News – The Hi-Times

Maintain your brain

March 13, 2019

On Saturday, March 23 from 1-4 pm, high school bands from all over Wake County will perform at the Maintain Your Brain fundraiser located on the front lawn of Broughton High School. This will be the f...

The girl scouts sue to boy scouts

Ginny Dempster, Reporter

February 11, 2019

People are used to seeing scouts selling cookies or popcorn on the streets, volunteering for different charities or camping. Soon, however, people are going to be seeing them in a courtroom. Over a hundred years after the establishment of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization decided to allow girls to join and subsequently dropped the “Boy” in its name. “As we enter a new era for our organ...

Clark Street Decommissioned

November 27, 2018

New Fire Station Has Community Ablaze

October 17, 2018

Fire Station 6, on the corner of Oberlin and Fairview, has been an integral part of protecting homes in the Five Points and Oberlin neighborhoods since 1949. That is, until summer of 2017, when it w...

Steer Clear of Parking Tickets

October 5, 2018

So a student is walking to his car after a long day at school. He has a busy night of homework and sports/arts and does not need another thing to have to deal with. Then he sees his front windshie...

Nothing Could Be Finer Than the State Fair

October 3, 2018

Starting October 11, 2018, the North Carolina fairgrounds will be filled with people, rides, food, and lots of smiling faces. This year’s fair will be an enjoyable one for adults and children. Th...

Walk out postponed

Cate Brewer, Co-Editor

March 14, 2018

Students across the Triangle walked out at 10:00 am on March 14 for 17 minutes, one minute for each of the people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14. Broughton...

Tale As Old As Time

James Hodges, Reporter

March 6, 2018

The spring musical “Beauty and the Beast” will be shown from March 15-17, 7 p.m., in the Diane Payne auditorium. Student tickets cost $5 and adult tickets are $10. This year’s cast is as talented as ev...

Will it snow this year?

December 4, 2017

There is no better feeling than waking up, looking out the window, and seeing the world outside covered in a blanket of snow. Some students would choose to spend the day running around outside, while o...

Spotlight on Ms. Graves

October 16, 2017

WRAL Teacher of the Week and dance teacher Betsy Graves has had a busy six months of honors. Her most recent recognition was being named WRAL Teacher of the Week in September. After being named Teacher of the Year at Broughton in fall 2016, she advanced to 2017-2018 Wake County Teacher of the Year in May 2017. Graves is loved by her students, and believes in every one of them. She is always encouragin...

Mass shooting in Las Vegas

Anita Hallberg, Entertainment Editor

October 2, 2017

Outside of the Mandalay Bay Resort at 10:08 p.m. (1:08 a.m. ET Monday) in Las Vegas, rapid bursts of gunfire took the lives of 50 people, and injured more than 400 - making this massacre the deadliest in United States history. The shots were first heard at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, in the middle of country singer Jason Aldean’s concert. The festival attracted more than 300,000 attendees, and nearby hospitals are overwh...

New changes in the 2017-2018 school year

September 19, 2017

Principal Elena Ashburn has made changes to school policy with the start of the new school year. The most drastic change is in regards to the tardy policy. Previously, students receive...