The Department of Agriculture (USDA) named Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) a recipient of a 50,000 dollar grant to bring school meals directly from farms and fund the installment of school gardens. The USDA has been working for years to make school meals more nutritious. The grant will assist inContinue Reading
This year, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) approved funding to provide free menstrual hygiene products to 37 schools through their Menstrual Hygiene Pilot Program, which will be available in bathrooms across the school district. Though the program does not extend to Marshall, school board member Ryan McElveen said on TwitterContinue Reading
The golf team took third place in regionals this year, just missing the top two team cutoff to compete at states. The co-ed golf program has one varsity team, which went undefeated in regular district play for the past two seasons. Despite their perfect record, they lost to Thomas JeffersonContinue Reading
This fall, two boys joined the varsity cheerleading team for the first time in five years: freshman Hunter Magri and senior James Whitfield. Both Magri and Whitfield have done cheerleading previously. This season, Magri is a varsity alternate, while Whitfield is a backspot. “Being one of the two boys inContinue Reading
The Marshall Testing and Assessment Center office has introduced a new sign in system involving the use of QR codes to track students sign-in locations during LEARN. However, students have been having trouble with signing in. Dr. Nimel Theodore, Tim Cain, David Barkley and Rebecca Crawford all worked on theContinue Reading
In a press release on August 19, FCPS announced a new app would begin tracking buses for parents. Parents have complained that the app’s real-time tracking has been inaccurate. “I was hoping the tracking mechanism would be similar to Uber where you can see in real-time when (the bus) isContinue Reading
The seven members of the Loser’s Club, a group of friends from Derry, Maine, now adults with no memory of their childhood, reunited in “It: Chapter 2,” which arrived in theatres nationwide on Sept. 6. Though it was a satisfactory sequel to the 2017 film, “It: Chapter 2” lacked numerousContinue Reading
Students evacuated the building after an air conditioning unit in one of the C200 classrooms overheated causing smoke to fill its classrooms at the end of 5th period. “One of our air conditioning units burned out and caused an excessive amount of smoke to come into a couple of ourContinue Reading
DC Central Kitchen, a resource that supplies meals to various homeless shelters, has had an everlasting influence on both the homeless population of Washington D.C. and the Marshall community. But recent contract changes unfairly jeopardize its future service. The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness (TCP) awards contracts toContinue Reading
The smell of greasy funnel cakes mingles with the strong barbecue fumes of Town Green Park. Syrupy hands grip melting snow cones. Rock music pounds through the air. These scenes repeat every Memorial Day weekend at the Viva Vienna festival, but the experience of some high schoolers isn’t what theyContinue Reading