More Than 180,000 Have Enrolled For 2022, An All-Time High
ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today announced that open enrollment will continue on Maryland Health Connection through February in light of the ongoing public health emergency. A record number of Marylanders—181,603—have enrolled in coverage for 2022 through the state’s health insurance marketplace. A surge of new enrollees fueled the 9% increase over a year ago.
The Montgomery County Council is now tentatively scheduled to vote next week on the proposed “vaccine passport” for businesses.
At today’s meeting, the Council held a public hearing and discussion on the resolution that would require restaurants, bars, fitness centers and other establishments to require customers to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before entering indoor areas, as proposed by County Executive Elrich.
Montgomery County announced today that the afternoon test kit distribution will now begin at 5pm.
Additionally, you can now get free at-home COVID-19 test kits delivered from COVIDtests.gov. Each household is eligible to order four free kits.
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Expands Summer SNAP Program To Support 50,000 Children in Low-Income Families, Increases Monthly SNAP Benefit For 27,000 Seniors Boosts Support For Food Banks, Launches New Nonprofit Business Accelerator Program
Press Release from the Office of Governor Hogan:
Performances:
Saturday June 20 @ 8pm
Metro to focus on root cause analysis and technology solutions prior to return of 7000-series railcars
Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Paul J. Wiedefeld said last week that he will not resume the placement of 7000-series trains into passenger service for about 90 days to allow Metro engineering and mechanical experts time to focus on root cause analysis and acquire technology to measure 7000-series wheelsets.
Eun Yang, who grew up in MoCo and is a morning news anchor at NBC Washington, is celebrating 20 years with the network. Yang was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in the right here in Montgomery County. She graduated from Paint Branch High School (1991) in Burtonsville and then earned a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland in 1995.
Per the Montgomery County Commission for Women, Yang began her broadcast journalism career while at the University of Maryland. She worked as a reporter for “Maryland Update,” a program on the University’s cable channel, and then moved to TV- 58 where she freelanced as a special projects reporter for Asian- Pacific American affairs. In 1995, she worked full-time as a WUSA-TV production assistant while finishing her last year at the University of Maryland. She was a “reporter trainee” for a year when the station started its weekend-morning newscast. She remained at WUSA-TV for six years, working her way up to a substitute anchor.
During this morning’s County Council meeting, Interim Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight and Board of Education Vice President Brenda Wolfe gave an update on MCPS’ COVID-19 response.
McKnight said that an announcement will be coming later today regarding more schools going virtual beginning this Thursday, January 20th. The schools were not listed during the meeting.
In yesterday’s update we mentioned the possibility of snow Wednesday into Thursday. “A few well-timed inches can throw a wrench into the Thursday morning commute.”
Today it looks like the possibility for a bit of snow on Thursday morning is there, but if it occurs it likely won’t be anything big.
Mr. Smoothie, located at 33 Maryland Ave G in Rockville Town Square, has closed permanently according to Google. The phone number has also been disconnected.
Mr. Smoothie, a smoothie and frozen yogurt bar chain, has most of its locations in New York with additional locations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina.
Update (Wednesday, 1/19, 9:10pm):
From WSSC: Linden Ave, Bethesda water main repair update 9pm 1/19- more new pipe going in the ground. Significant amount of pipe needed 4 this challenging repair. Water 💧 station – Maplewood Alta Vista Park (5209 Alta Vista Rd) until 11 pm. We apologize, we know this has been a long repair