Education

Lindzy Davis has been named the MCPS Elementary School Counselor of the Year. According to MCPS, Davis began her career in Baltimore City, where she discovered a passion for building relationships with students and removing obstacles to their success. After joining MCPS in 2018 at Earle B. Wood Middle School as a long-term substitute, she secured a permanent role at Georgian Forest Elementary School before arriving at Flower Hill in 2022.

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Event

Beautiful venue; great art, gifts and hand-crafted items; refreshments; and meet the award-winning painters, photographers, mixed media artists, ceramicists, fiber artists, and more – some 40 artists in all. It’s an extraordinary array of framed wall works, 3-d media including sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and fiber pieces, and unframed prints.

Among them, you’ll see:


MoCo Government

Montgomery County will host the 15th Annual Older Adults Safety Forum on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Park Senior Center in Silver Spring. The event, held both in person and via livestream, will feature presentations from the State’s Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, Adult Protective Services, and the Office of Consumer Protection. (more…)


Maryland

Comptroller Brooke Lierman announced that Maryland processed over 3 million tax returns and issued $2.7 billion in refunds during the 2025 tax season, significantly reducing processing times and increasing claims for the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits.

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Law

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined 23 attorneys general in filing a brief opposing the Trump administration’s freeze of USAID foreign aid funds, arguing it exceeds executive authority and harms states economically.

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