On Feb. 10, 2025, the Trump Administration released an executive order to indefinitely halt the production of the one-cent coin, the penny. While the President and his Administration hailed the order as...

It has been 35 long years since a WCHS student held the title of Student Member of the Board of Education (SMOB). This one-year term position gets full voting power at the county Board of Education (BOE),...

In March 2023, MCPS reversed its policy of providing parents notice and an opt-out option regarding LGBTQ+ texts in K-5 school curriculums. MCPS had implemented this change citing the need to comply with...

Everyone knows the feeling of waking up in the morning, remembering it is a snow day and excitedly hurrying over to the window to see the winter wonderland outside. While younger children often spend the...

Though only a handful of the 2024 general election races received mass media coverage, special attention is worth paying to the results of smaller and less high-profile elections, which will have effects...

The afternoon before every football game, WCHS Principal John Taylor sends out an email with general information about that night’s event. One of the first notes about the game is consistently about...

Political musicals and wildlife conservation are interests that rarely overlap, but Dr. Anne Beggs meshes them together seamlessly. Her interests are not limited to this odd pairing; in all aspects of...

Towards the end of the third quarter, MCPS students, teachers and parents alike were caught off guard by a sudden overhaul in Synergy, the system that serves as the center for students’ most important...

Eight year old children beating each other, stealing from local businesses and smoking marijuana seems like a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. However, that became reality last month when about 800...

On May 23, 2024, the Montgomery County Council approved a $7.1 billion budget for Montgomery County’s fiscal year 2025, which is higher than the gross domestic product (GDP) of at least 42 countries,...

When one thinks of school punishments, they think of office referrals, or phone calls home or even suspensions. Yet, an inventive new punishment has taken WCHS by storm. An experimental policy, first implemented...

Every year, on Feb. 2, a furry rodent crawls out of his den to the bated breath of thousands of people, ready to predict the upcoming weather. His name is Punxsutawney Phil, and according to legend, this...