State Approves Plan, Waives Four Snow Days Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has made final adjustments to this year’s school calendar and will make up two snow days. Under a plan approved by the Maryland State Department of Education on…
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Good Second Half
by Mike Cuthbert • • 0 Comments
The arts and athletics have a great deal in common. It takes a lot of time and effort to mount a successful team and for leaders to emerge. Games and performances develop rhythms of their own, and a strong effort…
Quince Orchard High School Hosts Cougar Relays
by Sally Alt • • 0 Comments
The annual Cougar Relays event drew a crowd at Quince Orchard High School on a rainy Saturday on March 29. Student athletes from 30 Montgomery County schools competed in the meet. The Quince Orchard throwers excelled in all four team…
Quince Orchard Lacrosse Opens Strong
by Syl Sobel • • 0 Comments
The Quince Orchard boys and girls lacrosse teams opened their seasons with victories almost two weeks ago, but weather has cancelled all of their games since then. “This weather is no fun,” said girls coach Jennifer Holliday Mohr. Mohr’s girls…
Play Ball!
by Mike Cuthbert • • 0 Comments
Opening Day for the Cougars was supposed to be at Whitman, but the Vikings’ field was a quagmire and the two teams faced off at Quince Orchard to start the baseball season. Jason Gasaway, the Cougars’ longtime coach, was encouraged.…
QO Theatre Rocks ‘Bye Bye Birdie’
by Mike Cuthbert • • 0 Comments
It’s 1958 in Sweet Apple, Ohio, and that’s the first challenge in producing “Bye Bye Birdie” with today’s teenage performers. “The relevancy to today was something I talked with the students about last fall when we selected it to do,”…
Kelley Continues Cougar Tradition
by Syl Sobel • • 0 Comments
Quince Orchard kept it in the family when they named Assistant Coach John Kelley as the new head football coach to replace Dave Mencarini, who resigned last month to coach closer to his home in Urbana. “QO has established itself…
Assignment Education
by Pam Schipper • • 0 Comments
Will Snowcation Eat Into Vacation? Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has had a total of 10 snow days this year, but the Montgomery County Board of Education only budgeted for four. That means that MCPS is six days over its…
‘G’ Misses First Show Since 1992
by Mike Cuthbert • • 0 Comments
The opening of “Bye Bye Birdie” this month will be historic. It will mark the first Quince Orchard High School show since 1992 to be staged without Karen Garner as its technical director. Known to thousands of students and parents…
High Expectations for Lady Cougars Lacrosse Squad
by Syl Sobel • • 0 Comments
In her first two seasons as head coach of the Quince Orchard Cougars girls’ lacrosse team, Jennifer Holliday Mohr has led the Lady Cougars to back-to-back division titles. This year, she’s set the bar a notch higher. “I expect that…