Greg Mullenholz, principal at Ashburton Elementary School in Bethesda, is this year’s winner of the Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony Award.
The Mark Mann award is presented annually to an MCPS administrator who has shown exceptional performance in promoting academic excellence, positive human relations and community outreach.
Severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon (Thursday, June 2nd) with the main threat being the potential for damaging wind gusts. Multiple rounds of storms are expected starting approximately 2pm, with the greatest risk this afternoon/evening, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures are expected to reach the upper 80s and feel like 95° early this afternoon until the thunderstorms roll into town. The risk of thunderstorms will remain until the late evening.
Bento Express will be opening in the Woodmoor Shopping Center (10141 Colesville Road) in Silver Spring later this year. The new fast-casual restaurant will be taking over the location that was formerly home to Sprint, between the UPS Store and Subway.
While we don’t know much about the restaurant at this time, we have been told that it will be serving teriyaki chicken, sushi, and bento boxes, which could fare well in the area with the lunch and after-school crowd from nearby Montgomery Blair High School.
A few months back the Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery (SSSM), announced that it was the recipient of a $25,000 scholarship in the name of Richard “Richie” Anderson. The scholarship is provided by TruistBank/Wealth Management and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and will be used to provide access to the SSSM for youth programming. Richie Anderson grew up in the Sandy Spring community and attended Sherwood High School where he excelled as a student-athlete in Football, Basketball, and Track & Field.
In football, he received All-State, Prep All-American, Washington Post Offensive Player of the Year, and USA Today Maryland Player of the Year Honors. He finished his high school career gaining over 3,500 yards. In basketball led the county in scoring, averaging 22 points per game as a junior and averaged 23 points per game as a senior. In track, Anderson competed in the 100 meters, 200 meters and high jump, where he received All-county honors as a senior.
Earlier this week, on Monday evening, multiple people on social media shared screenshots of KKK-related images that were posted on the review page for Damascus High School on Apple Maps. A search for the high school leads you to a page that allows users to read and write reviews for the searched location. In this case, a user uploaded the hate symbols under the reviews, which Apple pulls from Yelp.
In a message to the Damascus community, principal Kevin Yates wrote, “I was informed yesterday afternoon that an Internet app brings up hate symbols when Damascus High School is entered. I alerted MCPS Security and our Technology Specialists and was advised to go to the app and report the images as hate symbols and request that they be removed.” The symbols were removed less than 24 hours later.
Per MD Lottery: The “gut feeling” that convinced a 23-year-old Rockville resident to visit a 7-Eleven last week led to the largest Lottery win of his life. His $25,000 prize didn’t come from the tickets he purchased, however, but from a free Pick 5 ticket that he never expected to come his way. “I play the Lottery every once in a while,” the university student explained to Lottery officials on Tuesday. “When I woke up that morning, I had no plan to (buy Lottery games), but later in the day something told me to buy some tickets.”
Whatever compelled him to buy tickets wasn’t specific about the game, so the Montgomery County man picked out three from a range of game types. “I got a scratch-off, a Powerball and Keno.” Along with his selection, the winner left 7-Eleven #23693 in Rockville with a free Pick 5 ticket awarded as part of a Try Pick 5 promotion. Through June 5, players who purchase any Lottery game other than scratch-offs could receive a randomly awarded free 50-cent straight Pick 5 ticket. “That extra ticket got me thinking that maybe it was my winner,” he said, “that it was supposed to happen.”
A fatal crash occurred on Northbound Old Georgetown Road (MD-187) near Cheshire Drive and the Wildwood Shopping Center in Bethesda at approximately 4:05PM Wednesday, according to our traffic and public safety reporter Cordell Pugh.
The crash involved an 18 year old cyclist being hit by a motorist, according to Fox 5 DC’s Allison Papson. Per her tweet, the driver remained on the scene and name of the 18-year-old cyclist will be released following proper notification of the family.
Hearing Will Also Examine the NFL’s Response and the Need for Legislative Reform
Press Release: Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent letters to Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), and Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Commanders, requesting they appear before the Committee at a hearing on June 22, 2022.
Per the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Maryland Division: Daniel Morozewicz, age 38, of Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of child pornography.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Acting Special Agent in Charge Selwyn Smith of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore; Frederick County State’s Attorney J. Charles Smith; and Frederick County Sheriff Charles A. “Chuck” Jenkins.
Last November we let you know that it was likely Chipotle would be taking over the Little Caesers location in Briggs Chaney Marketplace. That move has now been confirmed, but a projected opening date is not currently available.
Little Caesars closed the Briggs Chaney Marketplace location at the beginning of the summer in 2021 and many local residents have wondered what would be taking its place. We are told the location could possibly be a walk-up/drive-thru only Chipotle, which isn’t common in the area.
The MCPS website now contains information for students, staff, parents, and community members, but it only started 27 years ago. Below you’ll see a brief history of “MCPS Web”, courtesy of MCPS:
March 14, 1995: In the beginning there was a DEC Alpha server running the Unix operating system and the Netscape web server. David Kreisberg, with the help of a small group of brilliant Blair High School students, brought the server to life and created the first web pages in March, 1995.