It turns out that the national college admissions scandal that has rocked the country has some specific connections to former Granite Bay High students and their families.   William “Rick” Singer was indicted in March in a $25 million scheme  involving college-admission test fraud and bribes solicited from families and paid out to college sports coaches and other university officials. The goal was to get otherwise unqualified students into elite universities including Stanford, Yale, UCLA and others.   Singer owned The Key, a college counseling business that had its roots in Granite Bay, where Singer got his start in the private college counseling business. Singer helped many local families with the college admissions process.       Sydney Larson, who attended Rio Americano High her freshman and sophomore and then transferred to GBHS to finish her high...

Kate Fernandez, staff writer

  Unless you’re a doctor, firefighter, or hold another job position that is widely considered as heroic, it is not often that one has the chance to save a life. That is, unless you give blood. Then, however indirectly, you could be saving someone’s life you don’t even know, simply by participating in a process that could take minutes.   Every year, Granite Bay High School students participate in donating blood, and have given anywhere from 100 to 180 pints of blood. More importantly, the very blood someone donates could save a life.   According to Joanna Szyrynski, who has...

Raha Elahi, staff writer

  Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Is it? Could it be? Yup you guessed it, Bohemian Rhapsody!   I am a huge fan of Queen, so I knew that I had to go see this movie.   It centers around the life of Freddie Mercury as he shot to stardom.   Mercury is a man who struggles with his identity, and the audience gets a chance to see Queen beyond their music.   Freddie Mercury is played by Rami Malek, Mary Austin (one of Mercury’s love interests) is played by Lucy Boynton,...