On Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, West Potomac students participated in a nationwide protest against gun violence in America. The protest involved students walking out of the building and to the football field...

After years of hard work and dedication, senior Genevieve Cummings is leaping into her final spring Track and Field season. Genevieve is committed to continue her athletic and academic career at Virginia...

An athlete poses with a Celsius before a game.

Email received by The Wire that Principals were instructed to send out to journalists as a response to the Hayfield football scandal.

For countless West Po students May doesn’t symbolize a time of relaxation, instead May means hours of studying and stress for AP exams. While The Wire staff prep for the upcoming paper they also have...

Last night West Potomac Girls Basketball defeated South County 41-39 in the Regional semi-finals on a last second shot by junior, Abby Beddis, to advance to tonight's game against Robinson that will be...

Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order 33 to ban all cell phones in schools across Virginia took effect on Jan. 1, 2025. However, about a month into the new supposed cell phone ban, there has been little...

Local journalism is a dying profession. Since the start of the 2000s over one-third of the country's newspapers and two-thirds of its journalists have been lost according to a study from Northwestern University’s...

On October 31st, Puffs came to the West Potomac. In doing so Puffs brings a hilarious story of unlikely heroes and community to West Po. Puffs follows the story of three Hufflepuff's and their lives while...

Wolverines, mark your calendars for September 28th to enjoy a night under the stars at West Potomac Homecoming. With homecoming week not far away, West Po students have many ways to display their school...

Few events in American history have had the same devastating effects as 9/11. On September 11th, 2001 it only took two hours for the lives of millions of Americans to change. At 8:46 ET the North Tower...

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are participating in a vital debate September 10th.

Photo of the layout of the 2023-2024 West Potomac Yearbook

If you've passed through Gunston recently you've probably noticed the renovated pond in the Gunston Zen Hallway. This project was proposed in the fall of 2023 by Mr. Cooper who is one of the special education...

Mr. Dan Fitzgerald has taught here for 23 years as a French teacher. He had an extensive college education where he went to Franklin College in Indiana. He started his college career as a double major...

Screenshot of message sent to parents at 9:15 AM.

There’s a new reason to come to class for a whole lot of Wolverines. La Liga, a new intramural soccer league will be played during the 2nd half of advisory. La Liga will include eight separate teams...

Last Thursday, Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark went on social media to announce that she will not return to Iowa for her fifth year and instead declared for the 2024 WNBA draft.  Three...

The Mean Girls Musical adaptation was released in theaters on January 12th. The original movie became one of the most iconic movies of the 2000s, but will the adaptation live up to the same expectations? Freshman...

A cross country coach, a future Navy Seal, and a swimmer with dreams of the Olympics were among the 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 5 years ago on February 14, 2018....

Local voters had the opportunity to weigh in on predominant issues in the community by voting for new Local Office, House of Delegate and Virginia Senate representatives Tuesday. Virginia Democrats won...

It's finally Election Day in Virginia, though the sheer amount of political promotional signs on Government Center property have been announcing election day for weeks. All the State Delegate and State...

Last night West Potomac Varsity Girls Volleyball defeated Lewis in three straight sets to advance to tonight’s Region quarter-final at Thomas Jefferson High School at 6:30 p.m. Recently, the team...