Our school’s girls basketball team, headed by Coach of the Year Devaughn Drayton and senior captains Ana Bournigal, Emma Nelsen and Molly Kaufman, achieved unprecedented success during this year’s season. Thanks to their unique team camaraderie and...
Arlington’s David M. Brown Planetarium has yet to reopen after closing its doors in 2018. Community members are distraught and continue to push for it to be brought back as a resource for the school system.
Opening in 1969, the planetarium has...
Literature has always been used to spread new ideas and challenge the status quo, and consequently, literature and learning have been opposed by many. The banning of books and literature in schools, especially those focused on the struggles of marginalized...
Until recently, a replacement for the dim, nearly twenty-year-old scoreboard at Greenbrier Field seemed anything but likely. The Yorktown Boosters, however, have teamed up with Wakefield and Washington-Liberty in an attempt to rally momentum around the...
The One Day Issue: https://yorktownsentry.com/category/one-day2022/
Part I: The Story
Despite today’s issue of the paper being the ‘One Day Issue,’ this story starts yesterday. I was sitting in a car with Ryan Thomas Cole, our esteemed head...
Once, there was darkness. Dryness. A devastating absence of water. Then: drip. Millions of years later, our school’s students carry the torch, borne by seminal geezers like former President Rutherford Birchard Hayes and the dearly missed Amelia “Lucky...
Mark your calendars. From March 24-26 our school’s theater department will be putting on a production of Annie. The musical will showcase The Sentry’s very own Fiona Shepherd, who will be starring in the lead role. Several staff members are scheduled...
From March 22-25, English 11 students will take their writing SOL (Standards of Learning). On the first day of the test, students will take the multiple choice section. On the second day, students will take the essay section.
The multiple choice...
This past Friday, fans from our school and Washington-Liberty (W-L) High School packed the stands at MedStar Capitals Iceplex to view the sports spectacle of the year: the Yorktown vs. W-L hockey game. It was a hard fought battle between the two long-standing...
At 1:25 p.m. on Thursday, February 10, senior Billy Baldwin was confused. As he walked toward the main entrance of our school, he noticed a large group of students standing by the doors. Baldwin was returning from a relaxing lunch in his car, but when...
Joshua Allman, Sentry Staff Reporter
• March 8, 2022
Teachers, doctors and frontline workers used to be the heroes of the pandemic — the souls who braved the issues brought about by COVID-19. However, amidst recent controversy surrounding public safety, the praise these heroes once enjoyed has been forgotten....
The pandemic has caused new safety measures to be put into place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on buses. Aside from maintaining social distance and practicing mask wearing, bus drivers have had to implement new methods to provide better ventilation...
