Back in May we let you know that Ruta Ukrainian Restaurant was coming to 4862 Cordell Ave in Bethesda, the former site of Momo Chicken. The restaurant opened last month and our very own Mr. MoCo recently stopped by to support the restaurant (video below).
The MCPS Social Studies team is hosting a series of Curriculum Night webinars for families to learn more about how social studies is taught in MCPS and how its curricula in kindergarten through 11th grade incorporate the history of various ethnic and cultural groups. The webinars will be held from 6:30–7:30 p.m. on the following dates:
The Washington Spirit announced today that Earvin “Magic” Johnson has joined the club’s investor group.
The second annual Taste of Rio will take place on Sunday, September 29th from 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm at Rio Lakefront in Gaithersburg. The inaugural Taste of Rio event was held on Sunday, October 15, 2023.
PRRI collected and aggregated data on religious diversity in America from 2014-2023, which contains 417,000 cases of Americans across all 50 states. The full data set was merged with county-level from the U.S. Census Bureau and the MIT Election Lab on 3,142 counties across all 50 states to produce a rigorous estimate of the religious demographics of every county in the United States with Montgomery County, MD coming out as the most religiously diverse in the country (Top 10 below).
At the Gaithersburg Mayor and City Council meeting on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Community Services Case Worker Geraldine Bernedo, Deputy City Attorney Frank Johnson, and the Tornado Response and Retool Gaithersburg Teams were recognized with Employee Recognition Awards for the second quarter of calendar year 2024.
The Maryland-National Capital Park Police have arrested Jose Ivan Cordova-Blanco of Hyattsville, Maryland, in connection to indecent conduct charges that occurred on Saturday, August 17, 2024, on Sligo Creek Trail in Takoma Park, Md. A mugshot was not provided in the press release.
On Tuesday, Dennis Hinnant, 30, of Silver Spring, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the second-degree murder of his wife, Taresha Pendarvis, after turning himself in to police and confessing to the crime in February 2023. (more…)
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has recognized Jian Feng Li of Silver Spring as the first state record holder for yellowedge grouper (Caulolatilus microps) in the Atlantic division.