Frederick Lantern

Firestone’s Safeway May Not Be Safe

Carson Birdsall and Kaylee Ledgerwood • November 21, 2024

The bell rings for lunch, and sophomore Hazel McIver Oun heads out. She gets together with her boyfriend Jayden Grigg so they can drive over to Safeway for a bite to eat. It's closer than everywhere else,...

The Safeway location at 8134 Colorado Blvd., pictured above, is the closest grocery store to Frederick. It has been flagged as a location that will be sold to C&S Wholesalers if Kroger and Albertsons are allowed to merge. If this happens, the store would still be called Safeway but be filled with different products, less selection, and higher prices.

Firestone’s Safeway May Not Be Safe

Carson Birdsall and Kaylee Ledgerwood • November 21, 2024

Understanding Student Stress

Shelby Hott, Staff Writer • November 20, 2024

Junior Doris Lian and sophomore Leigh Tilton hold their noses in the gym. With sweating bodies playing sports, the gym should be the stinkiest place at Frederick High, but the sad truth is that dishonor belongs to the large freshmen classes. With some teachers needing to open their windows to let out the freshman funk after class, it's time the class of 2028 to grow up and stop the stink.

Dear Freshmen: Fix Your Funk

Melinda Yim, Staff Writer • November 19, 2024

HBO’s The Penguin Kills

Brandon Coon, Faculty Adviser • November 18, 2024

November is for the Natives

Melina Joy, Assistant Copy Editor • November 17, 2024

Kirie Goshima (originally voiced by Uki Sataki and voiced by Abby Trott in the US dub) stares out at the town in the first episode of the Uzukami anime. Notice the small details around the eyes and how sharp the lines of the hair are. That level of detail is gone in the rest of the series, one of many downgrades that make Uzumaki the most frustrating television project this year.

Spiraling Out of Control

Kendan Cartwright, Staff Writer • November 16, 2024

Junior Kenzie Kincaid works on her Boys Tennis spread for the Frederick Blueprint in her yearbook class. Kenzie spends most of her school days juggling classwork, homework, work, chores, and her own mental health. If this pressure keeps building, Kincaid worries that she will burn out.

The Kids Aren’t All Right

Kaylee Ledgerwood, Editor in Chief • November 15, 2024

Kelly Macdonald, Damian Lewis, Bo Bragason, and Harry Baxendale star as the titular family in The Radleys. Based on the best-selling novel by Matt Haig, this suburban vampire story has a decent premise but isn't nearly as interesting or entertaining as it tries to be.

Don’t Expect to Be Rattled

Alex Lyman, Staff Writer • November 14, 2024