Every school year, CHS puts on multiple productions ranging from Churchill’s Got Talent to Blast. In addition to the on-stage performers who spend hours after school rehearsing, each performance requires...
This past fall, voters headed to the polls to cast their ballot in the 2014 midterms, but as the doors closed on the election, another opens: the fast approaching 2016 presidential election.
The political...
Congratulations to junior Bethany Dubick who recently committed to play lacrosse at Oberlin College beginning in the spring of 2017.
Only having started lacrosse four years ago, Dubick has played varsity...
The CHS Varsity One hockey team defeated Marriotts Ridge 10-0 in the 2015 Maryland Student Hockey League (MSHL) 2A championship at The Gardens Ice House in Laurel Feb. 27.
This is CHS’ second state...
Geometry teacher Hsinyu Ho won The Gazette’s “My Favorite Teacher” contest for MCPS high school teachers after being nominated and named a finalist earlier this school year.
This award is given...
From an increased dependency on technology to a student population that is growing by thousands each year, in the three years since Joshua Starr became Superintendent of MCPS, he and the rest of MCPS leadership...
Sweeping changes are coming to Capitol Hill and several state houses next year.
Republicans gained control of the U.S. Senate last week, with a current net pickup of eight seats, and strengthened...
MCPS paid D.C. law firm Venable, LLP $140,000 between May and August of this year to advise and defend the Board of Education (BOE) in an incident of recent credit card misuse.
According to a September...
For centuries, people have sought better lives by immigrating to America, and it is no different for the influx of unaccompanied Central American minors newly enrolled in MCPS.
According to Laura Newton,...
CHS freshmen gathered at Shepherd Stadium during lunch Thursday for the annual D.A.W.G.S. Freshman Picnic.
According to event co-chair and CHS parent Natasha Greig, D.A.W.G.S. is an acronym for “Dances...
Gayle Jones
After 35 years at CHS, spanish teacher Gayle Jones will retire at the end of June.
CHS hired Jones for her first teaching job in February 1979 after another employee was transferred.
“Spanish...
Two recent incidents of Jewish mistreatment, one in Auschwitz, Poland Jan. 31 and the other in Dallas Feb. 19, have caused several to wonder if anti-Semitism is still present in the world today.
Although...
