Students on Churchill Crew club spend about 10 hours per week rowing on the Anacostia River. While the river hosts several other crew teams and clubs, such as Wootton and Elizabeth Seton High Schools,...
By Gil Jacobson, Online-Breaking News
• October 29, 2013
CHS continues to make sweeping changes across its performing arts department due to various position openings.
The administration has filled former drama teacher and director Lynda Scionti’s teaching...
By Ana Faguy, Production Editor
• October 25, 2013
MCPS announced it would be following the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) new Smart Snacks rule, which limits items to 230 mg of sodium and caffeinated sports and isotonic beverages to high schools...
By Natalie Cortez, Public Relations Manager
• October 25, 2013
CHS has done it again—landing the No.1 school ranking in Maryland for the third year in a row.
According to the report by U.S. News and World Report, CHS ranks as the best high school in Maryland against...
Principal Joan Benz established a Sister City Partnership and an exchange program with China’s Xi’an No. 1 Middle School on Sept. 18 as part of MCPS’s County Executive Isaiah Leggett’s China Trade,...
By Emily Raab, Production Editor
• October 11, 2013
October is the month of pumpkins, sweaters and ghosts, but is also the national month celebrating something we don’t always associate fall and colder weather with: country music.
According to a 2012...
By Katie Clem, Production Editor
• September 30, 2013
Special Education paraeducators Orly Santos and Daniel Lethbridge were recently announced as the new Student Government Association (SGA) sponsors who will be responsible for helping students come up with...
By Yash Nigram, Production Editor
• September 30, 2013
MCPS has established school-based wellness centers at Gaithersburg High School and Watkins Mill High School this school year to raise health awareness and make medical services more accessible to their...
By Michael Fox, Sports Photo Editor
• September 30, 2013
CHS distributes its daily announcements through the show known as the Daily Dose, and new Media Services Technician, Ben Schnapp, who replaced previous director Scott Selman, plans to provide...
By Ana Faguy, Production Editor
• September 30, 2013
Students may notice a new face at CHS this year; School Resource Officer (SRO) T.N. Hargrove was officially assigned to CHS. The Observer sat down with Officer Hargrove to find out more about her.
Officer...
All MCPS high school principals, including CHS Principal Joan Benz, received a memorandum from Deputy Superintendent Beth Schiavino-Narvaez July 26 reviewing the guidelines pertaining to student participation...
By Jordan Maser, Features Editor
• September 25, 2013
This past summer at least 50 new security cameras were installed throughout the CHS hallways due to a budget increase in the Division of Safety and Security.
Previously, CHS had only 32 operating security...
