Urbana High School sophomores Michael Snyder and Anphi Le won individual titles at the Frederick County golf tournament hosted by Clustered Spires Golf Course on Sept. 17, leading the defending Class 4A/3A state champion Hawks to their 11th consecutive county…
At the Linganore-Oakdale-Urbana (LOU) redistricting public hearing held on Sept. 17 at Urbana High School (UHS), residents highlighted issues that they hope the Board of Education will resolve. As one father of a Centerville Elementary student put it, “You are…
It takes a lot of work to #dreambigsoarhigh as the Urbana High School Show Choir hashtag declares, and the Soaring Sensations have been putting in that work. The group of fully choreographed and staged choral performers was established in 1998,…
Dedicated is what springs to mind when I think about my conversation with Urbana High School’s Spanish teacher, guitar teacher and orchestra director Hector Ayerdiz. “My job as a teacher—students come in at different levels—is to help them improve their…
Running, and distance running in particular, reveals a lot about a person’s character, patience and long-term perseverance, Hawks boys’ cross country coach Tim Snyder said. Despite graduating three of its top five runners from a year ago, Urbana boys’ cross…
Author Erin Teagan will be presenting “Fast Drafting for the Not-So-Speedy Writer” at the Urbana Regional Library on Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Teagan wrote the Luciana series (American Girl’s 2018 Girl of the Year), “The Friendship Experiment”…
With the tagline, “No kid sleeps on the floor in our town,” the nonprofit Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) and its countless volunteers put words into action across the country. SHP was founded seven years ago in Twin Falls, Idaho,…
After work on Urbana’s very own pump track began mid-August of this year, the community has been waiting with bated breath on its completion. The Urbana Skate Park recently announced that after weeks of hard work and heavy-lifting, its long-awaited…
More than 20 moms and their little ones descended on the Urbana Community Park on Sept. 11 when the MOMS Club of Urbana held their first open house. The club welcomed prospective new members. “It was a great opportunity for…
Three games into 2019 and the Hawks have already exceeded their win total from a year ago—and are off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 2013. Though five-time state champion Urbana had been a postseason mainstay until…
