Did you know Kimmy Gatewood is from Silver Spring and graduated from Paint Branch High School?
The MoCo native stars in GLOW as Stacey Beswick and portrayed Coach Crowley in Atypical, both successful series on Netflix. You may even remember her as Hillary Clinton or Marilyn Monroe from the “Epic Rap Battles of History” video series.
MoCo Announces 50 Ballot Drop Off Locations for 2020 General Election
Montgomery County officials are looking to think inside the box for the upcoming election. Holding elections during a pandemic was always going to be a tricky undertaking, and many citizens relied on Maryland’s mail-in voting program to cast their votes in the June primary elections. Official ballot drop-boxes are a convenient method for MD voters to cast their ballot without having to put it in the mail.
Pete Sampras has won 14 Grand Slam singles titles during his career, which was an Open Era record at the time of his retirement. He spent 263 total weeks ranked as the best tennis player in the world (3rd most all-time).
He spent the first seven years of his life in Potomac before his family moved west to California.
MoCo Sample Ballots On the Way
The Montgomery County Board of Elections has stated that the Montgomery County Sample Ballots for the upcoming 2020 general election will be arriving to registered voters’ mailboxes this week.
Things To Do: 13 Acre Corn Maze (Rock Hill Orchard)
Now that summer is over, it may be a little more difficult to find outdoor activities, but did you know there’s a 13 acre corn maze that you can explore in upper MoCo?
“Flower Girl” in Anti-War Photograph Went to Montgomery College
French photojournalist Marc Riboud was renowned for his work on capturing the Vietnam War. Riboud’s photograph The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet, caught international attention and remains an iconic, impactful depiction of the Vietnam War protests.
Aery is Now Open in the Gaithersburg Lotte Market
The owners of Ichiban, which has been in Gaithersburg since 1985, have opened Aery– a new restaurant in the Gaithersburg Lotte food court (located at Festival in Muddy Branch).
Crumbl Cookies Opening 10/1 in Rockville
Back in July, we let you know that Crumbl Cookies was planning to open in Rockville’s Federal Plaza. We just learned that their grand opening will be on Thursday 10/1 (next week). They will be offering free cookies on their “Free Cookie Day” on Friday, October 2nd.
Starting today (Tuesday, 9/22) popular Downtown Silver Spring restaurant, El Sapo, will reopen its indoor dining room.
The restaurant announced on social media that it’ll offer the full menu along with a few new items and will be adding a 20% service charge to every check for the security and welfare of staff.
Spirit Halloween Now Open in Rio
Back in January Pier 1 Imports announced it’ll be closing hundreds of stores across the country, including both MoCo locations (Rio and Rockville).
Bethesda Softworks Acquired by Microsoft in $7.5 Billion Dollar Deal
This morning, the head of Xbox announced that ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Rockville-based Bethesda Softworks, has been acquired by Microsoft. The head of Xbox stated that this deal will allow Bethesda’s games to be added to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC. The announcement also mentioned plans to bring Starfield, a highly anticipated game that is currently under design, to the Xbox.