Bird, Spin and Lime will provide e-scooters for participants to test ride and will teach proper e-scooter use and laws. Residents must be 18 or older and helmets are required.
Per Montgomery County Department of Transportation:
Montgomery County’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service, branded Flash, provides upgraded bus service on select corridors. The County is looking to extend this bus service to North Bethesda. The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) has kicked off a planning study for the North Bethesda BRT/Flash Bus Service to assist in determining the street layout, location of stations and the endpoints of the corridor.
Anyone interested it able to take a brief project survey to help refine goals and recommendations for the North Bethesda BRT Planning Study. The survey is available in English and Spanish. The survey will be open until Friday, April 29.
Per Montgomery County:
A collective of Maryland organizations and agencies have completed a groundbreaking research document, the “Maryland LGBTQ Historic Context,” making Maryland the second state in the nation to do so. The report, released in September 2020, illuminates Maryland LGBTQ history in rural, suburban and urban locations. The report will be the focus of a Montgomery History presentation available online starting Monday, April 11.
Spring break for Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) students is April 11 to 18. If your family is staying in town, Montgomery Parks has come up with a list of activities to keep the kids engaged and entertained.
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Montgomery Parks, with instruction by Thrive Yoga studio, is hosting free beginner yoga lessons at Long Branch-Arliss Neighborhood Park (8810 Garland Avenue, Silver Spring) the next four Thursdays (Thursdays, April 14, 21, 28, and May 5) from 6:30-7:30pm.
Full details below:
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The State of Maryland has awarded the Olney Boys & Girls Club with a $1 million grant to create a stadium with new dugouts, seating, lights, as well as additional field improvements, and a $1.75 million grant to build a multi–sport training facility, including a Med–Star–led rehab facility and courts and fields for soccer, basketball, baseball, football, lacrosse, softball, field hockey, wrestling, and a long–desired volleyball program.
The facility will feature indoor turf training fields and indoor batting cages. The new stadium will be the future home to the Cropdusters, a summer collegiate baseball team made up of talented players from around the country. It will be located at OGBC Park and specifics are being worked on now. Cropduster games will offer the community a family–friendly activity featuring autograph booths, giveaways, and opportunities for kids to be a part of the game. The team will compete in the Cal Ripken league beginning summer 2022, and games will be played at the Olney Boys & Girls Club field.
The “Rally to Protect our Neighborhoods” will take place Saturday, April 30 from 12-2pm at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown.
The event is being run in conjunction with the ‘Justice for Jai’lyn Rally’, in honor of 17-year-old Jai’lyn Jones, who was murdered in Germantown back in January.
The 2022 street sweeping schedule for residential sweeping routes has been released. This annual program is designed to ensure clean and environmentally friendly neighborhood streets. Residential sweeping begins every spring and typically ends in early July.
The 2022 Residential Sweeping Program started on April 6. In 2021, crews swept over 4,100 miles of roads in residential neighborhoods and removed over 1,200 tons of debris from our streets.
Forbes has released its 36th annual ranking of the world’s richest people with the 2022 ‘World’s Billionaire List.’
2,668 people made it on the list, 87 fewer than a year ago. They’re worth a collective $12.7 trillion—$400 billion less than in 2021.
The Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) has endorsed Marc Elrich for re-election as county executive.
His statement can be seen below:
Eater has released a list of ‘7 Exciting New Pizza Places to Try Around D.C.’ and the top two spots have got to two new Montgomery County restaurants.
Coming in at #2 is the recently opened Underground Pizza, which opened its first Montgomery County location in February after serving the area via pop-ups since 2020. Underground Pizza is located at 8235 Georgia Ave in Silver Spring. in the space that was formerly home to Olazzo.