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Today (Friday, August 12) Is The First Day of the 2022 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair

By MCS Staff

Friday, August 12th is the first day of the 2022 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. The fair takes place August 12-20 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds (501 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg). Sitting on 62 acres, the Fair has more than 50 buildings that are filled with more than 5,000 animals every year. The Fair has animals, entertainment, food, commercial, home arts, arts and crafts exhibits, free entertainment, and much more for the whole family to enjoy. Visit www.mcagfair.com to purchase tickets. General Admission tickets are $12 online vs. $15 at the gate and children 11 and under don’t pay for fair admission. Additional information below, Per Montgomery County:

The annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair will be held over nine days for Aug. 12-20 at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center fairgrounds in Gaithersburg. The fair is operated by the Montgomery County Agricultural Center Inc., which was formed as a privately operated 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization in 1949. The fairgrounds are located at 501 Perry Parkway in Gaithersburg. General admission is $15 onsite and $12 online. Children 11-and-under are free. Parking on the fairgrounds site is $10. Free parking with shuttle bus service to the fairgrounds is available from nearby Lakeforest Mall at Lost Knife Road and Odenhal Ave. Special admission days will be Senior Day on Tuesday, Aug. 16, with free admission for attendees 62-and-over from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Military Day on Thursday, Aug. 18, with free admission all day for active military in uniform or with a valid military ID from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Beyond MoCo

Rideshare Driver From Montgomery County Killed in Fatal Shooting in Temple Hills

By MCS Staff

Per Prince George’s County Police: Detectives with our Homicide Unit are investigating a fatal shooting in Temple Hills. The victim is 55-year-old Nesredin Esleiman of Silver Spring. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case.

On August 10, 2022, at approximately 6:20 am, patrol officers were called to the 5400 block of Chesterfield Drive for a welfare check. Once on scene, officers located the victim inside of a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound(s). He was pronounced dead on the scene. The preliminary investigation revealed Esleiman was operating as a rideshare driver at the time of the murder.

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MoCo History

‘The Forest F. Crown Family and Dairy Farm History in Montgomery County’ Will Be Presented Online by Montgomery History Starting Monday, Aug. 15

By MCS Staff

In honor of the 2022 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair that will be operating in Gaithersburg from Aug. 12-20, Montgomery History will be looking back at the history of a local dairy farm with guests from the MOOseum.

Bill Duvall, Don Barron and Frank Cornelius from the King Barn Dairy MOOseum will lead the presentation on the agricultural story of dairy farming in Montgomery County through a century’s worth of history of the Crown Farm in Gaithersburg. The farm is now the site of a mixed used development.

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Maryland

‘Maryland Tax-Free Week’ Will Be August 14-20

By MCS Staff

“Shop Maryland Tax-Free Week” will return from Aug. 14-20— just in time for back-to-school shopping. During the week, any single qualifying article of clothing or footwear priced at $100 or less—regardless of how many items are purchased in the same transaction—will be exempt from the State’s six percent sales tax. The first $40 of any backpack purchase is also tax free.

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MoCo Government

Election Certification Delayed; 102 Additional Ballots Remain to Be Counted

By MCS Staff

Montgomery County’s Acting Election Director, Alysoun McLaughlin, released the following statement at 11:19pm on Thursday, August 11:

“I apologize for this error and for not identifying it until today, or the remaining ballots could have been counted earlier. I want to emphasize that Maryland’s comprehensive precertification audit was designed to identify issues like this before an election is certified to ensure the accuracy of the results. It worked as intended.”

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Bethesda

WSSC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for Cabin John/Glen Echo Area of Montgomery County

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WSSC Water Customers in Impacted Area Should Bring Water to a Rolling Boil for 1 Minute Before Any Consumption

As a precaution, WSSC Water has issued a Boil Water Advisory (BWA) for customers in a portion of Montgomery County following a water main break Thursday evening on a 12-inch pipe that runs along MacArthur Boulevard in Cabin John/Glen Echo area.

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Business

Rockville’s Choice Hotels International Completes Acquisition of Radisson Hotels

By MCS Staff

Choice Hotels today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the franchise business, operations and intellectual property of Radisson Hotels Americas for approximately $675 million from Radisson Hotel Group. The company has been located in Montgomery County since 1968, when it moved into a campus of three separate neighboring buildings it occupied on Columbia Pike in Silver Spring. Choice Hotels moved to its current headquarters at 1 Choice Hotels Circle in Rockville in 2013. The company will move down the street to Pike & Rose upon the completion of a new 276,000 SF building.

With the close of this transaction, Choice Hotels International has added approximately 67,000 rooms, expanding its presence in the higher revenue upper upscale and upscale full-service segments, and bolstering its core upper-midscale hospitality segment, particularly in the West Coast and Midwest of the United States.

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Rockville

Proposal For 105 Townhouses in Rockville Area Currently Occupied By Vacant Office Buildings

By MCS Staff

Missing Middle Jefferson, LLC has submitted an application for consideration by the Montgomery County Planning Board for the property located at 2115 East Jefferson Street. The Applicant proposes to demolish the existing building and redevelop the property with 110 residential units including townhomes and stacked townhomes. The Property is located within the employment center along Executive Boulevard and East Jefferson Street, within the western portion of the White Flint area.  The property is one record lot. The Net Tract Area of the property is 239,218 SF.  Today, it is occupied by a vacant office building of approximately 139,000 SF.

Per documents submitted in the application to Montgomery Planning: The property is currently developed with a multi-level office building and a large, surrounding surface parking lot.  The office building has been vacant for some time and both the former owner and the current owner sought either commercial tenants or conversion of the existing office building into a residential use without success.  Based on the high vacancy rates for aging suburban office buildings such as this, the existence of superior office locations in Bethesda and along Rockville Pike, and the acute demand for new housing, Applicant has determined that is in the public interest to redevelop the Property with townhomes and stacked townhomes. 

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Olney

Lone Oak and Carmen’s Team Up To Offer ‘TIPSY POPS’ Starting Friday at the Olney Brewery

By MCS Staff

“We wanted to create a COOL collaboration with a great, long-standing local business – and chose Carmen’s for the fabulous products there,  as well as the owner’s (Jason Mandler) dedication to the community.” a representative from the brewery told us.

Carmen’s Italian Ice started when New Jersey native Jason Mandela wanted to introduce homemade gourmet Italian Ice to the Washington DC area. It has operated in Montgomery County for over 20 years, opening its Rockville location at 1115 Nelson St. in 2001. A second location opened in Olney in 2021 at the former Rita’s location at 3233 Spartan Rd.

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DC Sports

Washington Wizards To Celebrate 25 Years of ‘Wizards’ With Classic Jerseys This Season

By MCS Staff

The Wizards will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their rebrand from Bullets to Wizards this upcoming season with throwback jerseys. The team is bringing back the “classic” jerseys worn by former players like Michael Jordan, Gilbert Arenas, Antawn Jamison, and more, between 1997-2011.

In November 1995, owner Abe Pollin announced he was changing the team’s nickname, because the Bullets has acquired violent overtones that made him increasingly uncomfortable over the years give them high homicide and crime rate in Washington D.C. in the early 90s. Some say the name change also had to do with the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a close friend of then-Wizards owner Abe Pollin, who was assassinated at a Tel Aviv peace rally. Four days after his funeral, Pollin made the announcement that his team would no longer go by the name “Bullets,” after 32 years of sporting the moniker.

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Business

Hughes is Coming To New 140,000SF Building on Montgomery College Germantown Campus

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A joint-venture between Minkoff Development and South Duvall has signed a lease with Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) to build a 140,000 square foot build-to-suit project on Montgomery College’s Germantown Campus. The campus currently is home to the Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science and Technology at Montgomery College (PIC MC) with Holy Cross Germantown Hospital as its anchor tenant. Located at 19710 Observation Drive in Germantown, Maryland, adjacent to the Hughes headquarters complex (11717 Exploration Lane), the new high-tech manufacturing building will house production of Hughes satellite broadband and networking equipment. Full press release below:

“This new facility reflects our long-standing commitment to Montgomery County, as a local employer and business leader for more than 50 years and will help Hughes advance our mission of connecting the unconnected around the world with innovative satellite and networking solutions,” said Jim Muir, III, vice president, corporate real estate at Hughes. “We look forward to inviting students from PIC MC to learn and grow with us and continuing to engage with the community where so many of our employees live and work.”

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