After a decade of planning, designing and forming a team, the North Potomac Community Center will begin construction on Travilah Road, near Big Pines Local Park, by August 2011. The new community center...

Biology teacher John Ernst’s snakes, George and Georgia, went missing Oct. 21. Although Georgia was found the next day by Sophomore Sander Yu in Ernst’s classroom during 7th period, George’s whereabouts...

On a Thursday evening last month, the CHS cafeteria was abuzz with students eagerly discussing and signing up for various extracurricular clubs at Club Night. However, a second glance at this seemingly...

When many American girls wake up in the morning, they probably put on their favorite outfit, pack a nutritious lunch with a water bottle and set off to school to see their friends. Although this is normal...

They are back, and they are everywhere. They fly, they smell and they just won’t leave. Stinkbugs have found their way into homes across Potomac and anywhere else they can get their little legs on, aggravating...

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, respectively, are holding rallies on the National Mall in D.C. Oct. 30. Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Colbert’s...

Montgomery County Public high schools are making changes to their Career Pathway and Internship programs in order to comply with new state laws and ensure that all of the high schools are operating similarly. Maryland...

  A large increase in student enrollment has lead to a locker shortage, resulting in some students not being assigned a locker. The freshmen class presents a problem because it is one of the biggest...

The language department changed its name from Foreign Languages to World Languages last spring, reflecting many American schools’ efforts to sound more global by using names that could be more politically...

        SGA PRESIDENT JAMIE OPPENHEIMERI play lacrosse and am a member of B’nai B’rith Girls (BBG). How well do people know the students leading their class? This year, the Observer...

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said after being questioned on the growing speculation surrounding...

Reflexes like a cat, stamina of a young bull and calves cut like diamonds—some have mentioned that I’m quite the athlete. It’s sincerely a shame that my affiliation with the Observer has prevented...