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Today is Earth Day

Today is Earth Day

Alice O., Design Editor April 22, 2025

Every year on April 22, over a million people celebrate Earth Day! As most know, Earth Day is a yearly event to promote the preservation of the environment and advocate for the protection of nature. Earth...

Design by Alice O.

Lively students celebrate Easter

Cecilia (Ceci) McArthur, Marketing Director April 17, 2025

Some plan to paint or hide eggs, crack cascarones on friends and family, or spend the day decorating their houses. Easter this year will be on April 20th and will be celebrated by many companies with egg...

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras

Samuel Eusanio, Co-Editor in Chief March 26, 2025

Mardi Gras this year took place on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, and the Mardi Gras season began on Monday, January 6th, 2025.  Mardi Gras has many names such as Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, and Pancake Tuesday. ...

Design by Alice O.

St. Patrick’s Day

Major G., Asst. Sports Editor March 13, 2025

The great holiday St. Patrick's day is upon us. The holiday that consists of rainbows, gold coins, the color green, and most importantly the power of pinching someone if they aren’t wearing green. Let's...

7th grader Alpha Diallo performed during the Pep Rally.

First Pep Rally of 2025!

Vera Marsh, Staff Writer March 5, 2025

Lively Middle School hosted their first pep rally of the year on February 28, 2025. 6th, 7th, and 8th grade came together to watch performances of several Lively sports. The clubs who performed were...

New Falcon Buck System

New Falcon Buck System

Daniel S., Junior Editor March 2, 2025

After spring break Lively will be adopting a new Falcon bucks system. This new system will change the way Falcon bucks are stored and given. I tried to learn all I could about how this system will work...

Teacher of Promise: Mallory Warrix

Mallory Warrix named Teacher of Promise at Lively

Christian Rincon, Staff Writer March 1, 2025

The 2024-2025 teacher of promise award was given to Mallory Warrix, the new 8th grade English language science teacher. The teacher of promise is an award that occurs every year just like the teacher...

LaTash King teaches her 1st period class.

LaTash King named Lively’s Teacher of the Year!

Vera Marsh, Staff Writer February 25, 2025

Latash King won the award for Teacher of the Year at Lively Middle School for the year 2024-25. “It’s gonna sound so rude if I say I don’t like it. It’s just that I don’t like to be in...

Why is TikTok being banned?

Why is TikTok being banned?

BreAsia Hill, Co-Photo Editor February 14, 2025

At the beginning of 2025 the news broke that TikTok would be banned in the United States for everyone on January 19th.  TikTok has sparked concerns over potential user data collection and influence operations...

Students who competed in the TechRise Competition.

“Future Engineers” at Lively named in Techrise championship from NASA

Sam Nash, Co-Editor in Chief January 27, 2025

Lively’s “Future Engineers” are blasting off, wink wink, to new heights!! Early in October of last semester a specially picked group of students from a variety of grade levels were picked to be...

Starting to see greenery in the gardens again.

Lively Garden Grows!

Alice O., Design Editor December 10, 2024

In October I published an article explaining what had happened to the class World Outside, in hopes of restoring the garden and bringing light to the necessary changes that needed to be made to the...

Guitar students perform at Evening of Wonder on December 6.

Lively’s Evening of Wonder

Asa Pearsall, Co-Photo Editor December 9, 2024

Lively held “Evening of Wonder," where fifth graders from around Austin can come and see what Lively Middle School has to offer.  The event was held on Friday, December 6th.  The event included performances...

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