The Gaithersburg Book Festival has announced that its annual high school poetry contest is now open for submissions. First and second place winners will receive $250 and $100, respectively. Third […]
Author: MCS Staff
Thrive Montgomery 2050 is a comprehensive update to the 1964 General Plan, which has guided growth and development in the county for the last 60 years.
It has been met with plenty of support and plenty of criticism, including criticism from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on their draft fiscal impact statement (FIS), which Montgomery Planning responded to in a statement.
Little Miner Taco opened a MoCo location at 967 Rose Avenue inside The Block at Pike & Rose a couple months into the pandemic (July 2020).
In a social media post this morning, they announced that “teachers eat free,” by offering gift cards to all teachers who send an email to [email protected] with their name, email/phone number, school, and credentials.
The Montgomery County Board of Education (Board) held a business meeting on October 5, 2021.
Per MCPS:
A water main break late this morning has now closed Dufief Drive, near the area of Dufief Elementary School, between Darnestown Road and Brandyhall Lane.
WSSC Water crews are now on the scene of the 12” break, which was the cause of Dufief Elementary School closing at noon today.
Friendship BBQ, at 33 E Maryland Ave in Rockville Town Square has posted a hand-written sign on the door stating they are closed.
We are told that it is a “temporary suspension of operations.”
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) will celebrate the one-year anniversary of the County’s first rapid transit service—the Flash—with special greetings of riders on Thursday, Oct. 14. More than 500,000 riders have used the frequent and reliable Flash service. And now the County is looking toward expansion.
MCDOT outreach teams will be at several Flash stations on Oct. 14 to greet riders, solicit feedback about the service and distribute Flash anniversary items to riders.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue units were dispatched to Frederick Rd (355) at King Farm Blvd at approximately 5pm.
The collision between what looks to be two vehicles led to an overturned vehicle with at least one person trapped inside.
Rushern Baker (D), candidate for Maryland Governor, has announced that Montgomery County Council’s Nancy Navarro (D) will be his running mate for the upcoming election.
Baker was a two-term Prince George’s County Executive and represented legislative district 22B in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1994 to 2003. He ran for Governor in 2018, but lost the Democratic primary to Ben Jealous 40%-29%.
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Vie De France in Rockville Town Square will close permanently on October 23, according to a representative we spoke to on the phone this morning.
The French bakery chain, owned by Yamazaki Baking of Chiyoda, Japan with its US division headquartered in Tyson’s Corner, has put up a sign in front of the Rockville Town Square location announcing they will be “moving operations to their other locations in White Flint and Potomac.”
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11/1 Update: The date we were provided has been pushed back. Date TBD.
Last year there was a delay in opening as county had not yet adapted updated restrictions to allow the outdoor rink to open until November 10th. The rink opened a couple weeks after the updated restrictions went into effect.