GoFundMe, the world’s largest fundraising platform, has announced that Silver Spring, MD was the third most generous city for supporting individuals, causes, and organizations in 2023.
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KEEN Greater D.C., a nonprofit volunteer organization (based in Bethesda) that provides free on-to-one recreational activities to children and adults with disabilities, celebrates 32 years Sunday, June 2 at Timberlawn Local Park in Rockville (off Tuckerman Lane) from 11am-2:30pm.
The parents of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Abigail Bieber, a Montgomery County native who graduated from Walter Johnson High School in 2009, are still looking for answers in the murder-suicide that claimed their daughter’s life. Deputy Bieber was killed when she was fatally shot on January 29, 2022 by Detective Daniel Leyden- a member of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigations division who killed Bieber and then took his own life.
The Montgomery County Agricultural Fair returns Friday, August 9th and will run through Saturday, August 17th at the fairgrounds in Gaithersburg. This will be the 75th annual fair and its fourth year back after having to cancel for the first time in its 70+ year history in 2020 due to Covid restrictions. Below you’ll see a list of the free entertainment available within the fair (Note: there is an entrance fee to get into the fair):
The City of Rockville will host its annul “Rockville Pride” event on Sunday, June 2, from 2-5pm at Rockville Town Square. Addition details below:
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With the Department of Justice suing Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation, for “monopolizing markets across the live concert industry,” I wanted to take a look back at where I used to buy my tickets here in Montgomery County.
Per Montgomery County: County Executive Marc Elrich responded to the passage of the FY25 Operating and Capital Budgets by the County Council. Nearly 100 percent of the County Executive’s recommended operating budget was adopted. This $7.1 billion operating budget provided MCPS with its second-highest funding increase in history and made historic investments in providing more affordable housing, improving public safety, tackling climate change and ensuring equity. The FY25 budget does not include any tax increases. (more…)
Montgomery County Board of Education President Karla Silvestre and Dr. Monique Felder, Interim Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools have released the following statement regarding the FY 2025 operating budget: