Gaithersburg

MiyaJi Kebab & Rumali Rolls will be taking over 674 Quince Orchard Road, the location that was home to Pho Eatery in Gaithersburg’s Quince Orchard Plaza, according to Federal Realty’s tenant roster for Quince Orchard Plaza.

Pho Eatery and neighboring restaurant Urban Crawfish closed permanently in September of 2021. Both restaurants opened in 2016.


MoCo Government

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, January 19, 2022


Olney

F45 Training, an Australian franchisor and operator of fitness centers based in Austin, Texas, is opening its third Montgomery County location in Olney (current locations exist in Bethesda and Silver Spring, though Google lists Bethesda as temporarily closed). The fitness center will open in the 3,200 sf location that was previously home to Pet Valu in Olney’s Fair Hill Shopping Center (previously Olney Town Center) at 18100 Town Center Drive, Unit 8115.

Pet Valu announced that it would close all of its stores in late 2020, which included 6 Montgomery County locations (Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Olney, Potomac, and Rockville) affecting 43 local employees. The storefront has been vacant ever since, but the klnb commercial real estate website now lists F45 as the new tenant.


MoCo Government

893,213 people in Montgomery County are now fully vaccinated, which is 85% of the total population, according to CDC data (1,050,929 residents have received at least one dose).

The 85% metric was initially going to be used to end the indoor mask requirement in Montgomery County, but the Montgomery County Council, acting as the Board of Health, met on the morning of January 4th and voted to terminate the existing Board of Health regulation that was scheduled to end the indoor mask requirement when Montgomery County reached an 85% vaccination rate.


MCFRS

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services responded to a call regarding a person on the Metro tracks at the Forest Glen Metro station in Silver Spring.

When responders arrived they found an injured person on the tracks, but the person had not been struck by a train or shocked by the third rail, according to our public safety reporter Cordell Pugh.


MoCoSnow

The National Weather Service updated its maps overnight, increasing potential snow totals for most of the area.

Per the maps, all of MoCo is in the 1-2” range for snowfall tomorrow morning. The “reasonable worst case scenario” map is now at just about 2 inches so confidence is increasing for 1-2” all around.


MoCoSnow

Rain is expected to develop overnight and change to a very brief period of sleet before the changeover to snow around 5am on Thursday morning. It should snow for a few hours, leaving anywhere between a coating to 3 inches of snow.

In the latest maps from the National Weather Service, they are still expecting less than an inch for most of the area, but have raised the “reasonable worst case scenario” totals to 2-4 inches for MoCo.


Education

MCPS sent out a letter to the community announcing that 16 schools will begin virtual learning on Thursday, January 20th.

Earlier today, during a meeting with the Montgomery County Council, Interim Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight announced that additional schools would be going virtual and that the schools would be named in a message that would be sent out later in the day.