Recap: Kennedy finishes football season at 8-4
Ethan Divis
November 11, 2013
It will be a season that Cougar fans won’t soon forget. Kennedy lost a hard fought battle to Xavier 21-0 in the state quarterfinals to put a close to their season. They finish at 8-4. “Really happy with our seniors. Really happy with the fact that they were able to play 12 games and there’s...
Kennedy 35 Assumption 12
Ethan Divis
November 5, 2013
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A physical Kennedy football come out and out muscles the other team en route to a win. Kennedy did just that as they upset second ranked Davenport Assumption 35-12 in the second round of the playoffs on Monday night. The win punches Kennedy’s ticket into...
Kennedy 42 Prairie 14
Ethan Divis
October 31, 2013
Kennedy head coach Tim Lewis wants his team to peak at the right time. It looks like his ballclub is doing just that as Kennedy (7-3) steamrolled Prairie 42-14 (5-5) in the first round of the playoffs behind another dominate running attack and another impressive showing from the Cougar defense. “We’re...
Flu bug avoids Kennedy
Hannah Bruns
January 28, 2013
Every winter, from December to March, the flu bug sweeps across the nation. Students all over miss school, while still passing it from friend to friend. It seems Kennedy has missed the punch. Thousands of students miss school every day due to influenza related illnesses. The winter months, especially...
Teacher Talents: Kris Hellweg
Tara Mittelberg
January 25, 2013
When science teacher Kris Hellweg was a child, her parents made she and her three siblings take piano lessons for one year. Although none of her brothers or sisters continued with the hobby, Hellweg has been playing since she was six years old. At age eight, she switched teachers and began working...
The passing problem
Hannah Bruns
December 18, 2012
Every day during passing time hundreds of students fill the hallways of Kennedy. Tight spaces become full of pushes, high five, and the blur of talking. After last year’s redistricting plan the question of Kennedy being over crowded is still very alive in the minds of students, teachers, and parents....
December weather changes
Hannah Bruns
December 4, 2012
This past week’s dropping numbers have left Cedar Rapids feeling the heat. Entering December in the low 60’s, students were buzzing about the abnormal temperatures. Although this “winter weather” seemed quite strange to some, news casters say this was not the highest December has ever been....
Rush is on for winter fitness
Hannah Bruns
November 15, 2012
It's always hard to find time to get in a quick workout. Between school, random jobs, and computer time we all struggle with fitting in a few crunches, some push-ups, and maybe even a couple toe touches.
Paying the price
Torch Coverage
October 6, 2011
Gage Cooper found out the hard way how the Kennedy High School disciplinary procedure works. Last year Cooper, then a junior with every expectation of graduating from Kennedy, was caught with marijuana in his car and arrested twice for underage drinking. “It was mostly just being in the wrong place...
