A Preview into This Year’s Season At Oakland Mills, many teams in the winter season are known for their competitiveness and impressive records. OM’s basketball teams have always been known for putting up great fights; win or lose, they never go down without trying. This year’s varsity boys’ team, consisting of notable players Hayes Bishop, Caleb Redd, Jayden Claderon, and Daniel Ndiritu, is off to … Continue reading Winter Sports
OMHS’s Choir Director Walking the halls of OM, you may run across our choir director and a beloved staff member, Dr. Coleman. Growing up in Alabama and pursuing musical endeavours in church, he was blessed to have very strong musicians as teachers in school for band and choir, as well as having great private teachers for singing, playing trumpet, and playing piano. His band and … Continue reading Recognizing Dr. Coleman
What led up to this crisis? In April of 2023, the African country of Sudan went into civil war following a struggle for power between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Tensions began as far back as 2019, having increased concerning Sudanese former-president Omar Al-Bashir’s expulsion from his presidential position in 2019 in a coup from the SAF, after serving … Continue reading Civil War in Sudan – A Fight for Powers
Oakland Mills Sharply Responds to Renovation Delays For four early and cold mornings, Oakland Mills staff members were not in their classes, but were outside in front of Oakland Mills, making a case for renovating our 50-year-old building. This movement garnered participation from staff, students, and families. This came after the Howard County Public School System’s Board of Education voted to abandon the Superintendent’s proposed … Continue reading Keep Your PrOMise
Impact and Devastation On October 28th, 2025, the streets of Kingston were not the usual music-filled, lively hubs of art and food. It was barricaded, dark and gray, empty. On October 28th, Hurricane Melissa made landfall. Melissa made her impact in waves, resulting in hundreds of power outages in the Caribbean before even making landfall. Airports closed, tourists left in hordes, and the islands across … Continue reading Hurricane Melissa
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