Pony Express

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The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

Special Olympics Student Board member Liam Chau strikes a pose.

October is Down Syndrome awareness month

Camryn Handberg Cathleen Costello, Photography Editors October 1, 2024

October was first designated as Down Syndrome awareness month in the 1980's and has been recognized every October since. It is a time to celebrate people with Down Syndrome and make others aware of their...

Harrison in the wrestling gym where she teaches Unified PE

Harrison retires after 28 years of teaching

Soel Riser, Social Media Editor June 2, 2023

Paula Harrison has had an astonishing career teaching gym and has decided to retire at the end of this year. Harrison has been able to help a lot of people throughout her career. People view school...

Senior general education student Leah Foster and special education student play in the foam pit. During Unified PE, the students are paired together to work together in many different types of activities.

Students united through physical education

Maya Disher, Photography Editor-in-Chief and Copy Editor December 17, 2022

High school is a time when students get to learn how to work and communicate with their peers. They create friendships and learn skills that will be carried into other aspects of their life. These four...

Science teacher Staci Brown receives the Partnership Award for her work in the school community. The award shines light on the work that staff do.

High school teachers receive Partnership Plan award

Shannon Pothen, Layout Editor May 30, 2022

Every year, teachers and staff from across the district are chosen to receive the Partnership Plan award. Based off of their commitment to students and exemplary difference they make in the lives of students. ...

Zoom Screen of testifying students and congress members.

TRUST Club members testify before Congress

Brooke Elfert, Business Editor & Distribution Editor April 20, 2022

"I want everybody to be inclusive of everyone. That's the point of TRUST club is that we include everyone and make all people feel like they're part of the school," physical education Teacher, Paula Harrison...

Brookview Elementary Principal, Chris Rogers, plunges in a shark costume to celebrate his fifth grade students read a thon goals.

TRUST club plans polar plunge, raises money for Special Olympics

Lauren Guinee, Business Editor and Copy Editor April 14, 2022

The TRUST club hosted the Polar Plunge at the high school on March 28. The event came via a portable water tank for volunteers to plunge into. Stillwater students and community members were invited...

Students in Mrs. Harrisons P.E. class do fun activities with friends.

Unified PE offers an inclusive experience for all

Tucker Wyland, Podcast Reporter March 7, 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the globe, people are finding new ways to bring back normalcy and adapt to the ever changing world. The Unified PE class, under the direction of Unified PE teacher...

Paula Harrison and the Unified class follow along to a dance video. Dancing is one of the many activities students enjoy together in this class.

Paula Harrisons journey in teaching creates unity

Ella Hamilton, Social Media Editor November 18, 2020

Paula Harrison looked down at the icy cold water, grabbed the warm hands of the anxious teenage students next to her and they jumped in. The freezing lake water was so cold that when her body hit the water...

This is the new seating arrangement in the cafeteria for the 2020 school year. The cafeteria looks very quiet and empty due to the individual desks and the reduced number of students attending to lunch.

COVID-19 creates new cafeteria set up

Ella Hamilton, Social Media Editor October 1, 2020

This 2020 school year is already unlike anything ever seen. One of the many differences is the cafeteria. Inside the cafeteria, students see individual desks spread out six feet apart so the contact between...

Senior Rachel Folden spends time with a fellow TRUST buddy. Building trust and friendships during meetings every  Wednesday strengthens the heart and mind to include anyone and everyone.

TRUST club pushes for inclusion among students

Rosie Nichols, Layout Editor March 5, 2020

The Pony TRUST club began with a push for inclusion among the student body, as well as staff members. The program betters relationships between students with or without disabilities by promoting acceptance...

Physical Education teacher Paula Harrison turns the class over to seniors Noah Pasiuk and Thomas Haggard. They teach the class how to play basketball.

Harrison creates a more unified school through physical education

Paige Speedling, Distribution Reporter March 30, 2019

Paula Harrison is a physical education teacher who has been teaching in Stillwater since 1995. Unified Physical Education, or Unified PE, is a new course she added for the current school year. Unified...

Paula Harrison is the leader of the TRUST buddy club and an unified PE teacher. She had decided to reschedule the plunge to March 1.

Polar Plunge delayed due to weather

Nathaniel Willius, Distribution Reporter February 16, 2019

A Polar Plunge is an event in which the participants jump into a cold lake. There was one planned for Feb. 9, for when some students were going to participate to help raise money for T.R.U.S.T buddies...

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