Kusshi ko, a restaurant by the folks who have brought you Kusshi Sushi (Pike & Rose), Hanaro (Bethesda), and Poke Dojo (Bethesda Row), will be moving into the location formerly occupied by Gusto in Downtown Silver Spring (8512 Fenton Street).
For now, management tells us they know that sushi will be part of what the restaurant offers, but they’re looking into doing more than just sushi with the space. “We know it‘ll be more quick service style,” owner Wesley Yao tells us.
MCPS released a letter to the community, providing details on rapid testing and adjustments to the quarantine policy.
It can be seen below:
Personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2021’s Most & Least Diverse States in America.
Maryland ranked as the 7th most diverse state in America on the list for the fourth year in a row. Our neighbor Virginia ranked 12th, while California came in 1st.
This young man grew up in the Woodside Forest neighborhood of Silver Spring. He attended Montgomery Hills Junior High with Sylvester Stallone in the late 50s. He then moved on to Blair High School, where he was a year ahead of Goldie Hawn and graduated with journalist, Carl Bernstein (teamed with Bob Woodward to do much of the original reporting on the Watergate Scandal, which led to the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon).
He majored in economics at Columbia University’s Columbia College and graduated with honors before graduating as valedictorian from Yale Law School. After a stint as a lawyer in Connecticut and Washington D.C., he became a college professor at American University, Cal, and Pepperdine. He jumped into politics as a speechwriter and lasers for President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford. Time magazine even speculated that he could be Deep Throat, but it was later revealed to not be the case.
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has 231 semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship competition. The semifinalists will compete nationally for scholarships that will be announced in the spring. The competition is sponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.
The MCPS semifinalists come from 16 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walter Johnson, Walt Whitman, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Quince Orchard, Northwest, Albert Einstein, Poolesville, Winston Churchill, Richard Montgomery, Thomas S. Wootton, Sherwood, Montgomery Blair and Wheaton.
Summer is coming to an end tomorrow (Tuesday, 9/21) and though it may feel warmer a few days, it currently looks like highs will remain below 80° for the foreseeable future.
Tems will be in the upper 70s for the last two days of summer (Monday and Tuesday), with an increasing chance of rain as we get into the middle part of the week.
The Burger King located at 16004 Shady Grove Rd has been temporarily closed for renovations since the start of 2021.
We stopped by earlier to take a look at the progress and it looks as though the exterior of the building is almost ready to go, but there’s plenty of work to be done on the interior and in the surrounding parking and drive-thru areas (photos below).
Call Your Mother, the award-winning Jew-ish deli, at Pike & Rose will open TOMORROW (Monday, September 20th). Located at 11807 Grand Park Ave. in North Bethesda, MD, the bagel shop and deli will feature homemade, signature bagels, creative sandwiches, coffee, and nostalgic pastries.
We stopped by and took some pictures of the interior and the menu for you to check out (photos at the end of this article).
Many were disappointed when the City of Gaithersburg announced the cancellation of its Oktoberfest celebration in the Kentlands neighborhood. That was followed up by the City of Rockville cancelling Rocktobierfest a few days later.
Comus Inn looks to fill the void with a five day celebration that starts on Wednesday, September 22nd and goes until Sunday, September 26th.
Lending Tree, a U.S. online loan marketplace company, has created and released a list ranking “How Much is Costs to Raise a Small Child in Each State.”
Researchers from the website analyzed data from several sources to estimate and rank the costs to raise a child in each state and the District of Columbia.
Updated on 10/23 to reflect Grand Opening Date
The Sweet Lemon Gift Shop is moving into the Poolesville Village Center (19710-C Fisher Ave.), between Subway and the Montgomery County liquor store.