From relistening to old favorites and discovering hidden classics to celebrating new releases, summer is a special time for music.

After Mace Thomsen graduated last year, we were left with a hole on our football roster. Two players are in contention for starting QB.

Cookeville High School is home to many incredibly talented people, and it is exciting to learn about the skills they possess.

The CHS girls' soccer team is moving into the regular season following a successful pre-season campaign.

There is one language that deserves to be taught by schools but is often overlooked: sign language.

Elon Musk’s recent messy takeover of Twitter and his rebranding of the app to ‘X’ has caused ripples among those on and off the internet.

Daniel Ebersole - Sophomore | Sports The U.S.A. Men’s Basketball team has lost six times in the Olympics and have outscored their opponents by 28 points per game. The closest to those figures is the Soviet Union, with double the losses and half the point differential. These stats just graze the surface in illustrating the dominant present and past of the Stars and Stripes. But going into the Olympics, they had lost 2 of their last 4 exhibition games. Sports Illustrated

Az Cavanaugh - Senior | Column Hi. Hello, and welcome back to the Soil Scoop. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Az. I will be your guide through the wonderful yet often frustrating world of gardening-- and speaking of frustrating, today I will be teaching you the ins and outs of bonsai tree care. Prepare, friends, for bonsai trees require an unholy amount of time, patience, and persistence to maintain. First and foremost, I have to recommend against trying

Gus Creter - Senior, Managing Editor and Parker Johnson - Editor-in-Chief | Column As the end of summer once again comes around, we reminisce on the songs and albums that soundtracked our months of heat and freedom (lmao). Gus and Parker listened to an abundance of excellent tunes this summer The first on the nose song to describe our summer was the aptly titled “Summer” by Bktherula. The synth-full song topped off with beautiful vocals from Bk detailing that “Everythin

Caden Herron - Senior and Peyton Purgiel - Senior | Opinions Do you or a loved one have a floccinaucinihilipilification problem? Does a chthonic Crwth melody strike distress into your heart? Sadly, words like this do in fact exist in the English language. Join us this month for some of the most obnoxious and pretentious words you have ever heard! Floccinaucinihilipilification is the action or habit of estimating something as worthless. It is one of the most useless words

Dear Chargerette, School is starting back up and I have to admit, I got a little lazy over the summer. I wasn’t working out, I wasn’t outside enough, I barely read, I barely did anything! I need to get back into a routine that is going to help me better myself. I don’t want to get into the habit of just sitting around doing nothing productive. I feel like a slug half the time and I hate it. You know that thing people say, “Don’t just survive, thrive?” Well I want to thrive

Katy Clemens - Sophomore | Feature People trying to learn languages— within the school system and outside of it— should consider adjusting their methods according to science to ensure that they are learning efficiently. There are many factors that go into the process of learning, and many ways to apply them. Most recognize studying only as its most traditional form- as the process of reading a textbook or going through worksheets. However, research suggests that we can

Logan Bowman - Sophomore | Feature Every day, Americans are told to recycle to keep material waste down and landfills empty, yet a startling amount of plastic recycling collected isn't actually recycled. Unfortunately, the end result is that 91% of discarded plastics are dumped in landfills, and the 9% that do get recycled are often unable to be broken down for various reasons. This figure doesn't bode well, as there is an ever-increasing demand for plastic-based goods.

Kaylin Moore - Senior, Co-Editor and Claire Cranford - Junior, Copy Editor | Feature The Putnam County Fair: a monument to summer’s end, seventh graders, fiends, and juggalos. It also signifies the start of another year of school, providing an escape for students to abandon their domesticity after their first day back. The fair turns into a school reunion of sorts, and whether that’s good or bad, we are unsure. But, according to students, that’s not the only bad quality

Kaylin Moore - Senior, Co-Editor | News As the new Delta variant of coronavirus spreads throughout the US, schools have remained open and in-person. The newer, highly contagious variant surfaced in India before travelling to other parts of the world. The Center for Disease Control has documented over 37,000,000 cases of COVID-19 within the United States in the past month, and Putnam County alone has reported over 500 cases in the past week alone. The Delta variant seems

Landon Bowling - Junior, Opinions/Features Editor | News On August 5th, Kanye Omari West had a listening party for his upcoming album “Donda.” He previewed multiple tracks from the album including a track called “Hurricane” which features The Weeknd and Lil Baby. He then ended the show by being lifted into the heavens, where he belongs, in a large ultra-light beam. Despite this, “Donda” isn’t out. In fact, this isn’t even the first time Kanye has pulled this. The album

Parker Foutch - Junior | News What’s everybody’s favorite garage game? Table tennis! Starting after labor day, Engineering teacher Dave Powell will be forming a Table Tennis club. The club is set to meet after school on Tuesdays from 3:15-5:30. The idea for the club started last school year when Powell would challenge students to table tennis matches during Cav Time. When asked about his motives for starting the club, Powell said, “It’s a good activity to burn o

Claire Cranford - Junior, Copy Editor | Feature There’s a new club at Cookeville High School, and it is all thanks to the work of junior Quentin Ding. When Quentin attended the Governor’s School in Memphis, his peers from all over Tennessee each had participated in a Model United Nations club at some point; an opportunity that, until now, had not been available at Cookeville High School. “They all had the model UN at their homeschools in TN and we didn’t have anythin

Logan Bowman - Sophomore | News Few can claim the illustrious and esteemed title of Teacher of the Month. Claiming said title requires an individual to go above and beyond what is expected of a teacher. In spite of this, Dr. Ciara Cassity is more than deserving of this merit. Ciara Cassity—formerly Pittman—teaches English I Honors and English III. She has expressed that her immense love of books and writing are what inspired her to be a teacher in the first place. "I

Spencer Green - Senior | Opinions On Feb. 4, the Putnam County school board voted against forming a committee to investigate the possibility of changing the Algood Middle School mascot, the Redskins. Statistics show that nearly 0% of Algood is Native American and 95.44% of Algood is white. Any educated person should be able to conclude that the minority is not properly represented. The etymology of the word “redskin” dates back to 1769, when it was used by an American In