BY JOEL CHOGO — Staff Artist With the beginning of Trimester 3 just around the corner, you might be considering ways to improve your school performance before summer! Take a look at Xander’s five tips to succeeding as a freshmen below for some ideas to implement into your schedule. It’s never too late to be successful this year!

BY CEDAR TIMES STAFF WRITERS Cedars around Lebanon High School are constantly creating fun products as they learn in their courses! Below, find the video that Aggy Discuillo, Maggie Bender, and Savannah Hershey created for Mr. Grove’s class. Their assignment was to complete a biography on some of the real-life characters that were featured in the hit musical, Hamilton. In order to add some Cedar pizazz to their project, they decided to include the following video.

BY ABIGAIL SWANSON — Staff Writer May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Students across the world are affected by mental health every day. There are various factors that contribute to this: too large of a workload, none-understanding teachers, peer issues, unsafe school environment, lack of support, poor home life, etc…

BY KARMIA SCOTLAND — Staff Writer For many high school students, thoughts surrounding college inevitably bring up the idea of tuition. It’s not uncommon for students to decide against attending a college simply because of the costs associated with going to school. Others might argue that if a student wants to receive more of an education, they’re obligated to pay for it. Do you feel like students should have to pay to attend college?

BY IRIS KROUSE — Staff Writer Most people enjoy the part of the school day where they can eat and chat with their friends. Though some foods may not be of your liking, others may think otherwise. As the school year goes on, many take a liking to a certain food and often get it when it is offered. What lunch food do you prefer? Check the video down below and vote in the poll.

BY ABIGAIL SWANSON — Staff Writer Christmas is near! What’s a more fun way to enjoy it than learning random facts about it?! There are various “did you knows?” about Christmas traditions, ranging from the date of Christmas itself to the beloved Christmas tune, “Jingle Bells”. Christmas Fun…

BY ANONYMOUS Foreseen Plead By not just fate, we went out to dance Clothes of great status, dressed finely all over. Going over the others With nothing standing between us. We saw people of many kinds But there were two that stood out Two stealing the crown of the king. …

BY MAHKYE CORTES — Staff Writer Last year the Cedars Boys Basketball team had an incredible season, winning the LL championship and section 2 championship. This year’s squad is looking to pick up right where they left off. Coach Tim Speraw explains, “Our goals are always the same; Our…

BY DANTE GINGRICH — Staff Writer With Thanksgiving in two weeks, and Black Friday a day afterwards, I decided to find a turkey recipe you might like, and some deals you might like more than stuffing your face. PERFECT ROAST TURKEY RECIPE Recipe by Ina Garten and featured on Food Network 1/4 pound (1…