Payson’s wrestling program, has always been a HUGE claim to fame for the school, and our wrestling program wouldn’t be as successful without our amazing senior wrestlers.  The coaches, parents, and student body all honored these five boys on January 20 for Payson’s last home dual of the season. Rustin Cloward, Emilio Leiva, Lionel Renteria, Wyatt Thomas, and Adam Marck represented Payson with class, strength, and honor this season. And the school and program is sad to say goodbye to these outstanding wrestlers.

The counseling secretaries, Mrs. White and Mrs. Hall keep the counseling center running by completing the tasks needed to be done, and helping the students with their needs here at PHS. They do many things from answering phone calls, to printing schedules and transcripts, to scheduling appointments with the counselors for the students. They always have a positive attitude and keep things fun in the counseling center. They have many TA’s that help run counselor notes, and all the TA’s love these counseling secretaries.

Shelby Bulkley was named as one of MountainStar Healthcare Star Athletes of Week 22.  See the article here: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865645716/MountainStar-Healthcare-Star-Athletes-of-Week-22.html

Our drama and film history teacher sure does have a passion for his career! Mr. Allred has done an amazing job with helping our theater students reach their full potential and introducing to the wonderful world of plays and cinemas. Sitting in during class there were many great points to his ways of teaching. There were so many imaginative lessons that really engaged the students interest when he taught his drama classes.

Is technology hurting or saving you? According to Webmd.com,” seasonal depression is still a mystery to some scientists, but researchers agree that seasonal affective disorder is affected by the amount of light that people see.” Technology has caught up to this horrible seasonal disease. Costco is now selling something called a “Happy Light”. All you do is keep it in your room and look at the special light every morning. Light therapy may only work for some people, but that is only one of many ways you can beat the winter blues.

The girls basketball team of Payson High gave it their all on the 9th of January, kicking off big plays to come for the year of 2016. While they did try their best, unfortunately, Springville took home the win. With a respectable score of 56 to 23, Springville was surely a tough competitor. But our team will learn from this experience, and further improve their skills to be victorious again.

A catcher gives a sign to the pitcher to direct them; football players huddle up after every play; lights of ambulances, firetrucks, and police cars ring throughout the cities--and even more than that--each and every one of you pull out your phone to text people constantly throughout the day.  These are things that affect all of you every single day, but are you aware that all of those things come from deaf culture?  So many things throughout each of our days are influenced by the deaf culture, yet nobody really acknowledges the deaf culture.

As the title tells Mrs. Walker loves Star Wars. She's also one of the most popular Honors English teachers. She laughs and jokes but she always makes class interesting. While in her class she finds a way to capture everyone's attention. Whether it be having the students read aloud, allowing them to have accents, or just making their own suggestions known. Mrs. Walker capturers their attention by making the subject more appealing or funny in some way. She is known to have strict deadlines but most of her students like the amount of strictness.

The PHS swim team had a meet against Salem and Spanish Fork on the 15th of December.  In the Women's 200 Medley Relay Payson took first and fourth. In the Men’s 200 Medley Relay, Payson took second and fifth. In the Women’s 200 Free 15 & Over, Payson took third and fourth.  In the Men’s 200 Free 15 & Over, Payson took second, sixth, and ninth. In the Men’s 200 IM 15 & Over, Payson took first. In the Women’s 50 Free 15 & Over, Payson took first, second, and eighth. In the Men’s 50 Free 15 & Over, Payson took third.