By Rylee Cason Ms. Handelsman’s senior AP Literature classes have been anxiously awaiting their final vocabulary quiz. The seniors have taken twenty vocabulary quizzes since starting AP Lang as Juniors. For some odd reason, Jack Boger was oddly nervous about this final assessment. Jack voiced his worry about the direction of the accent marks on... Continue Reading →

By Walker Kesler With faculty in the science department leaving and moving to new jobs, we knew that BGA would have to hire some new teachers. Today, The Echo is proud to be the first to announce that Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz will be leading the BGA science department.  Hailing from the Danville area, Dr. Doofenshmirtz... Continue Reading →

By Chloe Wright Ever since the STEM and EL concentrations were announced (and now Global Studies), I have been waiting for a concentration that would truly hone the abilities of the BGA students. Then, I was given exclusive information about a new Concentration being rolled out in 2024. Even though I will sadly not be... Continue Reading →

By Sydney Carroll If you’ve seen seniors lying face-down in the quad as of late, you may have simply assumed senioritis. However, the fatigue and apathy infecting the senior class have a much more sinister cause: since the departure of the senior class's beloved matriarch and supplier of free food, Ms. Cornett, the senior class... Continue Reading →

By Alex Giannotti Mr. Lauriston is finally competing in his first Tour de France after over twenty years of training. He will make his final preparations for the July 1st start date by studying all of his kinematic and dynamic equations in order to save as much gravitational potential energy as possible throughout the race.... Continue Reading →

By Ella McLay As one of the “twins,” I felt it was my responsibility to explain. Abby and I are not actually twins. We are siblings, so that part is not a lie, but we just look very similar. After we were born, my mother was only 98% sure that we were identical twins. But... Continue Reading →

By Sydney Carroll Music fans nationwide were heartbroken when Tennessee’s premier music festival, Bonnaroo was canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic. Heartbreak struck musicians and attendees alike when Bonnaroo was canceled yet again in 2021 because of floods that decimated its Manchester location. Rather than get our hopes up to only be disappointed again,... Continue Reading →

By Lili-Claire Nichols Ah yes, Valentine's Day. The day when couples get together to spend time with one another. Loved ones get to spoil each other with dollar-store chocolate, while those who are single on Valentine’s Day either wallow in self-pity or gladly show their status on social media. With all these sappy feelings going... Continue Reading →

By Sydney Carroll Last year, I ranked romance novels, so in the spirit of Valentine's Day bringing out my hidden identity as a hopeless romantic, this year I'm ranking rom-coms. I'm kind of a rom-com nerd, and my mission over the summer was to check off every rom-com on this spreadsheet I found on TikTok.... Continue Reading →