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The Dispatch

The student news site of James Bowie High School

The Dispatch

The student news site of James Bowie High School

The Dispatch

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Fortnite Battle Royale takes over gaming community

Michael Sugrue, Online Writer March 30, 2018

Fortnite, the most streamed game on twitch right now. The game that broke the internet with rapper drake and twitch streamer Ninja playing the game together. If I were to explain fortnite to someone in...

Sherlock Gnomes “The World’s Least Entertaining Detective”

Liam Connally, Online Writer March 29, 2018

Sherlock Gnomes starts out with a minute of the Gnomes suggesting stories they should tell only each tale has "gnome" in the title, The Gnome Ranger, for example. It gets worse from there. Sherlock...

Nintendo Direct Announcement: New Super Smash Bros.

Nintendo Direct Announcement: New Super Smash Bros.

Robbie Warhola, Online Writer March 28, 2018

Smash four, the party game of despair or victory. Invite a few friends over, plug in those GameCube controllers into your Wii U and choose your fighter. With the new Super Smash Brothers game being announced...

One Act takes home Awards

Kaitlyn Zellner, Online Managing Editor March 27, 2018

The Bowie UIL One-Act Play company Violet Sharp took top honors for the second week in a row, advancing next to the Area contest at College Station on Saturday, March 31. Also, for the second week...

Silver Stars Nationals Awards

Kaitlyn Zellner, Online Managing Editor March 27, 2018

Over Spring Break, the Silver Stars traveled to Hawaii to compete in the Crowd Pleasers Aloha National Championship. Congratulations to the following dancers: National Champion Soloist 9th-10th grade:...

SXSW concert in 2015

SXSW is back

Ellie Coulston, Social Media Editor March 26, 2018

South by Southwest, SXSW, is annual music festival since 1987 that happens in downtown Austin, Texas. From March 9 to March 18, around 300,000 people came into Austin to see the performers and artists....

Bowie is going to be frozen to transfers next year

Kathleen Nguyen, Copy Editor March 25, 2018

Last school year, Austin ISD implemented the policy of ending tracking transfers. Tracking transfers include students that transferred in elementary school and followed current elementary students to their...

Pictured is freshman Leif Tilton.

Moving along through music

Austyn Keelty, Photo Editor March 24, 2018

Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Van Halen… whether it was in the basement of a suburban home or the band hall of a middle school, these famous guitarist all had to start somewhere. Often...

TAJE “Best in Texas” journalism awards

Kaitlyn Zellner, Online Managing Editor March 22, 2018

On Monday the Texas Association of Journalism Educators released the 2018 "Best in Texas" individual awards and The Dispatch grabbed thirty-two awards. The winners were chosen from among 1200 entries in...

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