Take a look below at an assortment of old school Maryland, Montgomery County, and DC Metro Area commercials we found on YouTube from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s!
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Maryland Amazon Fresh locations are offering steep discounts as the company prepares to close most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores nationwide this weekend (some stores have or will close earlier depending on inventory).
This weekend’s winter storm is shaping up to be a significant system for parts of the East Coast, but at this point, it is likely to remain just far enough offshore to limit impacts in central Maryland (including Montgomery County) and northern Virginia.
With cleanup efforts still underway from recent winter weather, the National Weather Service is flagging a potential curveball for parts of Maryland and Northern Virginia. Forecasters say there is a 20-30 percent chance for light snow Wednesday afternoon into the evening, which could coincide with the evening commute.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore announced the Lower Bills and Local Power Act as part of the Moore-Miller Administration’s 2026 legislative agenda, outlining proposals intended to reduce energy costs and improve grid reliability statewide.
The National Weather Service is closely monitoring the potential for a significant coastal storm this weekend, though confidence remains low on whether it will meaningfully impact central Maryland.
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The Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), a local nonprofit, announced that it will again offer free rides during Super Bowl weekend to help reduce impaired driving across the Washington metropolitan […]
WSSC Water is urging its approximately 1.9 million customers in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties to immediately limit water use to essential purposes only, citing extreme cold weather conditions.
Ahead of this past weekend’s winter storm, NBC4 meteorologist Chuck Bell set expectations for an extended regional shutdown as the system approached the DC area, saying he did not believe a single school district in the DMV would be open for even one day this week. On Monday, Bell doubled down on that assessment, saying there is a “very high chance that school closures could go a long way into the week.”
Maryland Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman announced the start of the state’s 2026 tax return filing season, with return processing beginning the week of January 26 and expected to ramp up on February 2.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general have called on xAI, which owns the X platform and the AI chatbot Grok, to take stronger steps to prevent the generation of nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.