The year of 2017 really has been a great year for Wheat Ridge track and field with team members placing in the top three of their races: Senior Emily Gallegos-Francksen set a new record of 2:17.31 on the 800m at the Dakota Ridge Invitational. Sophomore Tiya Chamberlin earned 3rd place on the 1600...

Wheat Ridge has been showered with news this year, 2016-2017. Three principals and three teachers have decided to leave the premises and continue their journey doing something that they like to do, other than teaching at a high school. You might have heard rumors that several teachers have chosen t...

As a senior, I just had the pleasure of turning in my final capstone project, which I did mainly on the journalism aspect of my high school experience. In it, I wrote an essay in which I explore the topic of social media and how new-age journalism connects to it, and not in a good way. Two of the b...

Congressman Ed Perlmutter recently announced his bid for the 2018 Governor's election, on April 9, 2017 at the Natural Grocers in Golden Colorado. Perlmutter has been the Congressman for the 7th Congressional District since 2006, which consists of Arvada, Wheat Ridge, and Lakewood. Perlmutter has an e...

By: Lendsy Barriga A one minute glimpse wouldn’t inform you about the situation Colorado’s pine trees are in. A large number of pine beetles are devouring these poor trees as well as the food and habitats of many other animal species all over the country. The mountains are full of dead trees, a ...