It takes Courage: Senior Ropes in New Album

Leanne Haas, Co-Editor
May 17, 2013
Filed under Features

When Senior Tori McClure was eleven years old, she took her first guitar lesson. “My mom just kind of stuck me in a guitar class as something to keep me busy- and once I picked it up, I never put it down,” she said. Three years later, on her 14th birthday, she had her first gig at Main Street... Read more »

Senior’s rodeo art sells for $25,000

Leanne Haas, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 17, 2013
Filed under Features

Senior Amanda Jentzch didn’t expect what she was about to hear, her heart pounding faster and faster, as she stood in front of the crowd of bidders at the rodeo eying her artwork as if she were showing an animal. She held up her detailed colored-pencil drawing, the one she spent over 67 hours on,... Read more »

Understanding the teen brain

Alexis Alguilar, Staff Writer
May 17, 2013
Filed under Features, Top Stories

Imagine you’re driving after you just got your license. It’s dark and no one is out. The speed limit is 45, but you decide it’s okay to go around 60. It’s a straight flight. Your foot gently increases the pressure on the gas pedal. The thrill becomes an immediate transaction of adrenaline. Your... Read more »

The Pickle Man a part of Tomball lore

Leanne Haas, co-editor in chief
February 13, 2013
Filed under Features

It’s official - the famous statue Tomballians have passed every time they drive on Main Street for over a decade has an identity: it’s a pickle. Originally green, the “Pickle Man,” as many have come to know the cylindrical smiling statue, has had a long run in Tomball. Before Pickle Man had... Read more »

Blue Bell Ice Cream & Trucks

Alexis Aguilar, Staff Writer
February 13, 2013
Filed under Features

As she sits down, strands of her hair fall across the stripes of her starry bandana, her own American bandana. "I’m America today," she says as she raises her head a little higher and smiles proudly. It wasn’t always like this for Maria Krasnova, one of Tomball’s foreign exchange students. America... Read more »

Are you the Police? No ma’am we’re Musicians

Rain Shanks, co-editor in chief
February 13, 2013
Filed under Features

Even if you don’t know the name of the restaurant, you’ve probably seen the two iconic suited characters from The Blues Brothers sitting on top of it while driving through downtown Tomball: Main Street Crossing. What started as a non-profit establishment for worship and recovering drug and alcohol... Read more »

One Small Step

Leanne Haas, co-editor in chief
February 12, 2013
Filed under Best of CC, Features, In-Depth, Top Stories

He sat in his usual spot - a red and blue plaid rocking chair placed in the corner of the room, next to the kitchen in the home that he built himself. The television is muted; he is watching the news, his usual station. Occasionally, he leans in and cups his hand around his left ear. “I’m sorry,... Read more »

Dealing with doomsday

Click to view graphic on previous dire predictions (courtesy OnlinePsychologyDegree.net)

Leanne Haas, co-editor in chief
January 9, 2013
Filed under Best of CC, Features, Uncategorized

Grab your grocery carts, doomsday preppers. Canned corn is aisle 3. Ramen noodles, aisle 2. Surviving the apocalypse for dummies can be found in the book section. And if you just took the previous sentences seriously, you are probably building your bomb shelter as this is being read. No need to panic,... Read more »

Shah captures Miss Tomball crown

Leanne Haas, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 20, 2012
Filed under Features, Photos, Top Stories

Rachael Shah, a junior from Tomball Memorial High School, captured the crown in the 47th annual Miss Tomball pageant, held at Salem Lutheran Church on Nov. 17. Shah receives a $1,000 scholarship from HEB and will serve as Miss Tomball for the upcoming year. Following Rachel was Tomball High student... Read more »

A familiar stranger

Leanne Haas, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 12, 2012
Filed under Best of CC, Features, Top Stories

Bailey Swanson doesn’t know him - not really, anyways. She wishes she did. So does her twin sister, Tyler. Once upon a time, they had a vague idea of what he looked like - a picture shown to them when they were six. What they do know, however, is his name; the one that signs every check, which eventually... Read more »