HOMECOMING 2026

ABOVE: JULIA MOUA ( top) and Mesa Edwards gleefully wave to the camera on “ Pajama Day” at Tracy Area High School. Even good- natured teacher and football coach Derek Ashbaugh ( above, right) got in on the action.

THIS PILLOW RELAY GAME ended with a teacher — in this case, Mrs. Lanoue — putting a shirt on a large pillow. Lanoue and her kindergarten team was the first to finish the contest.

ABOVE: KAYLIE DANIELSON (left) and TAHS Student Council President Millie Lindberg emceed at last week’s TMB Homcecoming coronation. LEFT: KINLEE SANDERS, HAZEL KIMBALL, Brittney Gervais and Laura Kor goof around in the PJs on “Pajama Day” at St. Mary’s School. RIGHT: AINSLEE HOFFBECK (right) passes a ball to her teammate Ryann Johnson during a contest at TAES’s Homecoming pep fest. BELOW, LEFT: GETTING A VANILLA WAFER from your forehead isn’t as easy as it sounds, as Ramsey Pedersen (left) discovered at the pep fest. Jox Vosberg was one of the first kids done. BELOW: ADDILYNN ATKINS found herself in the lead during a relay contest where the students had to shuffle their feet while wearing shoeboxes.

TMB CHEERLEADERS fired up the elementary students at last week’s pep fest at the grade school. The cheerleaders made a cameo at St. Mary’s, selling tattoos to students. AT RIGHT: Rakorra Peters, Arabella Alcorn and Lennon LaVoy select their tattoos from TMB cheerleaders.

ST. MARY’S STUDENTS showing off their pajamas during their lunch break week included, from left: Riyker Rolling, Bishop Brinkley, Teagan Sanders, William Buyck, Michael Lanoue and Jase Johns. BELOW: ELSIE KNOTT AND AVA SWENHAUGEN, portraying Homecoming queen candidates, shared plenty of laughs during a junior skit at the homecoming coronation.

THE TAHS STAFF, led by agile Panther football coach Ryan Kruse ( left), won this year’s Students vs. Staff homecoming volleyball match, but not without a fight, as Trenton Johnson ( above) and his fellow students proved to be formidable foes.