By Sydney Stern, Subscriptions, Promotions, and Communications Manager
• March 1, 2025
It is 6:45 a.m. and the phone alarm clock is vibrating. After picking up the phone and opening the weather app, it is revealed that it is a sunny day with a low of 36 degrees and a high of 54 degrees....
MCPS extended the 2015-2016 school year by one day, making the last day of the school year June 20. The request for the one-day waiver was approved by the Maryland State Department of Education April 19.
State...
The MCPS Board of Education put out a memorandum on March 3, stating the revisions for the third and fourth marking periods.
The third marking period will now end on April 12, the week after spring...
By Thomas Atkinson, Public Relations Manager
• November 21, 2014
Sophomore Jacob Friedman remembers having to walk to school on icy, uncleared sidewalks with start of winter just around the corner.
“Many people didn’t shovel the sidewalks, including the school,”...
By Gil Jacobson, Production Editor
• February 27, 2014
After a relaxing five-day weekend, many students and staff returned to CHS last Tuesday to the surprise of significant amounts of un-plowed snow and ice in the parking lots.
This un-plowed snow and...
By Yash Nigam, Production Editor
• January 10, 2014
MCPS acted irresponsibly by deciding against a school delay Jan. 7, the coldest day of not only this year but also the past two decades. Its inaction and failure to realize that subzero temperatures can...
As the last of the 20-plus inches of snow melt away, the CHS fields are still saturated and muddy, but this will not cause any setbacks in the spring sports schedule, which starts before spring break....
Due to the severe storms that hit the area this winter, MCPS cancelled nine school days, exceeding the four contingency days currently built into the school calendar.
While the calendar calls for five...
