Barking Points: Inaugural NJHS passes the torch

As anyone familiar with a decent page-turner understands, all great novels must come to an end. With the closing of the last page, however, lives the hope and the confidence that the sequel will be even better. Lind-Ritzville Middle School’s NJHS saw this same cycle of hopeful new beginnings over the past few weeks when they inducted a new group of scholars.

The 2013-14 NJHS has had a productive first year, sailing in uncharted waters of the first honor society chapter the middle school has ever seen. The doors are now open – the new beginning – for the new group of inductees to learn from the...