Welcome Back
With the return of school, The Southerner too has come back for another year of articles, pictures, videos and audio. This year we will have a variety of media and ways to interact with the news happening around us in all new ways. From open blogs for discussion on current issues in the school, to a facebook page where students and staff can leave story ideas, The Southerner will be focusing on the school’s involment in our production of the newspaper. This website will be a place for students and staff to get caught up with the news happening in their community and voice their opinions of it. We look forward for another year of reporting and production, welcome back!
![A power outage on Friday May 12 before the start of the school day led many students to leave the building and miss parts of first, second and third hour. “[Staff at the front door] said the power might be on at 11, so [we should] come back to school at 11,” recalled freshman Riley Olson. “A lot of people went back home.” However, Principal Afolabi Runsewe claimed and maintains that students were told to stay in the commons and were never given the option to leave school.](https://www.shsoutherner.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/power-outage-475x356.png)