Shaun Burgess and Allison Newman
April 24, 2020
The 2020 high school spring sports regular season has already been canceled for all sports, and as of April 15, the Spring Fling state championships have also been cancelled. “TSSAA knows that its athletes want nothing more than to play and I believe they will do everything in their power to make it work whenever that may be,” junior soccer player Carsten Haddad said. “I have no problem at...
Aiden Curran, Reporter
April 14, 2020
General: Due to the effects of social distancing, new estimates place the Coronavirus peaking in late May to early June Hospitals in Shelby County are working at less than 50% their surge capacity With only a third of the ventilators currently in use Mayor Strickland has stated that he will be working diligently to reduce the burden placed on hospitals by continuing social distancing...
Sam Kuykendall, Reporter
April 10, 2020
The outbreak of Covid-19 has dominated our lives and global news for the past several weeks. However, the sudden onslaught of restrictions and national shutdowns has left some people trapped away from home. Such is the case with cruise ships. Several of these ships have sailed into the news lately, but not for good reasons. Several cruise liners have seen Covid-19 creep from the news onto their decks. Such...
Miles Masters, Editor
April 10, 2020
Recently, the College Board changed the content and dates of each AP exam, with each now lasting 45 minutes and some additional time to upload responses. Most of the content changes were made to remove the units covered later in the year, and the exams will also be open-note and open-book. Listed below are the specific changes for each of St. George's AP classes. The date for the AP Biology exam...
Isabel Dlabach, Web Editor
April 8, 2020
Up until recently, the whole world was looking forward to the event that would bring over 200 countries together. Athletes who had worked their whole lives for this summer were training, and fans were preparing to see the best of the best represent their nations. But then the novel coronavirus spread on a worldwide scale and forced a change of plans that caused weeks of uncertainty. On Tuesday,...
Isabel Dlabach, Web Editor
April 4, 2020
Arvid Isacssol, nephew of Social Studies Department Chair and history teacher Dr. Marianne Leung, was diagnosed with COVID-19 and kindly answered questions for the Lodge over Zoom with Web Editor Isabel Dlabach on March 20, 2020. As of that date, Isacssol was in quarantine at home with a colleague who was also diagnosed. They work as travel and ski guides in Ischgl, a ski resort village in the Austrian...
Jacob Gettig, Editor
April 3, 2020
On Thursday, March 12th, the St. George’s community learned that it would not be returning to school after spring break, and student life was put on hold. Or so some might have thought. Instead, student activities shifted to Zoom, with a daily schedule of activities being posted every week. During the new schedule’s debut week, students had the option to watch “Inside Out,” play Kahoot trivia,...
Aiden Curran, Reporter
March 31, 2020
What you need to know about the Coronavirus (3/31) Here is what you need to know about the Coronavirus and how it's affecting our community. General: The total number of Coronavirus cases in Shelby county has increased to 379 cases and 1,834 in the state of Tennessee As of 3/30, over a fifth of confirmed cases in the state of Tennessee were in Shelby county Although the rate of new cases...
Madeline Sisk and Snowden Farnsworth
March 30, 2020
On Friday, Feb. 7, bright blue bins crept into class-rooms. Their purpose? To seize the students’ cell phones one by one. Right after school had dismissed for the weekend, students received an email from Dean of Students Kalyn Underwood issuing a new phone policy. Students are now required to place their phone in the blue bins at the beginning of each class period. “The expectation is that...
Sam Kuykendall, Reporter
March 4, 2020
After lasting only one season in 2001, the XFL, a professional football league designed to display the talents of unsigned players, has been resurrected for a new season. This revival started Feb. 8 and plans to run until the conclusion of its championship game on Apr. 26. It remains to be seen how the league will fare in the coming months, considering how the Alliance of American Football flopped...
