From catcher to outfielder to second baseman, WCHS senior Leah Sonnabend can do it all. Sonnabend is a highly valuable player on the WCHS Girls Varsity Softball Team and a utility player, indicating that...
From Starbucks Pink Drinks to Zara Larson’s song “Lush Life,” people are starting to see 2026 trends become reminiscent of 2016. Celebrities like Billie Eilish and Kylie Jenner have been reposting...
75 Student Service Learning (SSL) hours are required by MCPS in order for a student to graduate. The intention for these hours was that they would be earned through work in the community. However, students...
Sitting in the Herbert Hoover Middle School computer lab on a cold January day, I remember feeling overjoyed to finally have the freedom to pick my classes, specifically journalism. I had already started...
Check under the desks! Check inside the lockers! Check on the side of vending machines! The Churchill Observer has hidden 10 $100 bills throughout the school for all students to find! After inheriting...
Pens scribbling on test booklets, timers ticking down on boards, and students inevitably stressing at each turn of a page. When AP season kicks off across the nation on May 1, these are things one can...
Every day, students listen to the morning announcements during second period and hear various updates about the many sports teams at WCHS. Basketball won another game, swim is rolling through the competition...
In 2015, the Habtemariam family had a dream, bought a food truck and started their culinary adventure in Washington, DC. Their dream? To produce fresh comfort food to local customers in the form of chicken...
The year is 1976. In theaters across the nation, moviegoers are watching the movie “Rocky” and its inspirational story of young boxer Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) as he took on fictional champion...
It’s 7:45 am on Dec 19. The bell ringing symbolizes the start of what many consider to be the longest four days of the school year, the week before Winter Break. While many students simply want to show...
By Ryan Weiner, Editor-in-Chief
• October 20, 2022
The month is May 2020. Needing a new WiFi plan, a customer walks into the Verizon store and asks one of the store’s employees for help. Although the employee looks out of place, as he is six feet seven...
Although his dominant season came to an unfortunate end when WCHS lost in the state semifinals to Sherwood High School, junior Chris Hacopian still wasn’t finished. Hacopian, who put up a ridiculous...
