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The Bear Facts

Lake Braddock's Independent Student Newspaper

The Bear Facts

Lake Braddock's Independent Student Newspaper

The Bear Facts

Seasonal Supremacy

Seasonal Supremacy

Eric Voegtlin, Online Editor December 19, 2024

Think for a second, and ask yourself a simple question, how often do you listen to Christmas music? For most people they would say anytime after Thanksgiving while others would say the second Halloween...

Josephine Ha returns a serve at the match against West Potomac. Photo courtesy of Khoi Truong

Josephine Ha, Girls Varsity Tennis

Lee Beltran and Julia Key May 4, 2023

            Practices, scrimmages, matches, finals, sunburns, hard work, and a plethora of tennis balls. Led by Coach Maxwell and Assistant Coach Truong, the girls varsity tennis team is back...

Spotify: Is Listening Everything?

Lee Beltran January 25, 2023

Blocked websites and filtered searches come as no surprise to the majority of staff and students. Since 1998, the FCPS school board has taken an active approach in protecting their students from harmful...

Graphic by Julia Key

Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe dead?

Kyle Helm, Staff Writer January 23, 2023

Throughout many years of cinema history, the quality of movies has been increasing over time. From technical quality such as the switch from black and white to full color movies, visual quality with the...

Ms. Lindsey Kearns holds her newborn son, Declan. Photo Courtesy of Ms. Lindsey  Kearns

Meet Ms. Lindsey Kearns

Claire Holiday, Staff Writer January 23, 2023

Many know Ms. Lindsey Kearns as the current interim principal but beyond her job, she’s a wife and a mom to one year old child. However, with her husband’s job requiring lots of travel, it’s difficult...

Buying Service Hours

Sophia Healey, Staff Writer January 23, 2023

Positive Clubs and honor societies such as NHS and Key club set a high requirement for service hours, and many prohibit “double dipping” or using the hours for more than one club. These strict guidelines...

Mental Health Crisis Looms

Oliver Duffy, Staff Writer January 23, 2023

Over 77,000 physicians and 200 children’s hospitals declared a mental health crisis over a year ago. The lack of mental health professionals and space for behavioral health patients is not new, but the...

Books to Read Before You Graduate

Lauren Zheng - Staff Editor March 10, 2021

Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott “I consider Towards a New Socialism pretty much essential reading for leftists, Marxists of course, but also those with basic knowledge who are trying...

Writing Center

Keke Nerwai, Staff writer February 22, 2019

Need help writing something? Well you can just ask the Writing Center for help. Every second half of 6th period bruin block in H228 Mr. McCabe’s classroom. Students go to Mr. McCabe’s room for help...

Winter workout, spring tryout

Evan Downs, Staff Writer January 6, 2017

Spring athletes need to prepare for tryouts over the winter, but this isn’t necessarily the easiest thing to do when they are buried in the snow. Most have their tryouts in the last couple weeks of February,...

Young Conservative Club

Kyle Smith, Staff Writer November 14, 2016

Lake Braddock has a large proportion of liberal leaning students. Especially in this political climate, tension can arise between students who are liberal and those who are conservative. In response to...

DECA Pumpkin Carving Competition

DECA Pumpkin Carving Competition

November 9, 2016

The DECA officers would like to congratulate the winners of the Inaugural Pumpkin Carving Competition which took place on October 27th. The winners are the following: Gabby Mariello for Best Overall, Allison...

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