On Tues. April 4, Wake County approved the 2017-18 bell schedule change for Apex High, Wake Forest Middle, Apex and Heritage Elementary. The changes are as follows: Apex High will begin and end 15 minutes earlier (7:10 a.m. to 2:03 p.m.) Apex Elementary will begin and end 45 minutes later (9:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.) Heritage Elementary will begin and
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House Bill 2 has been temporarily repealed on Thursday to an array of mixed public feelings. HB2 established a multitude of statutes from not punishing racial, religious, disability, sexual, and gender discrimination in the workplace to child welfare requirements and minimum wage. However, HB2 is most known for its ruling on state-designated bathrooms, for it denies students the right to
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I have spent the week binge listening to S-Town and then trying to recover from the emotional rollercoaster I just endured. Over the course of one episode, I experienced blood-boiling anger, on-the-verge-of-tears sadness, and amused laughter. The immense range of emotions over such a short period of time has a numbing effect–a hand-to-my-mouth stunned effect. S-Town, a production of Serial
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Sophomore Carter Broome is an accomplished member of the YMCA Super Skippers, allowing him to jump rope around the world and won dozens of medals. Peak Student Media sat down with Carter Broome to learn more about his jump rope experiences. What is your name, grade, and how long have you been jumping? I’m Carter Broome, I’m in the tenth
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You voted, and we listened! According to a poll Legacy took last week, the most popular way to celebrate high school graduation at Apex is via a party. Why not kick off the summer with the perfect high school send-off? Here are a few quick tips and tricks that are essential to throwing the perfect bash. 1. Invitations Don’t invite
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College stories are always fun to hear. They are usually insightful and impactful, and sometimes they are downright, rolling-on-the-floor hilarious. They are even more fun when it’s a teacher telling them because the idea that they were once like us is mind-boggling. The idea that they also had embarrassing crushes, crazy roommates, sleepless nights with heavy textbooks and a concoction
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Sports: Apex Baseball v. Cancer: As many of you know, four years ago, the baseball programs and also softball programs at Cary and Apex joined forces to raise money and awareness for children’s cancer. This year our event will be hosted here at Apex next Tues., April 10. The girls softball and boys baseball junior and senior varsity teams will
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The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has been around for 146 years. It is known as “the greatest show on earth.” However, the final curtain call will come on May 21, 2017, in Uniondale, New York. The circus toured in Greensboro, NC on Feb 8-12, and Out of this World toured Charlotte, NC on Feb 1-5 and Raleigh
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A recent study led by Josh McDermott, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, suggests that the type of music a person likes to listen to is mostly influenced by the society around them and the type of music they grew up hearing. Scientists have long been wondering if a person is born with their
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