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The Bucs' Blade

Grand Haven's student publication of community significance since 1927

The Bucs' Blade

Grand Haven's student publication of community significance since 1927

The Bucs' Blade

Matthew Pohl dresses as a beekeeper for Halloween. He uses a model of a bee hive to teach students about how bee keeping works.

Matthew Pohl Dresses Up as Beekeeper for Halloween

Peter Ver Duin and Nathan Burns October 31, 2023

Student advocate and safety coordinator Matthew Pohl dressed as a beekeeper for Halloween. As part of his costume, he set up a small beekeeping demonstration in the cafeteria on Oct. 31. The demonstration...

The Buc stop gets spooky

The Buc stop gets spooky

Sage Jarmosco, Reporter October 23, 2022

As Halloween rolls around the corner, The Buc Stop has planned fun activities for high schoolers. They include a drawing contest, witches hat ring toss, a candy corn jar guessing game, and a skull scavenger...

Trick-or-Treating locations for Halloween 2021

Trick-or-Treating locations for Halloween 2021

Emma Steury, Reporter October 27, 2021

Halloween is coming up quick and the tri-cities area is ready to celebrate! Here are three locations close to home sure to load up your bags and pillowcases with all kinds of treats. Haunted Haven The...

Christmas decorations are starting to be put up for the holiday season, but it's too soon.

Is it too early to decorate for Christmas?

Natalie Dupuis, Assigning Editor November 26, 2019

Every year after Halloween people begin to talk about Christmas and everything related to the holiday season. I understand why people are excited for Christmas, but that doesn’t mean they should push...

Pictured above is a newspaper clipping after Adam Provencal's death in 1992. (Photo courtesy of Lara Capuano)

October is a month of kindness

Natalie Dupuis, Assigning Editor October 30, 2019

Adams Acts are a recurring topic that is brought up every October at Grand Haven High School.  “It’s a good time for us to be able to have this kind of reflection where we need to be good to each...

Orchestra holds Halloween concert

Orchestra holds Halloween concert

Gabriella Amores, Reporter October 30, 2018

Monsters, Ghouls, Flutes, and bassoons? If you enjoy both music and Halloween, you should know about Grand Haven High School’s upcoming 2018 Orchestra Halloween Concert, on October 30th, this Tuesday...

CORNFIELDS, COSTUMES AND CULTURE, OH MY: Throughout the year, and especially on Halloween, people don clothes and styles of cultural significance to minorities. Wearing these styles, like cornrows, and treating them as costumes is cultural appropriation.

Culture is not a costume

Aliyah Austin, Reporter November 1, 2016

Sitting at my aunt’s feet, I slouched against the stained brown couch. Her dark hands tugged at my kinky curls. She detangled each ringlet, prepping my hair for cornrows. Once I was tangle-free, she...

When is it too old to trick-or-treat?

Abby Reyenga, Reporter November 2, 2015

I’m a late bloomer when it comes to trick or treating. At three, I wasn’t dressed up in a Winnie the Pooh costume and at eight, I wasn’t a Disney princess. Until the age of 11, Halloween barely...

5 things to do instead of trick-or-treating

Scott Bays, Reporter October 30, 2015

You might look too old or feel too old for trick-or-treating, but this shouldn’t preclude you from a good time this Halloween. Whether you want to skip the holiday all together or get involved with seasonal...

Annual Halloween orchestra concert to take place Oct. 29

Lily Ives, Reporter October 29, 2015

The annual Halloween orchestra concert is held in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. A creative tradition the Orchestra contributes to is having a theme for what...

Drama Club hosts movie night

Emily Bruch, News Editor November 1, 2014

The Drama Club will hold a movie night tonight at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center for those wanting to keep the Halloween spirit alive, and support the Drama Club. “It’s a great fundraiser,...

Meyers breaks into song for the closing piece, "Sweet Child O' Mine".

Throwback Thursday, Halloween edition

Elizabeth Tibbe, Co-editor in chief October 31, 2014

You would think a Halloween concert would feature “Monster Mash”, “Thriller” or “This is Halloween”. But orchestra director Melissa Meyers, took this years concert in a different direction. Backwards. Back...

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