Passion Project Into Successful Business
Angel Huang, Staff Writer
October 7, 2020
A business owner, an entrepreneur, a student, and a senior are only a fraction of the words to describe Katya Pineda. Pineda started her business, Coffee Mangos, last year in January of 2019. Her current Instagram handle for her business, coffeeemangos.co, has a total of 11,400 followers. “Originally I just had an Instagram to post my art,” Pineda said. “There ...
Social Media Mania
Nicole Campbell, Staff Writer
October 7, 2020
In today's political climate, social media has allowed students to speak out on issues they care about. It gives people a platform to spread information and have discussions.With tensions rising due to the upcoming election, having access to information to help shape opinions and learn about voting helps. S...
SATIRE: Presidential Debate Shows Candidates Are Definitely, Unconditionally, Equally Bad, We Promise
Donovan Nichols, Co-Editor In Chief
October 7, 2020
The first presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle on September 29 left Americans shocked, flabbergasted, and utterly befuddled. The approximately hour-and-a-half long political brawl between former vice president Joe Biden and President Donald Trump quickly became a cultural flashpoint, leading ...
The Lessons We Can Learn From the Notorious R.B.G.
Yoonsoo (Seth) Choi, News Editor
October 7, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court’s second female justice and feminist icon, passed away on September 18 due to cancer and became the first woman and Jew to lie in state at the capitol. We must all follow her example by seizing the opportunities presented to us and continuing the fight for...
Part-time Pandemic
Celeste Hoover, Co-Editor in Chief
October 6, 2020
A minimum wage, part-time job was once a staple extracurricular for teens around the country. However, the ongoing pandemic has forced many seniors to become full-time caregivers, providers, students, and college applicants simultaneously. As the community reopens, what was once a right of passage for...
Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
Yoonsoo (Seth) Choi, News Editor
October 6, 2020
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named 13 students as National Merit Semifinalists on September 28 for their high scores on the PSAT in Texas last year. Out of 1.6 million students who take the PSAT, only 16,000 are selected as semifinalists. They will have a chance to win a $2500 scho...
COVID-19 Effects On Clubs
Yongyin Angel Huang, Staff Writer
September 24, 2020
“I think we'll get out of this a lot stronger than we did when we're going into it,” said senior Emily Lent. Since the beginning of COVID-19, schools around the nation have been affected by the pandemic. School events have been delayed for months then later canceled when the natio...
Tchaikovsky to Technology
Donovan Nichols, Co-Editor In Chief
September 24, 2020
“As I was saying bye to everyone on the bus, I kept saying ‘see you next week,’ but here we are six months later,” Orchestra Director Brett Nelsen said. The Sinfonia varsity orchestra won big on their spring trip to Orlando, Florida, to participate in the 2020 American String Teache...
Humans of Cinco: Cafeteria Conundrum
Celeste Hoover, Co-Editor In Chief
September 24, 2020
The beginning of this school year has brought many changes, but perhaps none more important than cafeteria conundrum. With students spread out across the county during lunch time, meals range from vending machine chips to leftovers to takeout. So, we at the County Line set out to investigate this ne...
Proud Poetry
Yoonsoo (Seth) Choi, News Editor
September 23, 2020
Junior Ethan Wang was honored as a National Student Poet for the Southwest and awarded a $5000 scholarship by the National Student Poets Program at an online ceremony on September 10. “I remember feeling that if I was a young person, I would have loved to have a role model, like you,” Brooklyn...
Homemade Horoscopes
Nicole Campbell, Staff Writer
September 23, 2020
This is the first article of the horoscope blog! Each article will teach people about different parts of an astrological chart, and astrology in general. Some topics that will be covered are, moon and ascendant signs, characteristics of each zodiac and much more. Every few weeks, there will be someth...
Mulan: The Good, The Bad, and The Terrible [ SPOILER FREE ]
Oliver Capito, Staff Writer
September 23, 2020
DISCLAIMER: There won’t be any spoilers for the 2020 “Mulan”, but there will be spoilers for the 1998 “Mulan” movie. That movie has been out for over 20 years, and I feel like most people have watched it. Secondly, because this movie is different from the original and is marketed that way, ...