Tilden Middle School principal Sapna Hopkins sent a letter to the school community regarding a “live ammunition round (bullet)” that was found on the floor of the boys’s physical education locker room.
Author: MCS Staff
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services responded to the scene of multiple parked cars that were struck by a moving vehicle at approximately 11pm on Sunday night in Montgomery Village.
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Forbes has released its annual “World’s Billionaires List” and ten Marylanders (including many from Montgomery County) have made the list. According to Forbes, “there are now more billionaires than ever: 2,781 in all, 141 more than last year and 26 more than the record set in 2021. They’re richer than ever, worth $14.2 trillion in aggregate, up by $2 trillion from 2023 and $1.1 trillion above the previous record, also set in 2021. Two-thirds of the list’s members are worth more than a year ago; only one fourth are poorer.” Below are the ten Maryland billionaires who made the list:
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Chelsea Zhu, a sophomore at Richard Montgomery High School and an Rockville, Md., resident, was awarded first prize in the 2024 Gaithersburg Book Festival poetry contest for high school students for her poem “Voyage to the Exoplanet.”
On Sunday, the Montgomery County Board of Elections responded to a tweet that showed a photo of a partially filled-in ballot that was provided to a voter in Takoma Park, explaining that “a voter was inadvertently handed a ballot that had been partially completed by another voter that should have been voided.”
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Updated to include the establishment opening in the space later this year.
In what seems to be unfortunate timing for an ice cream shop, Cold Stone Creamery will be closing its Olney location from June 1st until the fall of 2024 as it moved to a new location within the shopping center. We have since learned that Classic Bakery will be moving into the space that Cold Stone is vacating.
The Montgomery County Board of Education will hold a business meeting Thursday, May 23. This will be the first meeting at the Board’s new location, 15 W Gude Drive, Rockville. The meeting agenda is available below. The meeting will be cablecast live on Comcast Channel 34 (HD 1071), Verizon Channel 36, RCN Channel 89 and the MCPS website.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFRS) responded to a collision involving a school bus and an SUV on Fenton Street & Philadelphia Avenue on Monday morning.