WEB is a program for 8th graders to help mentor incoming 6th graders and to help them feel more welcome at Valley Middle during their transition from elementary to middle school. The class of 2024 will be the first group of WEB students to become WEB leaders. Those who applied will be interviewed...

Avengers: Endgame came out on April 26th. It was really good! Endgame is the final movie in the “Infinity Saga” and is the 22nd movie in the MCU. Since Spider-Man Far From Home comes out later this year we know that this is not the end of the MCU, fortunately. With Endgame's impressive 3 hour run...

YDE also known as Youth Dance Ensemble is a small studio of students ages 2-18. At YDE, there are 5 teachers: Dixie Rairamo, Bekah Gudim, Kirsten Liams, Elly Stahlke, and Lauren Warmka. Dixie is the founder of YDE; she founded the studio in 1991. Before opening the studio, she attended Kansas State University...

It was in the fall of 2018 when the day the rest of my family and I had been waiting for finally arrived. The Rooyakker family was going to Ethiopia.  We had been waiting for this trip for years, and had saved money aside so that we could see my Ethiopian family again. We were flying into the capitol,...

  I’m running, Sprinting, Trying to escape, The things that haunt me in my dreams, But nothing is really as it seems, I run and run but it’s no use, They follow me, Wherever I go, I run and run, But I can’t escape, My inner demons