Extension In School Year

Lauren MacFadden ’17 The school year for students will be extended by a day as a result of a category-four blizzard that hit Maryland on January 28 and brought two feet of snow, trapping many in their homes for days and making some transportation impossible. MCPS, along with neighboring counties, cancelled school for six days, using up the remainder of … Read More

Sherwood Student Film Fest Review

By Alex Nnabue ’18 The third annual Sherwood Student Film Festival will be held in the Ertzman from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on April 28. The festival is sponsored by English teacher Christiane Lock and will take place in conjunction  with the annual art show with junior Leo Trieu serving as the announcer. Inspired by the final film project that … Read More

Boys Lacrosse Starts Early Preparing for Playoffs

By Elizabeth Kronlage ’18 The boys’ lacrosse team scheduled teams outside of Montgomery County at the start the season to prepare them for the higher level of competition in the playoffs. The boys and girls purposely scheduled teams out of the county because they are not playing Good Counsel this year. While the boys have played Good Counsel in previous … Read More

Blast from the Past: Apocalypse Now

by Tyler Ruth ’16 In Joseph Conrad’s 1901 novella “Heart of Darkness,” Marlow, the first-person narrator, recounts the story of when he travels deeper and deeper into the depths of Africa to find Kurtz, a man who abandoned his job with an ivory trading company, went insane, and became a godlike figure to the native African people.  In “Apocalypse Now,” … Read More

Young Republicans and Democrats Debate

  By Chase Wilson ’17 (Photo) and Chris Sung ’17 (Caption) Responding to comments made by Young Democrat Madeline Daugherty ’17, Young Republican Mike Ricciardella ‘17 counters claims made against the Republican National Committee’s platform on global climate change. While Ricciardella speaks, the moderator, panelists, and other debaters stare at Ricciardella in earnest. Although underestimated, the Young Republicans were able … Read More

A Play of ‘Almost’ Perfect Love Stories

By Lydia Velazquez ’17 The Northern lights are considered to be fairly magical, and in the (imaginary) town of Almost, Maine, these lights influence whether nine couples’ relationships fall apart or come together. Rather than putting together one large, cohesive play, the Sherwood C.A.S.T will be producing “Almost, Maine,” a collection of vignettes focused on the concepts of love and … Read More

Speaker Explains How To Save a Life

by Kayla Cohen ’17 Organ donation is an irrefutable act of kindness. People whose organs do not work properly are in dire need of a donor. On March 22, Terry Murray from the Washington Regional Transplant Community came to talk to students taking Health about organ donation. She explained the process of how they can donate to the cause and … Read More

Softball Comes Out On Top in Championship Rematch

by Natalie Murray ’18 After last facing the Northwest Jaguars in the 2015 state championships, every member of the Sherwood softball team knew they would have to play their best if they wanted to defeat Northwest–one of their toughest competitors. On April 5, the Warriors defeated the Jaguars by a close margin of 10-7. Though the game started out slowly … Read More

Continuing Our Momentum

Eric Guerci, Student Member of the Board Last year, in an election that saw unprecedented amounts of voter involvement, you sent me to the Board table to represent every one of Montgomery County’s 156,000 students and their voices. The context of that election was not optimistic. The implementation of PARCC saw widespread dissent, our schools lacked a permanent superintendent, testing … Read More