2012Session

When Marc Scher wanted to expand his advertising, he turned to Facebook. His family’s seventy-nine year old business, located in Pocomoke City, Md., began using Facebook in August 2009. An icon on the top right corner of the store’s website invites people to visit its Facebook page. Four years later, Scher’s page has garnered over 3,000 likes on Facebook, more than 200 photos and dozens of positive posts and comments.

As Fairfax County’s first charter school proposal prepares to go before the county’s school board this summer, some parents --and students--question whether the charter school is necessary.

The Oxon Hill Clippers can breathe a little easier now that they have passed their accreditation assessment.

A Bible Club at McDonough High School has come a long way since its days at the lunch table. Student leaders hope to keep up the momentum.

The Washington Nationals’ improved play through one-third of baseball’s regular season has spawned realistic expectations of their first postseason berth, and much of that can be credited to their use of the sport’s economics.