On a Monday afternoon in early March, dental assistant and senior Aracely Blanco aided her boss with a filling, a crown and a root canal. It was a hectic day typical of her $9-an-hour, part-time job at Congressional Dental Care in Rockville. As she held a suction tube and watched her boss drill into a cavity, Blanco did not think about going shopping with the $270 she would earn over the next two weeks.
On Dec. 16, Juan, a freshman, awoke at 5:30 a.m. to a gun pointed at his face. Three police officers in full SWAT gear stood staring back at him. As Juan and his family were forced bodily from their beds and handcuffed, the rest of the 12-member team ransacked the house for evidence of gang activity — it had received a tip from Blair security that Juan had allegedly attacked another student with a gun.
The Blair boys' tennis team defeated the Whitman Vikings today in what turned out to be a very close game. The Blazers won 4-3 to remain undefeated at 7-0, while Whitman was dealt its second loss this season against county teams.
Blair's team participated in the second round of the "It's Academic" competition on March 11. The event will air on Saturday, April 8 at 10 a.m. on NBC4.
For the first time this season, the stands and the bench were completely silent. Parents anxiously readjusted seats and looked up at the sky or out towards the Blair parking lot, anywhere but the field, where Blair had just fallen behind 3-2. A team that had beaten their last three opponents by a combined score of 45-3 had given up the same number of runs in a single inning. The game seemed to be falling apart.
Four Blazers received awards at the annual NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural Technological and Sciences Olympics (ACT-SO) regional competition, held on Sunday, March 26 at the Montgomery College Rockville Campus.
Two Blazers earned three awards at the Montgomery County History Day competition, held on March 25 at Julius West Middle School in Rockville.
The blustery, chilly weather this afternoon made it feel as if it were still winter. And when it came to defense, the Blair Blazers looked just as cold.
While Lucasarts, producer of all Star Wars games, has a generally excellent track record, their Real-time-strategy (RTS) games, where the player controls groups of units in battle, have generally been weak. From the awful "Force Commander" to the repetitive "Galactic Battlegrounds," which essentially amounted to a Star Wars mod of "Age of Empires," Lucasarts has not had good luck with RTS games. Finally, with "Star Wars: Empire at War," Lucasarts has done the RTS thing right.
Georgetown. George Mason. Wichita State. Bradley. Raise your hand if you had all four teams in the Sweet Sixteen. Put 'em down, liars...
Blair opened up their second game of the year with a three run first inning and never looked back, winning 10-0 against a clearly overmatched Rockville squad. Junior Annie Denenberg pitched a shutout for four inning before the game was called due to the mercy rule. Blair improved their record to 2-0 and with another outstanding performance from the entire roster.
A small orange ball rolls smoothly past a throng of people lined up on the bleachers. WHACK! Curved yellow and blue plastic sticks smack against each other in midswing, all in an effort to direct the tiny sphere into the other team's net.
"Thank You for Smoking," the break-out hit from this year's Sundance Film Festival, is one of the best satires made in years.
Blair seniors and juniors won 37 awards at the 50th Montgomery County Science Fair, held at the Montgomery County Fair Grounds from March 10-12.
The Big East is the deepest and the best conference in college basketball. They also could have got more than eight teams into the tournament, if tournament regulars Cincinnati and Louisville were invited. The Big East has something to offer for every fan and it's time for everyone to jump on the bandwagon.
With quail hunting's recent dramatic drop in popularity, the Chips Technical Staff has lost its favorite hobby. But we're not going to let that stop us from taking wild shots at your questions. For this Ask Chips we bring together Senior Technical Staff Eric Hysen and recent tech initiate Dan Green, as they work with various Blair faculty members and other Chips staffers to tackle though questions.
"Black. White." is a new reality show that pushes buttons because it deals with a topic that not many people want to discuss: racism. It is not only controversial because it searches for racism in America but because it questions society's definition of race. The show poses the questions: What makes you black? What makes you white?
It's time. After 15 minutes of Jon Stewart's comedy and some old gay western jokes, the results are in. Here are the 78th Academy Award winners.
"I went to Honduras two years ago and it was different. I stayed in both the country and the city. After a certain time you couldn't be outside because it was kind of dangerous. I was there a month. They don't have stores like Giant or Safeway. They have markets that travel. They [the markets] came to the corner of my grandmother's house every Friday and they would sell coconuts, cilantro, oranges, other fruits and vegetables, clothes."
A quick upward thrust to the nose, followed by a fast knee in the groin. As my attacker keels over, I deliver a kick to the face. "No!" I yell, striking the lower back. "No! No! No!"
Figure skating is only important to most people once every four years. During a brief few weeks, ice skating makes headlines as skaters compete for Olympic gold. But for senior Lily Jaffie-Shupe, ice skating is not a trend that is quickly forgotten after the Olympic torch is extinguished. For Jaffie-Shupe, every day revolves around ice shards and glittery costumes.
Blair will be holding a meeting after school in the Media Center on Mar. 7 for students interested in creating rectangles to make afghans, or knitted or crocheted quilts, for wounded soldiers.
Boys' varsity basketball coach Orlando Larracuente was released today, March 1, according to Blair Athletic Director Dale Miller and James Short, Blair's administrator in charge of athletics.
Two of five potential candidates will be chosen as final nominees for the 29th Student Member of the Board (SMOB) at the Nominating Convention at Northwest High School on March 2.
Considering the Blair boys' varsity basketball team went 4-16, they couldn't have asked for a much better playoff draw than the one they got. Instead of facing a juggernaut like Springbrook or Magruder, the Blazers drew the 5-16 Quince Orchard Cougars, a team they lost to by just two points eight days earlier. While Blair drew a beatable opponent, they fell behind early and were humbled by a 24-point blowout loss that ended their season.
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