Experiencing something new each day, meeting different people, and learning how to finally become and adult in this world, beginning a new chapter in life all while stressing to receive an acceptance letter from that dream school. Senior Rachel Ramirez plans to attend Texas Christian University (TCU)...

Senior Richard Ritter stands in the soccer field. Bright lights shine from all directions. He notices the opposing team on the other side of the field. Ritter's heart beats fast and his mind races. The nerves of anticipation build stronger as he knows he must play his hardest to win the game. “When...

Five movies in four years. I remember when I was in middle school obsessing over Jacob and having trillions of posters hanging in my room. (Everybody did this. Do not judge.) You will be glad to know I took down all the posters and sold my books. My new obsession is One Direction and my dog. Anyways...

Warming Up Chairs are lined across the front of the stage like plastic soldiers. The players gather, unpacking their scripts and conversing as they prepare for warm-ups lead by senior Christina Cranshaw. “Warm-ups,” someone calls. Everyone approaches the stage, forming a circle, and begin...

Key Club sponsored a donation fund called Items for Soldiers where students brought necessary items for soldiers stationed overseas. The second block class who brought the most items won an ice cream party. English teacher Lauren Dill’s class won the contest bringing a box full of items like wet...

Cell phones have many potential educational uses for teachers and students. Mansfield Independent School District allows students have phones in their possession but the cell phones, however have to be turned off and out of sight. Cell phones should be allowed in the school for classroom related purposes...

The Evening of Short Plays, the last winter production for this year plays from Thurs., Dec. 8-10 at 7 p.m. and Sun. Dec 11 at 2 p.m. in the Preforming Art Center. “The show is going well. We are doing a lot better as it progresses,” Madison Fountain, 10, said. “People are starting to realize...

Fall has officially arrived which means television shows are coming back with new seasons. Come on, we all know that once you get home from school the first thing you do is sit on the couch and turn on and flip through the television. Here are some television shows that just might have you sitting on...

All through middle school, I was trying to find a group, a place that I belong. I wasn’t a good singer, had difficulty just holding the flute, was an average student and definitely was not athletic. The first year of high school, I vowed to myself that I would become involved in school someway or another. I...

There are a set of common etiquette rules all people are expected to follow whether at school or even just in their front yard. I was raised in a house where if we didn’t respect our parents or the elderly it was considered the most horrible thing a child could do and was immediately punished for it....

In an effort to allow students the opportunity to participate in a charity, Principal Des Stewart has brought the A.R.I.S.E. Movement, a global outreach program, to Legacy. Standing for Achieve, Reach, Inspire, Stand-Out and Empower, the movement hopes to inspire, encourage, empower and nurture children...

Methodist Mansfield Medical Center will present The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s performance at the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 2 at 2:30 p.m. DSO on the Go will perform their Pop Series with Christmas Music. It will include classical pieces and popular light classics with...

Junior Cynthia Garza looks at the time, remembering all the upcoming meeting she has the following day. Garza involves herself in Key Club, Interact Club, Criminal Justice, Drama Club, Chess Club, Hispanic Students Council (CHE), Spanish Club, National Honor Society (NHS), UIL: Prose and Poetry, Ready...

The “Shake and Stack” program helps the district’s phase two initiative to save money via conservation and energy management. The district’s support departments came up with the idea and decided unanimously that it was time to embrace a genuine recycling program on a large scale. The process...

Junior Alex Tomme walks into the kitchen, fastens her chef coat and washes her hands. She grabs eggs and blueberries from the refrigerator and heads to the stove in preparation of cooking breakfast burritos and blueberry muffins. Because of her mom and Food Network, Tomme became interested in cooking....

With baseball season over, many basketball fans look forward to the upcoming NBA basketball season. Unfortunately, the lockout has placed the 2011-2012 basketball season on hold because the team owners want to earn more money by cutting players salaries.  NBA revenues (from parking, souvenirs,...

Hunting for Easter eggs, eating chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps represent some of the activities people engage in during the Easter season. Easter developed its many traditions and rituals through many cultures from around the world. Reason and Date For a little over 2,000 years, Christians...

As the tardy bell rings, everyone saunters into class with bags of cookies and heads straight to their computers, pulling up the unfinished yearbook pages that were due on the same day. Adviser Leland Mallett quickly comes out of the of his office making sure to greet the people coming in. “Check...

Senior Marisa Moore sits down in the burgundy theater seats and waits for the movie to begin. The lights dim as the bright green screen showing the rating appears. Listed after movie trailers and before TV shows, ratings are a way to inform the general public about the content of what they are about...

Junior Carleigh Baker steps into a tanning bed not realizing every minute she lays under the lights she increases her risk for one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer— melanoma. Ever since the introduction of tanning beds in the 1970s, there has been a significant increase in melanoma, a malignant...

Senior Jessica Molina can almost feel the last day of the school year here. As everyday passes her excitement grows bigger and bigger knowing graduation nearing, her life beginning and not having to be in highschool anymore. After high school Molina plans on going to Tarrant County Community College...

Senior Brittany Sutton remembers seeing her mother sitting by the phone every Sunday, waiting for it to ring. Her mom yearning to hear her son’s voice. The whole day her mom refused to leave the house and would start crying if he didn’t call right away. Sutton’s brother served four years active...

Junior Briana Longoria stands backstage waiting to sing. As the bright stage lights hit the stage, Longoria walks on looking out to the audience to search for her family. On seeing them, her stage fright leaves and her nerves calm down. The music plays and she beings the song. Having started choir...