The Grants High School Pirates made a game out of their road trip to Taos last Friday, December 2, as they were within four points with 3:54 in the fourth quarter. They just were unable to seal the deal as the Tigers, who are ranked 67th in the New Mexico Overtime Sports coaches poll, were able to claw their way to a 68-55 victory to stay 2-0.

GRANTS, N.M. – The Grants Cibola County School district would like to congratulate the GHS MESA team, Lukas Colburn, Joseph Martinez, Ryan Tortalita, Gary Chavez, Joaquin Longoria, Clemente Garcia, Gabriel Garcia, Andrew Rodriguez, Julian Padilla, and Lorenzo Sanchez for winning the statewide NM Governor's STEM Challenge competition. On December 2nd and 3rd, they presented their project, 'Improvised Arduino- Based Mutarium: A Conditioned Environment in Growing Spores of Pestalotiopsis Microspora (ENDOPHYTIC FUNGUS) that Degrade Polyurethanes' at NMSU in Las Cruces. As a result, the Sandia National Laboratories sponsored the students with $5,000. The students were then invited to tour multiple companies that sponsored the competition. A GHS student recently posted, 'Thank you Mr. Cabiling. I'm so happy I joined MESA. It's really helped me out with what I want to do with my future and where I want to go, and I appreciate how supportive you are as our coach and our teacher. I speak for all of us when I say, 'You really are inspiring and are the best teacher ever!'

The Lady Pirates basketball season had a bit of a wait before their first game and will start their season on Tuesday the 29th of November against the Bloomfield Bobcats on the road. Second year head coach Douglas “Dougie” Hickman is ready for the challenge of the season and believes that his players have passed the “learning curve” and have now “bought in” to his philosophy.

GRANTS, N.M. - At the School Board Meeting on November 15, one of the presentations before the School Board was done by Maximilian Martin, a member of Evolvement New Mexico. This is a youth-led movement that is funded by the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program at the New Mexico Department of Health. The objective of this movement is to decrease the harmful effects of tobacco and vape products. The campaign that he came to present is called 24/7. This campaign is aimed at helping schools change their policies to make campuses tobacco product free 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This change would properly prohibit the possession and distribution of these products at all times on school campuses.

“We may be young, but everyone has bought into the culture of unselfishness, discipline, and relentless effort,” said lead Grants High School Boys’ Basketball Coach Landon Chavez of this year’s varsity squad. “We are going to shock some people this year with our young core.” Chavez, in his second year as head coach, focused on skill development and fundamentals during the preseason.