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Did you know that you can bike all the way from Montgomery County to Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania without ever leaving a Bike Trail?

By MCS Intern

By using both the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail (C&O Canal), as well as the Great Allegheny Passage Rail-Trail (dubbed “America’s Friendliest Long-Distance Rail-Trail”), you can bike all the way from the Southernmost point in Montgomery County all the way to the Steel City without ever needing to bike on a road. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail starts in Georgetown and follows the Potomac River to Cumberland, Maryland. Then the Great Allegheny Passage Rail-Trail goes the rest of the way from Cumberland, making its way past the Mason-Dixon Line, through the Appalachian Mountains and finishing up in Downtown Pittsburgh.

The Great Allegheny Passage Rail-Trail is 150 Miles, while the C&O Canal is 184.5 Miles making for a total distance of 334.5 Miles from DC to Pittsburgh.

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With MD School Districts Divided on Return to In-Person Instruction, MCPS Begins Discussions at Board Meeting

By MCS Intern

With MD School Districts Divided on Return to In-Person Instruction, MCPS Begins Discussions at Board Meeting

On Tuesday’s Montgomery County Board of Education virtual business meeting, Montgomery County Public School’s (MCPS) Superintendent Jack Smith twice restated that a date for the resumption of in-person instruction had not been decided on.

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Editorial: The Baltimore Ravens Are Not a Home Team and a Few More Thoughts on Fandom

By MCS Staff

Editorial: The Baltimore Ravens Are Not a Home Team and a Few More Thoughts on Fandom

Today is a pretty big day for football fans in our area. The Washington Football Team, who I consider our home team, is playing against the Baltimore Ravens.

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Wildfire Smoke Causes Grey Skies, Dimmer Sun

By MCS Staff

Have you wondered about the recent grey skies and dimmer Sun, especially around sunrise and sunset? The West Coast wildfires are to blame as jet streams have carried smoke caused by the fires in California, Oregon and Washington across the country, first hitting our area on Monday.

These past few days have been marked by hazy, grey skies despite little clouds and while the Sun is lower in the sky, it’s even possible to look directly at the Sun, though eye experts still recommend against it. Although to the eye, there has undergone some changes, air quality will not be affected and the smoke is too far above the ground.

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Mazza Gallerie to be Auctioned as a Foreclosure

By MCS Staff

We learned today that Mazza Gallerie in Friendship Heights has been put up for auction as a foreclosure. As first reported by the Washington Business Journal and Bisnow Washington, the owner of the property estimates to have lost around $533 million in revenue due to the current COVID crisis.

Mazza Gallerie, located in Friendship Heights, is technically on the Washington, DC side of town. Currently, the stores in the mall include Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, TJ Maxx, and an AMC movie theatre– most of which are temporarily closed at the moment.  Back in May, Neiman Marcus announced bankruptcy; there is speculation that this is a contributing factor to the current sale of the mall.

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