It is well known that our school network is rather slow, which is expected of large networks, but what can be done to make this faster?  This problem lies not only in the network itself, but in the choice of web browser. Our school runs, primarily, on Internet Explorer.  This is one of...

The week of April 25th through April 29th will be the last week that anyone can buy a yearbook.  That is, until yearbook distribution week which is May 23rd through May 27th.  However, at this time, the yearbook will cost 90 dollars. The yearbook class has sold more yearbooks than they have...

Sony’s very popular PlayStation and PlayStation Network have been through a lot in the past week. Starting on April 19, the PlayStation Network crashed, leaving millions of players without network services. It is bad enough that the network crashed and is still down, but the crash was caused...

Dixon has a new restaurant in town known as La Cocina located at 105 East Dorset Avenue, across from Wal-Mart.  A family business that was brought up in Dixon, after they closed down their original restaurant in Rio Vista. When you get in the servers are very quick to get you your chips and...

St. Peter’s Church will hold the annual Cinco de Mayo Festival this Sunday, May 1st.   The event is organized by the Hispanic community of the parish and is intended to be enjoyed by all people of Dixon.  Festivities start at 12:00pm and should end at 8:00pm. One of the most tempting...

This past weekend on Saturday, April 23rd was the second annual Campus Beautification and clean up at our school. This was a fun way for the students to not only help our school look clean again but to obtain community service as well while helping. The number of people who showed up was...

GUM ART Below is an example of gum art, the artist of these pictures and sculptures is Jamie Maraccini. He is well known for making his creations from used gum for over 20 years. He uses massive amounts of gum to make his work while taking thousands of hours at a time to finish. He likes...

Friday April 22, 2011 Dixon High had Latino 97.9 come during lunch and advertize to the students to continue going to college when graduating from high school. This event was great because it not only involved Latino people but everyone in the school, it was a great way to finish off star...

On the 26th of April, the boy’s golf team was supposed to have a match against Capital Christian. It was impossible for Capital to play on Thursday, so Dixon’s coaches rescheduled for Tuesday. The day before Dixon played West Campus, they won that match and would hope to win there last...

iPods are portable music players that were put on stock by Apple on October of 2001. Since that year we have had tons of new different series of iPods coming out. Like the iPod Classic, we have six generations of those, then we have the Mini first and second generation, then the Nano first...

The Dixon May Fair is holding their first ticket promotion this year to go along with the first ever five day fair. Since the fair will be starting on a Wednesday this year, they decided to have a ticket promotion to go along with it. The May Fair CEO Jack Murphy is hoping that this will help...

The weather may not seem like its spring but according to our calendars its already spring and already time for our annual Dixon May Fair. May Fair will officially be starting next week on Wednesday. So do not worry if you cannot make it on the first day it officially starts to go play...